We all love a celebration, and now that Easter is over, we look forward to the next occasion. How far away is the next occasion you like to celebrate? Whatever it might be, let’s build a widget plugin to add a countdown timer to our…
Have you ever faced a situation where after updating a theme or a plugin, your WordPress site displays nothing but a white page? So bad, that you’re even locked out of the WordPress dashboard? That my friend, is popularly…
WordPress uses different types of code to run the software. PHP, CSS, HTML and Javascript are 4 different code languages you’ll find in the core WordPress files. PHP is the most powerful code that runs the core WordPress…
Lets take a look at how to execute custom functions in your themes different hook locations based on certain conditions being met and returning yes…
It seems that many of you don’t want to show the new feature called “Welcome Panel” since WordPress 3.3. I guess that those who do not want to display this message try to hide this box to their clients, that’s why I thought…
bbPress is a tremendous plugin that provides a complete forum system done the WordPress way. Along with simply providing a great forum system for discussion boards, bbPress also works exceptionally well as a support…
In WordPress you can create a sidebar widget area where the admin user can dynamically choose which widgets are displayed on the website. This makes it very easy for the user to add, edit or delete widgets with a nice…
After hunting down some tutorials and finding some missing important parts, no explanations, and being disappointed, I had to do some experimenting. As a developer, I do not mind solving a challenge and putting puzzles…
In a previous article last year I wrote a tutorial about how to Create WordPress Widget To Display Twitter Updates, since then I have learnt a lot more about WordPress development. For this reason I have decided to revisit this widget and make…
They are so many tutorials on the web to explain “how to add a custom field to WordPress menus” but most of them treat about how to use the default CSS field of the default Description field. None of them gives a real method to…
On a recent project, I had created an order tracking system using custom post types, and I needed a way to send out an email to the representative once the order was entered into the system, so that they could then track the order and check for updates at their leisure…
With WordPress becoming more and more popular there is a massive amount of code being generated by users, agencies and marketplaces. I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time and it amazes me how many developers…
There are plenty of posts out there with tips for WordPress newbies, which is pretty damned handy, it has to be said. After all, we were all beginners once. When you first fire it up, WordPress can be pretty overwhelming — such a depth of functionality…
Today I’d like to show you how to go further with custom metaboxes and specifically how to use them according to post formats. We won’t cover how to build reusable custom metaboxes as it has already been covered in a previous…
WordPress has been gaining a foothold in the general content management system (CMS) game for a few years now, but the real breakthrough was the custom post type mechanism which allows for the creation of a wide variety of content. Let’s take a look at how…
One development in web design in the last year that I have found really handy is fonts which are made up of icons which you can include your WordPress themes. No longer do you have to cut out individual fonts as images, using a font icon…
If you’ve been using WordPress for a while, you’ve probably made some mistakes. Maybe you haven’t made many mistakes however you may look back at when you first started and know you could have done things better. Personally, i know i could have done…
Before diving into this tutorial please go through my first tutorial on Custom Post Types, where I have explained some of the important aspects of CPTs (Custom Post Types). In this tutorial we shall explore more about this wonderful feature in WordPress…
WordPress is great. It’s easy to install and there are a multitude of free and premium themes available to download. Or you could always make a theme yourself. Don’t know how to code? No problem, we’ve got you covered! Everyone is a beginner…
Every new client job you start working with will have its own set of challenges for you to work around, but by developing a streamlined process that you an apply to new clients its makes both parties live’s easier. Recently I put forward the case…