How to Make Your Site Load Faster [2019 version]
If you are on this page, then we did a good job, and the Apollo13Themes blog loads fast enough for you. However, this post isn’t about our work. Rather,…
Beginner’s Guide: What You Can Do with Rife Theme
We have decided to be brutally honest with you in this post. We struggled to produce an extraordinary WordPress theme, and to some extent, we did it. Thousands of…
Ten Free WordPress Themes for Portfolios
There are literally tens, if not hundreds of free WordPress themes for portfolios. Besides these themes, many WordPress developers sell premium themes suitable for portfolios. Under these circumstances, the…
Free vs. Freemium vs. Premium WordPress Themes [2019 Version]
WordPress is not only the leading content management system but also the core of an expanding industry. Countless agencies have developed and sold premium WordPress themes, plugins, and other…
7 Ways to Make Money with WordPress
WordPress is no longer the leading content management system (CMS) but the core of a growing industry. Many entrepreneurs and investors make money from investing in WordPress related startups.…
Inside WordPress: The Core Files Explained for Beginners
For many bloggers, sentences starting with “add these lines of code into the .htaccess file” are more frightening than the most-awarded horror movies. The admin-friendly themes and plugins in…
Rife Free on WordPress.org, translations and new designs
Since Rife Free finally was approved for WordPress.org repository on 2nd January 2019, we were very occupied with work so we could use this chance we got, in the…
RTL support, Accessibility improvements, and raised minimum PHP version
In version 2.2.0 (released November 28th, 2018) we have added long-awaited RTL support for all themes based on Apollo13 Framework. It means both Rife Free & Rife Pro can finally be used by a broader audience. We have also started implementation of accessibility improvements and fixed a few minor issues.
Don’t update to WordPress 5.0
✍️ Article updated – 21st December 2018
Although there were various plans to release WordPress 5.0 for whole last year, the first official release date was 19th November 2018. Thankfully it was already pushed to 27th November 2018, and many across WP community hope it will be pushed to secondary planned date in January 2019. Update: release date is set to 6th December 2018
Whenever release will happen don’t rush to update, if you really care about your site being fully available.
Rife themes shortcodes available as Elementor widgets
Since version 2.1.0 (released October 31st, 2018) all shortcodes from Apollo13 Framework are now available as Elementor widgets. That means no more writing shortcode by hand and lurking into documentation for all available parameters – isn’t this great?
Thanks to this we were able to rebuild all Designs(demos) for Rife Theme without using a single shortcode. Now everything is easy to drag & drop and edit.