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    Author: Topher DeRosia

    Topher is an accomplished programmer, having written his own content management systems and managed some very large websites. He loves to help people and believes playing with WordPress is fun. Topher lives in Michigan, USA.

    What Are Must Use Plugins in WordPress?

    What Are Must Use Plugins in WordPress? The plugin system is one of the most powerful aspects of WordPress. The ability to extend the functionality…

    Topher DeRosia August 25, 2021
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    Super Charge Your WordPress Categories With Free Plugins

    Recently I was thinking through the process of making a Travel website. We would have blog posts about specific resorts and then a custom taxonomy…

    Topher DeRosia May 13, 2021
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    Custom Metaboxes in WordPress with Metabox.io

    Custom Metaboxes in WordPress with Metabox.io

    Custom fields have been around for more than a decade, and custom metaboxes nearly as long. Although, it can feel like they’re fading from usefulness…

    Topher DeRosia January 14, 2021
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    Theme and Plugin Dependencies in WordPress

    Theme and Plugin Dependencies in WordPress with TGM Plugin Activation

    There are many tasks in WordPress that are extremely repetitive. Things that get coded over and over again by developers, even though the result is…

    Topher DeRosia December 10, 2020
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    Three Great WordPress Utility Plugins

    Three Great WordPress Utility Plugins

    It’s no secret that one of the reasons for the great success of WordPress is its extensibility via plugins. WordPress.org hosts over 57,000 plugins alone. …

    Topher DeRosia September 23, 2020
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    Intro To Local WordPress Development With LocalWP

    Intro To Local WordPress Development With LocalWP

    When I started my career as a web developer, we would use a text editor to write HTML in local files, and then use File…

    Topher DeRosia September 10, 2020
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    Create A Staff Listing with Custom Post Types in WordPress

    Create A Staff Listing with Custom Post Types in WordPress

    One of the most significant turning points in the history of WordPress is when version 3.0 came out in 2010. It included Custom Post Types,…

    Topher DeRosia May 7, 2020
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    Website Performance: The Unexpected Benefit of Security

    Website Performance: The Unexpected Benefit of Security

    Several years ago I suddenly got an automated message from my web host telling me that my account was using too many resources, and I…

    Topher DeRosia March 23, 2020
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    How to Find a Translatable WordPress Theme

    How to Find and Translate WordPress Themes

    If you’re building a multilingual WordPress site, you need a multilingual WordPress theme. You don’t necessarily need a theme that has been translated, but you…

    Topher DeRosia May 10, 2018
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    WordPress: The Difference Between Tags And Categories

    WordPress: The Difference Between Tags And Categories

    Out of the box, WordPress offers two different ways to organize Posts; Categories and Tags. The technical names for all these are taxonomies. “What’s a…

    Topher DeRosia February 1, 2017
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    Giving Back To WordPress. What's In It For Me?

    Giving Back To WordPress. What’s In It For Me?

    Giving back to WordPress is something that’s widely encouraged. Matt Mullenweg famously suggested that companies making money from WordPress should give 5% of each employee’s…

    Topher DeRosia January 19, 2016
    3 Comments

    The Redirection Plugin Solves WordPress 301 and 404 Errors

    Are you moving your WordPress site to a new URL or directory? Are you updating some of your site’s permalinks? If so, you need the…

    Topher DeRosia June 30, 2015
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    Absolute Beginners Guide to Git

    The Absolute Beginners Guide to Git

    I was aware of the purported joys of git long before I experienced it. I avoided it because I was a solo developer and it was…

    Topher DeRosia May 1, 2015
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    Absolute Beginners Guide to PHP Arrays

    Arrays are wonderful ways to organize and use data in PHP. Quite simply, an array is a list. Here’s a quick example of an array…

    Topher DeRosia April 14, 2015
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    Pros and Cons of the Make Theme for WordPress

    Last May I noticed an announcement from a friend of mine that his company, The Theme Foundry, had released a new WordPress theme, called Make.…

    Topher DeRosia March 30, 2015
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    The Best Way to Build Custom Meta Boxes in WordPress?

    Recently I needed to accomplish a specific chore for my job. I needed to make a meta box in the WordPress admin. The image below…

    Topher DeRosia March 26, 2015
    7 Comments
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    My Review of WP Rocket – WordPress Caching

    Server side site caching has long been a passion of mine. The speed increase for the end user combined with the lowered server resource needs…

    Topher DeRosia March 17, 2015
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    Using the Easy Content Types Plugin for WordPress

    In June of 2010 WordPress 3.0 introduced Custom Post Types, and thereby changed WordPress from a blog platform to a Content Management System. The power…

    Topher DeRosia March 11, 2015
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    DesktopServer: The Best Way to Install WordPress Locally

    I recently got to test drive DesktopServer from ServerPress, both the free and the premium version. This app has a very nice interface for installing…

    Topher DeRosia March 5, 2015
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    Why I Use BackupBuddy for WordPress Backups

    I first used BackupBuddy about 4 years ago. At the time I was using it as a migration tool because it had excellent built-in search…

    Topher DeRosia February 27, 2015
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