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10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme

From Elio Rivero
December 7th, 2011
14 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 ...

Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

From Sameer Borate
December 1st, 2011
34 Comments

Computing is full of buzzwords, “cloud computing” being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay. This article goes over Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress ...

Securing Your WordPress Website

From Daniel Pataki
November 10th, 2011
49 Comments

Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially. It is now rare for a new website to not ...

Create Native Admin Tables In WordPress The Right Way

From Jeremy Desvaux de Marigny
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, ...

Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress’ Content Editor

From David Hansen
October 14th, 2011
68 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 ...

The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress

From Peter Wilson
October 12th, 2011
20 Comments

Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet: “You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading time will be slower.” You check your source code, and sure enough you see this: <script src="/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.6.1" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin/jquery.js"></script> What ...

How To Create Custom Post Meta Boxes In WordPress

From Justin Tadlock
October 4th, 2011
107 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. ...

New WordPress Power Tips For Template Developers And Consultants

From Jacob Goldman
May 10th, 2011
68 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 ...

Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know

From Dave Donaldson
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 ...

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