WordPress Security: The Ultimate 32-Step Checklist

Back when I was starting out as a web designer and developer, my biggest problem was getting stuff to work the way I wanted it to. I was concerned more about getting things (mostly) working as I expected them to be. Getting things to look snazzy was usually one of my primary goals when finishing a website. WordPress security was the least of my concerns. Hacking was something I read about, not something I expected to happen to me. SQL injection, cross-site scripting, elevation of privileges and critical security vulnerabilities were just buzzwords in tech news.

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9 Fresh Javascript Resources for Web Developers

JavaScript is growing fast, it’s becoming more native, but most importantly — it’s becoming more stable. It’s time for us to share another awesome list of resources for our fellow web developers.

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Responsive Google Map

How to make a responsive google map from the code

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A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks

Background The Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module (currently a W3C Last Call Working Draft) aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, and align boxes.

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How to Create Responsive Tables in WordPress That Don’t Suck

HTML tables, once commonly used for webpage layouts, are now a layout headache for many web designers. Tables often work best with fixed widths, which means they can wreak havoc on otherwise pixel-perfect responsive website designs. So what’s a WordPresser to do? The first thing to do with tables is to use them sparingly. Tables should be used for tabular data and nothing else.

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25 Top-Rated Plugins for Winning the Fight Against WordPress Spam

There’s been a huge explosion in hacking attempts involving spam in recent months, including everything from exploiting XSS, brute force, XML-RPC, CSRF, and DDoS. Unfortunately, spam is a fact of life when you have a WordPress website. Since the CMS is so popular, it naturally attracts an increased number of hacking attempts since there are more sites to infect than any other platforms.

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WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Custom Fields and Metadata

The default Page and Post content types in WordPress are enough for many websites, but if you really want to harness the powers of WordPress as a CMS it’s time to start learning about custom fields and metadata. This is the sixth post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Beginners tutorials, which introduced you to the fundamentals of developing websites with WordPress, how to get started coding with PHP, and building themes and plugins.

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How to Add a Hello Bar to Your WordPress Site (and Why Everyone is Doing It)

Want to boost your conversion rates? That’s what hello bars are all about. Whether you want to add email subscribers, advertise special deals, drive traffic to a landing page, or make a site-wide announcement, hello bars get the job done.

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8 Completely Free Ways to Steal WPMU DEV’s WordPress SuperPowers

When I started out in WordPress I was broke. Not just broke, broke-ass. Newly married, new baby, $6.57 in the bank, no paycheck coming in and starting a new online business. I needed to start and grow a site. I needed the support of a community. I needed it all at top quality. And I needed it all completely for free.

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