A WordPress Beginner tests: gallery plugins

With such a huge range of optional plugins available for WordPress, it can be hard to find one that’s just suited to you. In this article, our resident WordPress beginner tries his hand at the most popular gallery plugins to see how easy they are to use, and who might appreciate them the most.

Creating your own Shortcodes in a WordPress theme

When you’re constantly creating content, every little bit of time you can save is useful. With the right settings, a good shortcode can make it easy to duplicate your content, insert complex HTML code and more all with just one word in your content. In this article we’ll show you how to create a shortcode from scratch to speed up your workflow.

How to modify your theme safely using a Child Theme

Everybody likes to experiment with a theme and make it their own, but sometimes making deeper CSS changes can damage the theme, or a theme update will render all your changes useless, forcing you to reapply them over and over again with each update. In this tutorial we’ll look at how we can implement a child theme that lets you make changes to all the major files without risking damaging the base code of the theme.

MeetGavernWP and our other themes have been updated!

Get in the know of all the features, fixes and other changes in our premium themes and GavernWP Framework that make them compatible with the great new options included in WordPress 4.0, the latest release from the WordPress community.

WordPress Newbie Trials Part 2 – Posts and content creation

After successfully installing the quickstart package in the last installment, our WordPress newbie takes a look at posts and finds out that WordPress content creation can be both easy and hard at the same time.

What is new in WordPress 4.0 for Developers?

With WordPress 4.0 upon us, many people will already be aware of the major changes and features available to the average user. But what about developers? WordPress 4.0 brings with it a host of changes that will be of use to the development community; in this article, we take a look at some of the more important changes and what they mean.

Trials of a WordPress Newbie

People like to say that WordPress and Joomla are easy, and that’s true. Assuming, of course, that you are comparing them to making a website from scratch using your own PHP, CSS and HTML skills. Otherwise, they are rather tough to learn, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. In this series our resident newbie tries his hardest to get to grips with a CMS, starting with, as you would expect, with the installation…

Speed-up your website with these simple .htaccess tricks

The modern internet is fast-paced, and your website needs to be as fast as possible if it’s to attract repeat viewings. In this guide, we’ll examine how you can use a simple .htaccess file to provide a significant speed boost for your site that’s sure to keep your visitors happy!

News Show Pro plugin as a shortcode

With the introduction of our page-based frontpage in our latest themes, we’ve made some changes to News Show Pro to let you place your product showcases anywhere you like in your content with a shortcode! In this article, we’ll look at how the shortcode works, and go in-depth with a few of the available options.

Adding additional Social Share buttons to Joomla articles

The Social API included with our Gavern Framework offers a robust set of sharing options for the most popular social networks on the web, but what if you want to share your articles on alternative social networks? In this guide, we’ll show you exactly how to do it with two other oft-requested networks, LinkedIn and Pocket.