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Tell Us What You Want on Wptuts+!

on Jun 20th 2011 with 183 comments

Wptuts+ is a brand new site, meaning now is the best time to have your say on what you’d like to see here. Whether you’re dying to learn how to create your first WordPress theme, learn advanced plugin development techniques, or better promote your commercial themes, we’d like to hear from you!

You can suggest not just particular topics, but feedback on how you think the site should operate, site suggestions any other ideas you wish to share with the editorial team.

We’d Love to Read Your Suggestions!

Although Wptuts+ is certainly going to be completely dedicated to WordPress, this is a fairly broad topic. It covers design, developing widgets and plugins, selling themes, securing your blog, finding inspiration, and much more – so what would you like to see most?

All you need to do is leave a comment on this post with a post idea, general suggestion, or a message to the site editor. We’ll read everything you have to say, and look forward to turning Wptuts+ into one of the most useful and valuable WordPress resources available!

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  • http://keeskluskens.nl Kees

    I would like to see tuts about creating widgets and especially about advanced WordPress tricks (such as modifying the query etc.).

    Great site btw!

    • http://serhanuygur.nl/ Serhan Uygur

      I agree on Kees.. I would love to see more about Custom Taxonomies and such! And stuff to create your own WP-Admin Expansion

    • http://www.my-site-status.com// Klauss

      Yes I agree too. I want more query tricks too.

    • http://www.webappsledger.com/ Joefrey Mahusay

      I agree with you Kees, I want more advance admin option panel, widgets and plugins. This site rocks!

  • http://www.neilrpearce.co.uk Neil

    Well, any tutorials for WP would be very welcome but I would love to learn more about how i can become a successful theme developer and seller?

    Also plugin tutorials would be very handy?

    Can’t wait to see this take off – very exciting!

    • Matt

      I agree with these and I would like to see tutorials on how to build custom themes both from scratch and to customize existing themes.

  • Alexandre HOCHART

    First of all, I like the initiative of dedicating a tuts+ website to WordPress. Thank you for that endeavour.
    I’d like to know more about WP multisites. Also, how to create plugins that are called in the TinyMCE editor.
    Cheers.

    • http://www.joeleadedesign.com.au Joel Eade

      +1 for WP Multisite. I’m aware of it but haven’t taken the leap into researching it. Cheers!

    • http://www.albert-pak.com Al

      +1 for multisite also, if there would be like a tutorial or something on how to get one set up and etc.

      Also, tutorials on advanced WP customization and creating custom themes.

      Looking forward to this part of the network taking off :)

    • http://backlinksuniversity.com/ dave

      +1 for multisite

      Would love tuts on plugins, how to create them. I’m a total noob so from start to finish and all the different things you can do with them.

      Thanks for creating this great site

      Regards
      Dave

  • http://numizmat.az Mr Ravan

    I’d like to see more unique premium resources, plugins etc. for WP.
    Good luck ;)

  • http://www.qubesys.com/wordpress-services/ PSD to Wordpres

    Would like to see some good tutorials on Plugin Development.

  • dave

    Tutorials such as: “how to make a advanced themes for wordpress” , own plugins etc.

    • Mifas

      I agree. It would be nice if the video tutorial

  • http://copperseed.co.za/ Ashraf

    This is going to be majorly awesome! Really looking forward to some great articles here!

    I would like to see plugin development tutorials and advanced tips and tricks. Thanks!

  • http://anthonycook.co Anthony Cook

    I would like to see information on the new features in upcoming versions of WordPress. Would be great if you reviewed the latest and greatest plugins also.

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  • ronka

    A tutorial about how to create an option panel will be great.

  • nah

    Influence the developers to make WordPress OBJECT ORIENTED.

    I cannot believe it’s so popular even though it’s such a crappy engine!

  • http://about.me/foralien Anna L.

    Sometimes you find something interesting and usefull or just new (to you personally or really new code from latest wordpress version) just browsing source-code…normaly there is very poor if any documentation in Codex, but this features could make your life as a developer much easier… would be nice to have some round-ups of such poorly documented features/functions/classes of WP with some practical examples

    • Dennis

      +1 :)

  • van Itterbeek Ive

    I’m just started learning WP, so tuts are welcome like how the make your own theme, building your own plugins, making your own option panels, putting your own jquery menu and sliders, etc. Building a site from scratch into a wordpress theme.

  • Shiro

    Hi I do like to know more in WP Core. How can WP can be so flexible in plug-in!

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  • acha5066

    Don’t forget to include some basic tutorials too… Not all of us are as advanced.

  • Raimonds

    Hello,
    Nice to see new sites comming to network. I would love to see video tutorials, maybe on things like Building site from start to finish, maybe not just a blog, but use wordpress as CMS.

    Thanks,
    with pleasure Raimonds.

  • Raimonds

    Forgot to add. It would be nice to learn how to customize Admin panel without plugins, but with self written code. (or Self-made plugins)

  • http://boubakr22.wordpress.com Boubakr

    Thank you for this !
    We just need how we can control the wordpress as CMS and write own plugins and premium themes, and other tips to make life easy :)

  • http://www.planningforce-express.com Isabelle

    “The ideal wordpress setup”, that would list all the essential plugins and maybe a word about multilanguage?

