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title: "Category: WordPress"
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description: "Entries filed under the WordPress category on The Modern Web."
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# Category: WordPress

Entries filed under WordPress. Narrower categories: WordPress Plugins.

## [February 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/)

### [Essential WordPress plugins for your website](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/essential-wordpress-plugins/)

Plugin recommendations date badly, but the categories do not. A content site generally needs help in four places: search metadata, security hardening, caching and performance, and backups. Everything else is specific to the project.

Filed under: [Resources](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/), [Security](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/security/), [SEO](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/), [WordPress](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/), [WordPress Plugins](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/essential-wordpress-plugins/)

### [Developing a custom WordPress theme: 5 tips for success](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/developing-a-custom-wordpress-theme-5-tips-for-success/)

WordPress decides which template file renders a request through a fixed hierarchy. Sketching which of those files a project actually needs, before writing any of them, prevents the common outcome of one enormous template full of conditional branches.

Filed under: [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/), [WordPress](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/developing-a-custom-wordpress-theme-5-tips-for-success/)