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LESS with WordPress development

By Jin - 1

What is LESS? LESS is a “dynamic stylesheet language” or technically a CSS preprocessor. This means that LESS supports and extends the CSS language, makes CSS become more flexible using variables, functions and classes. LESS arises as one of the popular CSS preprocessors, along with two others: Sass and Stylus.

Why LESS?

We all have to agree that CSS is an easy to learn and use, especially when it comes to theme and web development. The introduction of CSS3 has made things better and greater. However, sometime we found ourselves repeat code over and over again all over the stylesheet, and this is not what we usually call “Don’t repeat yourself”. Thus, whenever a change needs to be done, it has to be done in different places.

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All you know about WordPress Text Widget

By Jin - 0

Working with WordPress, we all have to agree that Widgets, among other factors, are the key to make WordPress powerful. And among all those widgets, my favourite one is Text Widget. This is also one of the most commonly used WordPress widgets.

Text Widget is amazing in term of functionality: it supports HTML, shortcode, embeds & JavaScript, adds text, audio, video, images and a lot more. The widget can be placed anywhere on your site as long as that area allows widgets.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through all the main functions that you can do with Text Widget.

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How to handle a WordPress Security Attack

By Joe - 4

Today we will be taking a look at what steps you can take should you discover your WordPress site is undergoing a security attack, as well as how you can start the recovery process to bring your site back online and restore its content.

While no one who has suffered from forced downtime, or had their site hacked wants to hear that it could have been prevented, or at least had the effects mitigated with a few free plugins, we will also take this opportunity to highlight a few key steps that can be taken to prevent such an attack succeeding in the future.

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8 Free Useful WordPress Plugins for your website

By Jin - 2

There are thousands of plugins out there, both free and premium, that could help to push up performance for our WordPress site and make life easier. Today I would like to share with you 8 simple yet useful plugins that you can count on for your site. All developed by our staff and free to use.

I also share the code that I have used, in case you want to build one for your own based on the WordPress guide.

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Favicon in WordPress

By Jin - 0

What is favicon? According to Wikipedia we know that:

A favicon /ˈfævɪkɒn/ (short for Favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, tab icon or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more[1] small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page.

Technically, favicon is an icon, a visual identity for your web page.

In this article, I will review useful information about favicon, its characteristics, how to design and install favicon for your WordPress site. Let’s start with a question: why should we use favicon?

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