Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
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WordPress Shortcodes: A Complete Guide
- May 1st, 2012
- 32 Comments
WordPress shortcodes were introduced in version 2.5 and since then have proved to be one of the most useful features. The average user acting as editor has the ability to publish dynamic content using macros, without the need for programming skills. When a shortcode is inserted in a WordPress post or page, it ...
Read more...Inside The WordPress Toolbar
- March 1st, 2012
- 14 Comments
The WordPress Admin Bar, first introduced in version 3.1, debuted to mixed reactions. A Google search for “wordpress admin bar” returns multiple articles about how to disable or remove it. Version 3.2 of WordPress introduced new features and functionality, and version 3.3 has not only further enhanced it but integrated ...
Read more...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...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...How To Use AJAX In WordPress
- October 18th, 2011
- 24 Comments
In the last few years AJAX has creeped into websites and has slowly become THE way to create dynamic, user friendly and responsive websites. AJAX is the technology that lets you update the contents of a page without actually having to reload it in a browser. For example, Google Docs ...
Read more...Developing WordPress Locally With MAMP
- September 28th, 2011
- 89 Comments
Local development refers to the process of building a website or Web application from the comfort of a virtual server, and not needing to be connected to the Internet in order to run PHP and MySQL or even to test a contact form. One of the most annoying parts of ...
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...How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 2)
- June 8th, 2011
- 49 Comments
The default “category” and “tag” taxonomies in WordPress offer a lot of flexibility to those with imagination and in my development experience I have seen a wide range of creative implementations. With the introduction of custom taxonomies and their growing ease of use, though, we need no longer be bound ...
Read more...How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 1)
- June 2nd, 2011
- 96 Comments
WordPress is amazing. With its growing popularity and continual development, it is becoming the tool of choice for many designers and developers. WordPress projects, though, are pushing well beyond the confines of mere “posts” and “pages”. How do you go about adding and organizing media and all its complexities? With ...
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