Visual Composer is the number one selling plugin at CodeCanyon, passing the 20,000 sales milestone in March 2014. Developed by WP Bakery, the drag and drop plugin is bundled with more than 300 premium themes on ThemeForest...In this review, I will show you what Visual Composer can do, how it stacks up to the hype, and walk you through how you can use the plugin to create stylish content and unique pages.

In this article we’ll take a look at how Javascript minification works, how we can build it into our workflow and what the pros and cons of minifying are.

Beyond giving the look and feel, a WordPress theme can be extended in many ways as well. You can build new functionality with plugins, but in this post, we’re looking at WordPress functions that can be handy for your theme. You just have to put these functions in the functions.php file of your theme for the effect to take place.

Secure your WordPress site with two-factor authentication, using this simple plugin for Google's Authenticator app. This tutorial will walk you through setting up the Google Authenticator WordPress plugin for your own sites.

This collection of free typography tools will prove to be exceptionally useful for anyone who creates digital interfaces.

SEO (or search engine optimisation) helps your website communicate clearly with search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. While modern search engines c...

Custom taxonomies were introduced in WordPress 3.0 as a core feature and allow you to group posts together with more than just tags and categories. For example, if you run a website about books or movies, you could use a custom taxonomy named “Genre,” and if you write about sports you could use a taxonomy called “Sport.” In this post, we’ll look at what custom taxonomies are, how to use them and how you can create your own.

PHPMyAdmin is a free, web-based database client that can simplify your WordPress administration. In this tutorial you'll learn why you might want to use it, and how to install it and secure it.

As we move into 2015 it’s the perfect time to address “The State of Responsive Web Design”.

Ever wanted to add an external link with nofollow attribute to navigation menus? Learn how to add nofollow links in WordPress navigation menus.

So what does it take to create an accessible website? In this post I’ll go over some of the requirements in the WordPress Codex for meeting accessibility guidelines, as well as themes and plugins for improving your site’s accessibility.

It’s here! We’ve finally left the tumultous year of 2014 and as we usher in a new beginning with the new year, we have new hope, wishes, and certainly new tools to try out. In this post, we have put together a handful of perfect tools and plugins to get this rolling. From a handy online test tool to something for easy access to mobile design patterns, there are quite a few choices to get your 2015 on the right track.

Here’s a list of three free interactive tutorials that can help you learn Git. They are organized in order of difficulty, and I suggest using them sequentially from top to bottom. Developers who use the following tutorials should be able to get their Git knowledge up to an adequate level.

Using a WordPress plugin to enhance your users' audio visual experience on your site is a great way to showcase your podcast or just make it more appealing.

Our discussion about LESS continues–this time we’re going to look into LESS Mixins. With Mixins we can define a group of style declarations once and then reuse them throughout the stylesheet. It helps keep our code DRY as well as producing CSS in a more efficient way, particularly when dealing with complex CSS3 syntax. LESS provides different types of Mixins with their very own purpose; they can be straight-forward Mixins, or they can work as a (sort of) Function.

Setting up a local environment for WordPress is a common need for developers. Since everything runs on your computer, loading times are significantly lower and you can safely test things before you try them out in a live production environment. In this guide I’ll give you easy to follow, instructions on how to set up Vagrant you can copy and paste. We’ll go from zero to a fully functioning WordPress installation, so let’s dig in!

In this post I’ll show you how I offload all of my media onto Amazon S3 using WordPress and some plugins. I’ll also show you how you can use Amazon CloudFront to serve your files via a CDN for faster loading times and latency across the board.

We have a pretty good amount of stuff going on here, with HTML tools, JavaScript libraries and even articles for you to get learnin’, something that always comes in handy one way or another.

Some of the best CDN providers around, that can dramatically decrease bandwidth consumption and speed up content delivery.

Single page designs can be an excellent technique for tackling smaller websites, even those that you might not think could ever be done without multiple pages.