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Most of What You “Know” About WordPress Typography is Wrong (premium.wpmudev.org) Many WordPress designers seem to think typography is nothing more than choosing the right plugin to get a bunch of “cool fonts” onto their pages and posts. That’s understandable because almost anyone might get that idea after reading the typical typography-related blog posts out there.
But the art of typography is about so much more than that, and the power of good typography can make a huge difference in the way visitors react to our WordPress websites.
Joseph Herbrandson on The Most Common Attacks Facing Today’s Websites (wptavern.com) Joseph Herbrandson of Sucuri published an excellent article listing the most common attacks today’s websites are facing. Herbrandson does a good job of explaining the attacks without inundating the reader with technical jargon. He also links to WordPress items that are relevant to each type of attack.
Choosing a WordPress Theme Framework – the Ultimate Guide (premium.wpmudev.org) As well as conventional theme frameworks, other products and code bases have emerged. which do a similar job to a traditional framework, such as code libraries and starter themes. These can significantly speed up development for experienced developers, but aren’t always as user-friendly for people who prefer not to code.
In this article we’ll look at theme frameworks and what they are and compare 10 of the most popular ones available.
What Most Web Designers Have Wrong About WordPress Theme Hierarchy (www.codeinwp.com) In this article we want to start by focusing on the key mistake that most would-be WordPress theme designers make when it comes to working with the WordPress theme template hierarchy, then go on to give you a broad overview of how WordPress themes should come together.
3 Common WordPress FTP Upload Errors and How to Fix Them (premium.wpmudev.org) If the only files you can connect to via FTP are your local ones, or your FTP client disconnects frequently, then you’re going to want to take a seat and pay some attention for the next couple of minutes.
In this Weekend WordPress Project we’ll look at the fixes available for the three most common FTP issues.
How To Integrate An Existing Forum Into WordPress (www.elegantthemes.com) Building community on your website is a must nowadays. Outside of traditional comments, you can accomplish this by building a social network. And one great way to do that is to create a forum. What if you want to integrate one of these old forums that has dozens, thousands, or even many millions of users and comments—or any existing forum for that matter—into WordPress?