An out-of-date copyright year in a site’s footer is a common sight, especially early in a new year. It happens because people don’t take advantage of WordPress’s server-side language, PHP, to auto-update the copyright year in WordPress. Instead they’re manually changing it. But it’s a complex and menial task, so it’s easy to put off.

Want to know how to include a JavaScript file onto your WordPress site? Here, we explain and demo an awesome WordPress function called wp_enqueue_script() that is the correct way to include JavaScript files in WordPress.

Over on Thoughtful Code, I wrote about why even in 2018 I’d choose PHP to make a new software application in. The heart of my reasoning is the conclusion:

I’ve written here on WPShout about PHP namespaces before. But that article is old, and lacks among other things the fun expanding brain meme that our friend Steve Grunwell included in his post. Steve’s post has other reasons to recommend it, aside from the dope meme game.

Before we look at how to register WordPress custom shortcodes, let’s be clear: If there’s one thing Gutenberg is about to kill, it’s the use of WordPress shortcodes in content creation.

I thought Nashville was so fun for WordCamp US last year that I just had to get back before December. ;p

WordPress plugins can cause all kinds of errors: 500 internal server errors, PHP parse errors (also called syntax errors), errors that simply whitescreen your entire site, and more.

We here at WPShout are thinking hard about making a complete paid course that gets anyone interested in WordPress development totally up to speed on PHP. And so far on the site, we’ve covered two of the most important PHP data types, objects and arrays.

This introduction to PHP output buffering and its uses in WordPress contains a few helpful resources:

Your first million dollars. The game-winning catch. A guest post in Smashing Magazine. These are life’s moments of pure success, and David had one of them this week. We’ll keep you posted on the other two.