Loading CSS Into WordPress the Right Way
Without CSS, you have very limited choices to style your web pages. And without proper CSS inclusion inside WordPress, you can make it extremely hard for your theme’s users to customize the theme’s...
View ArticleTrim the Bloat: Taking Another Look
Throughout this series, we’ve been looking at a number of different strategies for keeping our WordPress installations as lean as possible. In doing this, we’ve talked about a number practical tips to...
View ArticleSteps to Becoming a Quality WordPress Theme Developer
Have you ever found asking: how do Premium WordPress theme authors achieve million dollar milestones? How do they come up with such amazing designs and create such huge following? Read the original...
View ArticleHow to Customize the WordPress Dashboard to Minimize Confusion
Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced user of WordPress, one thing that everyone finds puzzling at some point is the Dashboard. Read more here: How to Customize the WordPress Dashboard to Minimize...
View ArticleRunning WordPress on OpenShift: An Introduction
OpenShift is a PaaS that allow you to run your own app for free with low resources. Visit link: Running WordPress on OpenShift: An Introduction
View ArticleHow To Display Post Meta Data on a WordPress Post
In my last series of articles, we looked at the concepts of object-oriented programming from the perspective of the beginner. The goal of the series was to take those who were not familiar with...
View ArticleUsing the TGM Plugin Activation Library in Your Themes
Themes aren’t meant to be functional, but as theme developers, we mostly need to include some features to make our theme a bit better and a function, you know, functional. In this tutorial, we’re...
View ArticleRunning WordPress on OpenShift Part2
In this tutorial, we will dive deeply into OpenShift to understand the custom build and deployment process. We will also learn the command-line tool for logging and troubleshooting when our...
View ArticleCreating an FAQ Page Using Two Loops
What You’ll Be CreatingFAQ pages are quite common on websites, in particular e-commerce websites or those promoting a product or service which potential customers are likely to have questions about....
View ArticleWriting Maintainable WordPress Themes: Directories
When it comes to building WordPress themes – as with many other types of things, really – there are right ways and wrong ways to do it. Read the original: Writing Maintainable WordPress Themes:...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Working with Content Types in WordPress
In the first two parts of this series, I introduced the WordPress database and its structure and showed how relationships between different content types are managed. Read this article: Understanding...
View ArticleThe Fundamentals of Building a WordPress Server Dashboard
What You’ll Be CreatingPeople often complain that WordPress is slow. Whether or not this is true depends on many factors, but if we can see server resources inside the WordPress dashboard, then it may...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Working with Posts in WordPress
Like so many examples of WordPress terminology, the term ‘posts’ can be confusing, as it refers to a post type as well as a content type stored in a specific database table. Here, I’ll clarify the...
View ArticleThe Privacy and Optimization of a WordPress Dashboard Widget
What You’ll Be CreatingIn the first two parts of this series, we completed, a full-featured plugin that shows us server status as dashboard widget. Follow this link: The Privacy and Optimization of a...
View ArticleUsing The WordPress Custom Field User Interface
In the first post in this series, I covered what custom fields are and why they are important. Continue reading here: Using The WordPress Custom Field User Interface
View ArticleImplementing the EU Cookie Law Into Your WordPress Site
If you live in Europe, you’ve probably heard about the cookie law. The exact law changes from country to country and some of the guidelines are a little unclear about ways it should be implemented....
View ArticleAdd a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts
What You’ll Be CreatingIf you write longer blog posts and want to give your readers a structured way to navigate your pages and posts, the free Table of Contents Plus plugin is an elegant solution. It...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Working with User Data in WordPress
WordPress stores user data in the wp_users table, which is linked to the wp_posts and wp_comments tables:WordPress also stores user data in two other tables:Additional meta data on users is stored in...
View ArticleAdding Custom Fields To WordPress Programmatically
One of the things that makes WordPress so powerful as a content management system is that the post_meta table starts as a nearly blank slate that you can easily add custom meta fields to. How you use...
View ArticleGetting Started with the WordPress Media Uploader
When WordPress 3.5 was released, one of the most significant changes that was introduced was to that of the Media Uploader. Perhaps a more accurate description of the change would be to refer to at as...
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