    Anyway, best wishes!

  • http://blue-fx.org zanzzy

    WP as a CMS, pro themes development (teach us how to make a complete theme settings page and stuff like this) and some plugins development :)

    Cheers,
    zanzzy

    • http://www.kieru.com Rob

      WordPress as a CMS and developing complex themes with options panels would be an amazing resource.

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  • Simon

    I would defiantly like more advanced tutorials, not just building wordpress templates, perhaps widgets and actual plugin development.

  • http://creartinc.tumblr.com/ Bilal Khettab

    I really want to learn Coding!

  • http://www.webguide4u.com Vivek Parmar

    That’s a great intiative, woule love to see tutorials on Theme developement and plugin development

  • James Robertson

    Extensive coverage of WordPress as a CMS – great site!

  • Saquib

    I would like to watch screen-cast on WordPress Plugin Development and Advance theme functions.

  • http://www.albruna.nl Martin

    Maybe once a week a review on a plugin for WordPress. Obviously not only the paid plugins but also the free ones. There are some real goog plugins out there and a review would be usefull.

  • http://thekingdom.be Be.

    I’m not a pro or making a living our of web design / development but owning and managing a network of sites sharing the same roots and having different (outdated) themes, I recently started to centralise the index, single, post, archives, etc. while letting each site apply its own theme and stylesheet. (have a look at http://thekingdom.be and see the others sites such as the Kingdom Kitchen, links are in the sidebar).

    I’m planning on extending that to every single common functions, styles, behaviors, creating what is to become a master theme upon which child themes can apply their specifics. As usual in this type of approach, I have to first reduce the functional scope and the features before extending them again. I have some instincts and a limited php development experience helping me but I’d love to see these topics discussed and explored on WPTuts+ by true specialists and especially how I can leverage on WP fonctionalities, API, etc. to achieve better results in this scope.

    • http://thekingdom.be Be.

      … and I forgot Multi-languages and how to be able to offer a full wp site in three languages (FR, EN, PL) with automated translations (at least for posts that I won’t translate manually) would be a great topic too.
      The google translation links we added are helping but are far from being ideal for visitors only mastering one language and being uncomfortable with even just menus and links in another language.

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  • http://iva-is.me Iva

    A tutorial on how to make a proper options page, using the settings API.

  • Noebel

    Like to see the new custom post function explained.

    • David Appleyard
      Author

      You won’t have long to wait for that one :)

  • MARWAN

    I’d like to see converting psd to wordpres theme video tutorials

  • sleeper

    What we REALLY need are tutorials which teach how to build wordpress themes FROM SCRATCH…

    The series should…

    1. Be a START to FINISH project
    2. Assume beginner to intermediate proficiency with PHP and WordPress
    3. Explain core WP functions
    4. Explain (in detail) the creation of the main WP includes including
    header.php
    sidebar.php
    etc…

    This is really needed.

    • http://www.tkmcooper.com Terry

      I agree completely. Speaking as someone who is versed in HTML/CSS and has been learning PHP for about a year, but with no expereince at all of using WordPress, I’d love to see a ‘WordPress site from scratch’ series.

    • Kyle

      +1

      It’s hard to find a definitive source that covers the fundamentals and “why things are the way they are”

      If this is too large of a request, even a good thorough breakdown of a starter-kit like Starkers would be sweet.

      • t.g

        And in addition the specific new functions on each wp update!

      • Andrew

        Envato did a screencast series that covered a PSD to theme example. Do a search for “WordPress for designers” and you should find it pretty easily. It should help explain a lot of the basics, it is one of the things I first started learning from.

        • sleeper

          I looked couldn’t find it. Please post a link.

          Here is an example of a serious walk-through on one aspect of WordPress: The loop and more specifically, using “query_post” . http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/91-the-wordpress-loop/

          Note several things:

          1. He digs into one CRITICAL aspect of WordPress, (again) “the loop”.
          2. Then he drills down onto ONE specific feature: “query_posts”
          3. Then he takes “query_posts” through a very useful test drive, explain core concepts and detailing how knowledge of this concept can be used in THE REAL WORLD.

          This screen-cast was (IMHO) MUCH better than his title “WordPress 3: Creating and Editing Custom Themes” wherein he states that he will teach you… “… how to build a custom WordPress theme from scratch and satisfy common client requests.”

          Problem was, in the first chapter, he points us to a custom theme that we were to use for the tutorial. Already built….NOT from scratch…further, he never really stepped through and explained the code used in the template..

          Scratch … good people….means … a BLANK page…

          I want DETAILS!!!

          Let’s get into the WordPress Core and demystify how it works.
          Lets dig into the the database and learn to leverage that understanding
          Lets walk through the template files and build them from scratch!
          Let’s go through the Plugin API and explain not only the “How to’s” but also the “why to’s”…

          you know… real developer stuff. That’s what i’d like to see. Cuz I aint seen it yet!

          Do that and I’ll buy you a case of whatever your drinkin!

          peace!

