The weirdest piece of email I’ve gotten all month was courtesy of Brian Krogsgard and the Post Status newsletter: Automattic (owner of WordPress.com, Jetpack, Akismet, WooCommerce…) has just bought blogging giant Tumblr.

If you’re trying to choose between SiteGround and Bluehost in 2019, this is going to be your easiest decision of the year.

In this article, we explore WordPress user metadata, usually called simply WordPress user meta.

In PHP, conditions are the core of conditional statements such as if-statements, and of certain other control structures like while() loops.

This video and text Quick Guide explains how to prevent browser caching of CSS files in WordPress. The CSS cache busting tricks here will work outside WordPress, too: you’ll just need your own method of adding query strings.

In this text and video Quick Guide, we’ll explain how to deactivate a WordPress plugin via FTP.

This article explains what WordPress frameworks are, and why I generally recommend against relying on them.

If you’re trying to choose between Bluehost vs. GoDaddy in 2019, there’s one very clear right answer:

WordPress’s get_queried_object() function has the distinction of being, I think, the most useful core function in WordPress that I didn’t know about for the longest time.

I’ll be honest: Since Gutenberg launched, I’ve used the Classic Editor plugin to disable it on every site I work on. I do this for a few reasons: