Welcome to WP Beaches

How do you quickly find out which template for a page or post in your WordPress theme is being used without systematically going through each template? WordPress uses a structure of templates formed in a hierarchy of importance, when one isn’t…

Sliders have been slammed a lot recently, notably for their effectiveness and usability, however within certain contexts they are still relevant and more importantly still popular with clients, their use may be more relevant to certain industries, their usage may…

The use of wp_localize_script is an API in WordPress is to retrieve PHP values from the database to use in javascript/jquery scripts, it can also be utilized to make string values language translatable if required, but also used to pass user defined variables/settings say…

Having some content slide out from the side of a page is a great solution for off canvas content, it can solve crowded page issues especially at smaller sizes as it can slide in content that takes prominence, do what it needs…

JetPack has a great Related Posts module, here’s how to move it further down the page below posts meta info or anywhere else you like by using a shortcode provided by JetPack. In Genesis Themes for instance, it positions itself…

WordPress Underscores theme comes with a default primary menu that toggles to a mobile menu button at 600px wide. If your project requires using another mobile menu solution it is best to remove the existing one and here’s how.  …

Sidr is a very popular jQuery off canvas menu that can slide content from the left or right into the viewport which is a great solution for mobile or tablet display. Here’s how to get it up and running in…

On Genesis themes, the structural .wrap is essentially an element which acts as a container for content. The sample and most of the themes have it set at 1140px wide and narrower at smaller sizes. What areas have the .wrap markup  by default are:…

Is your VVV Vagrant running slow on Virtual Box, lot’s of MySQL restarts, takes ages to SSH into the box – that might be because the initial memory settings was left at 512MB which is not pretty and as your working…