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Ready or not, WordPress 5.0 is here! Here’s what you need to know.

WordPress 5.0 was just released, and it’s arguably one of the most significant releases we’ve seen in more than ten years. Here’s what you need to know…

New Course: An Introduction to Gutenberg

Don’t get caught by surprise by Gutenberg—the brand new content editor coming soon to WordPress! It will completely transform the way you create content in WordPress. This 17-part video course by Joe Casabona will introduce you to the all-new Gutenberg Editor in WordPress and show you how to use all of its exciting new features!

WP101 Celebrates 10 Years of Service to the WordPress Community

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the WordPress 101 video tutorial series. Here’s a quick look back at just how far our little ’side project‘ has come since it was first launched in 2008, plus a sneak peek at what’s coming next!

New Course: How to Add an Event Calendar to your WordPress Site

If you’d like to publish a calendar of events on your WordPress website in a beautiful, easy-to-read format, you’ll need an events calendar plugin. But how do you choose from the dozens of event calendar plugins that are available for WordPress? How can you tell which one is best? Even after you decide, how do […]

New Course: How to Create Custom Forms in WordPress with Ninja Forms

Learn how to use the Ninja Forms plugin for WordPress to create just about any type of custom form you can imagine—from simple contact forms to event registrations, file uploads, payments, and more—with this brand new, 18-part video tutorial course by WP101.

Introduction to the MailPoet Email Newsletter Plugin for WordPress

We partnered with the MailPoet team to create an 8-part Introduction to MailPoet — one of the easiest email newsletter plugins for WordPress. More than 400,000 WordPress site owners use MailPoet to send welcome emails, notifications about new posts, and email newsletters to their site’s visitors. It’s a breeze to set up in less than 20 minutes. Best of all, it works right within your own WordPress dashboard. Learn more in this new 20-minute course!

WP Engine Recommends WP101 as a Top WordPress Education Site

We’re thrilled to announce that WP Engine has named WP101 as a Recommended Solution for WordPress Education.

What is Google AMP and How to Implement It on Your WordPress Website

Google has recently initiated an open source project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). In this article, we’ll explain what AMP is and how to implement it in your WordPress site.

Liquid Web Review: Managed WordPress Hosting that Goes Above and Beyond

Today, dozens of companies claim to offer “managed WordPress hosting.” But what exactly do they manage for you? Liquid Web is delivering unique features for mission-critical WordPress sites that go far beyond what other hosts are delivering today.

Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress product offers customer service, security, and speed, like everyone else. What sets them apart are the problems they’re focused on solving — updating your plugins for you automatically, resizing your images automatically, making WooCommerce sites load faster, and syncing your staging and production environments — while you edit both of them.

These aren’t technical problems, they’re business problems. And it’s why Liquid Web is fast becoming the best choice for mission-critical online business sites.

New Course: Getting Started with the Jetpack Plugin

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our long-awaited course for the Jetpack plugin! We’ve partnered with well-known WordPress educator, Zac Gordon, to create Getting Started with Jetpack — a 35-part tutorial series designed to help you add dozens of powerful, new features to your WordPress website with the Jetpack all-in-one plugin!