Posts Tagged ‘Techniques’
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Inside WordPress Actions And Filters
- February 16th, 2012
- 5 Comments
Gone are the days when WordPress developers, wanting to extend the functionality, had to alter and hack the WordPress core source code directly, resulting in headaches when upgrading and sharing modifications. When WordPress 1.2 rolled out back in 2004 a new plugin architecture was introduced; an architecture that is now ...
Read more...How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns
- February 3rd, 2012
- 31 Comments
Custom post types add a level of flexibility to WordPress that makes this open-source Web development platform more useful on many levels. Whenever I have been faced with a Web-based task, especially one that involves organizing information, the first thing I do is examine WordPress to determine if it can ...
Read more...How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress
- January 19th, 2012
- 100 Comments
Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come built into their design template, the majority of WordPress users install a plugin to automatically ...
Read more...10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme
- December 7th, 2011
- 12 Comments
The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, we’ll review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme. You can add all of these code ...
Read more...Create Native Admin Tables In WordPress The Right Way
- November 3rd, 2011
- 28 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...Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress’ Content Editor
- October 14th, 2011
- 63 Comments
As a Web designer, I often find myself building WordPress-based websites that will ultimately be updated and maintained by clients who have little to no experience working with HTML. While the TinyMCE rich-text editor is great for giving Web content managers of any skill level the tools they need to ...
Read more...How To Create Custom Post Meta Boxes In WordPress
- October 4th, 2011
- 93 Comments
What seems like one of the most complicated bits of functionality in WordPress is adding meta boxes to the post editing screen. This complexity only grows as more and more tutorials are written on the process with weird loops and arrays. Even meta box “frameworks” have been developed. ...
Read more...New WordPress Power Tips For Template Developers And Consultants
- May 10th, 2011
- 65 Comments
It has been a big year for WordPress. If there were still some lingering doubts about its potency as a full-fledged content management system, then the full support for custom taxonomies and custom post types in WordPress 3.0 core should have put them to rest. WordPress 3.1 took those ...
Read more...Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
- March 8th, 2011
- 82 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...10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks
- July 1st, 2010
- 111 Comments
Security has always been a hot topic. Offline, people buy wired homes, car alarms and gadgets to bring their security to the max. Online, security is important, too, especially for people who make a living from websites and blogs. In this article, we’ll show you some useful tweaks to protect ...
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