TL;DR: You don’t need a plugin to send WordPress email over SMTP. Define SMTP creds in wp-config.php and hook phpmailer_init in your theme (or a small “must-use” mu-plugin) to configure PHPMailer. Test with wp_mail() or WP-CLI. Why do this? Assumptions: You’re comfortable editing theme files / mu-plugins and have SMTP credentials from a provider. Tested…Read More
Have you ever looked inside the uploads folder of WordPress site and saw a lot of almost the same image files? Do not worry, this is not some malware or anything similar, it’s the default behaviour of WordPress called thumbnails or image sizes. For any larger image you upload, WordPress creates multiple resized versions of…Read More
There are plenty of great jQuery slider plugins/scripts out there, like bxSlider, but what if you need just simple slideshow and don’t want to use any of those scripts because they are overkill? No worries, it isn’t that hard to do, and we are going to go trough step by step to build one. We…Read More