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How to Use WordPress Pages and Posts
Pages and posts are the essential building blocks of a WordPress site—the tools for creating the content that draws visitors and builds a brand’s online presence. Pages and posts are created in similar ways, but they serve very different purposes, and knowing when and how to use them is the key to developing a WordPress…
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How to Use Bootstrap in WordPress: A Helpful Guide
The average smartphone user spends more than three hours a day online, and nearly half of all smartphone users check their phones before they even get out of bed. More people now access the Internet on mobile devices than on desktop or laptop computers for shopping, entertainment, as well as information – and to reach…
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How to Use WordPress Homepage Settings
WordPress is the world’s leading content management system and site builder, powering about a third of the world’s personal and business websites. Free to use and endlessly customizable with free and premium themes created by WordPress developers, WordPress allows new users and experienced developers alike to create websites to meet all kinds of specialized needs.…
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Why You Should Incorporate a WordPress Slider on Your Website
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, creative professional or service provider, your WordPress website should showcase the best you have to offer in a way that is easy for visitors to see. Sliders – also called slideshows or carousels – allow WordPress site runners to place an automated, rotating gallery of high profile content anywhere on a…
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WordCamp US, State of the Word, and the Future of WordPress
This weekend over 20 members of the Bluehost team attended WordCamp US in Nashville Tennessee. Over a thousand people attended this camp from all over the world to enjoy community and interactive sessions (and surely some hot chicken). Introducing WordPress Pro During camp, we introduced our new hosting product, WordPress Pro. This product revolutionizes the way…
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WordCamp US: All Roads Lead to Nashville
We are only two days away from WordCamp US—the largest WordPress conference in the United States. WordCamp US will take place in Nashville, Tennessee for its second year on December 7-9, 2018. As huge advocates of open source, we are stoked to be involved with the event again this year! WordCamps are open source conferences…
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Gutenberg: Understanding Blocks in the New Editor
Sometime in 2018, WordPress expects to release Gutenberg, the first major change to its longstanding TinyMCE content editor in years. Named for Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, Gutenberg promises to revolutionize the way content is created in WordPress and make online publishing even easier. The Gutenberg editing interface is based on a system…
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What Does Gutenberg Mean for Developers?
Gutenberg, the first new content editor for WordPress in over a decade, is ready to roll out sometime in mid or late 2018 with the release of WordPress 5.0, and its arrival is already being met with nearly equal parts of anticipation and dread among WordPress developers and designers. Gutenberg promises to make it easier…
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Gutenberg 101: Learning to Navigate The New WordPress Editor
As a free, open source content management system, WordPress continues to excel in providing its users with innovative tools that can help provide success for their online web presence. WordPress is changing the game of website building with the new Gutenberg content editor that is set to launch in November as part of the WordPress…
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GutenTalks: Core Developer William Earnhardt
As we are counting down the days until the new Gutenberg editor will merge into WordPress core, users are eager to learn about how the editor will change the WordPress experience. Core Developer William Earnhardt pens a letter sharing his thoughts on accessibility, favorite features about Gutenberg, and what he learned working behind the scenes…