Posts Tagged ‘Essentials’
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WordPress Multisite: Practical Functions And Methods
- November 17th, 2011
- 32 Comments
Multisite is a powerful new feature that arrived with the release of WordPress 3.0. It allows website managers to host multiple independent websites with a single installation of WordPress. Although each “website” in a network is independent, there are many ways to share settings, code and content throughout the entire ...
Read more...Create Native Admin Tables In WordPress The Right Way
- November 3rd, 2011
- 47 Comments
WordPress list tables are a very common element of the WordPress admin interface but creating one of those tables is not really an intuitive thing to do when you haven’t done it before. In this article, we’ll see how to generate some native admin tables the right way. In this article, ...
Read more...How To Create Tabs On WordPress Settings Pages
- October 20th, 2011
- 25 Comments
Using tabs in a user interface can help you better organize content, so it’s only natural that WordPress themes that have a lot of options would benefit from tabs on their settings page. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you’ll get to ...
Read more...WordPress Essentials: The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks
- October 7th, 2011
- 43 Comments
If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existing functionality or create new functionality, you will have to turn to hooks. In this article, I ...
Read more...WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin
- September 30th, 2011
- 45 Comments
WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggering emails to be sent, and much more). Whereas themes modify the look of your website, plugins change how ...
Read more...WordPress Essentials: Interacting With The WordPress Database
- September 21st, 2011
- 34 Comments
While many functions you already use in WordPress communicate with the database there is an easy and safe way to do this directly using the $wpdb class. Built on the great ezsql class by Justin Vincent, $wpdbwill allow you to address queries to any table in your database, and it will also help ...
Read more...Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
- March 8th, 2011
- 89 Comments
Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives. Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly ...
Read more...Mastering WordPress Shortcodes
- February 2nd, 2009
- 119 Comments
Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are powerful but still yet quite unknown WordPress functions. Imagine you could just type “adsense” to display an AdSense ad or “post_count” to instantly find out the number of posts on your blog. WordPress shortcodes can do this and more and will definitely make your ...
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