  • http://beedragon.com Lori

    Plugin development tips, tricks, and best practices. Thanks!

  • http://www.organic-web.net David L

    Hi I would really like a tutorial that show how to create custom forms that store the data in the wordpress database. this would be usful for a petition site or contact form etc. Veryy cool that you split wp tuts saves me hunting through all the net tutts rss feeds not that i wouldnt do that anyway.

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  • Marcos Batalla Brosig

    Hi, i´m so excited about this launch, i could spin circles in the floor. Really the best message for me since the year starts. I really loved to see how to build an own framework. I would love to enhance the wordpress dashboard with own custom made menusand functions like the ones from the top notch wordpress themes. A fabulous one which i really like is the “coral” theme for example. I think. If we could learn something like this would be absolutely great. But any other kind of tutorial about wordpress would help me.

    So, thanks again to listen to all the voices and finnaly set up a wordpress tutorial site, fantastic.

    Cheers Marcos

  • http://elie.andraos.org Elie Andraos

    - WP Query on cutsom wp post types and taxonomies.
    - Best practice for writing a plugin

  • Paolo Riozzi

    Amazing, this has come just in time for me!

    I’d like to see some tutorials on editing the structure of themes.

    All the time I am finding cool themes to use on freelance work, but I would like to know how tobreak them apart a little more, so I can make them more my own and less like I just ripped someone elses work for my own gain.

    Thanks!

  • http://www.jatinhariani.pcriot.com Jatin Hariani

    Would like the tutorials in text as well as in video format because i tend to read tuts+ on the go.

  • http://www.geoffreymultimedia.com Edwin

    Hey guys, I’d love to see an article on how to convert an old 2.* theme into a new 3.* theme. Not sure how tricky that is :)

  • http://www.jsxtech.com Jaspal Singh

    I’m a hardcore programmer/developer.
    I would like to read tutorials on – “building up full-fledged web based applications using wordpress”.
    Thanks in advance.

    • Andrew

      I second this, I would like to know if it is a good idea to use WordPress as a web app and if it is reliable enough to do so!

  • arnold

    omg thank you envato…
    I would like to see any quality tuts that can you bring…

    want:
    -I would like to know more about how to add more functionality in the themes…
    like the themes in themeforest.net , the themes are so good and I want to know and make some.

    -freaking plugins…
    -making Wordrpress as a cool CMS

    I hate to say it but creating themes for scratch was already covered in detail by Jeffrey Way and other tutorials at nettuts, so making another basic from scratch again would be useless..

  • Fahad

    Hi,
    Great idea for WordPress tutorials and i would like to see some PSD to WordPress tutorials :)
    Thank You.

  • Jessica

    Definitely tutorials on how to modify themes and basics of building out a site you designed using WP.

  • Congocontra

    I want to have articles systematically from beginning to end to create a high quality product can be published on themeforest. Thank those who have created Tut+ network. Thank you very much!

  • http://www.whytefly.com Bryan Fly

    I would love to see the WP from scratch series, and to get a little deeper I would love to see how to use WP as the front end and connect to Magento as the back end. There is very little information out there about this subject and I think it can be very beneficial. WP has an amazing ability for easily update-able content, but the shops so far are lacking in functionality.

    Thank for adding wp.tutsplus, so excited!

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  • Jaysone

    The comments.php template file has been something that i have always wanted to learn about. How about teaching us on how to build a ecommerce wp based site from scratch!!! I’m going to love this site!

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  • hello

    hi. i think the basix tutorials for photoshop are really great. it would be awesome, if there was such a section for wordpress, too.

  • Robert

    Would like to see some plugin development tutorials and things about advanced techniques.

  • murtaza

    Waiting for this from a long time . Just one thing why so late ?. Anyway i am very excited for wptuts

  • http://www.windkr89.nl Erik

    I would like to see how to build an advanced WordPress theme, including options in the admin panel, with sidebars, widgets, menu’s, etc.

    Also, I would focus on WordPress as a CMS, most of the people I speak are looking for a lean CMS that is easy to understand and easy to maintain.

  • http://alexbachuk.com alex

    Best practices for theme development, options panel and plugin development

  • Lichaba Nthethe

    I’m so excited about this, take a bow ENVATO and propz. I really want to see integration of a wordpress into static website. Not running wordpress as a CMS, but running a large website that uses wordpress for blogging related features, content and community related while static serves other traditional web services. Hope it makes sense. I saw it on one local newspaper, worked good too.

  • Hashan

    We need to know how to build plugins and themes for wp

  • Matt27

    I’d love to see a really indepth look at how to set up your computer for local wordpress developing.
    Never managed to get my head round that so I’ve always just worked on a live website which isn’t ideal.

  • kevin

    I’d like to see theme development tutorials, ranging from beginner to advanced.

  • http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog Tapeleg

    I would like to learn more about how to use WP as a CMS, including:
    custom post types,
    custom taxonomies,
    more about custom menus

    Just about anything that starts with the word custom.

    • Jérôme

      WordPress as a CMS is my main interest, too :)

      I know MagicFields quite well and have done some sites with it, but would love to read about alternatives like PodsCMS or Custom Post Types/Taxonomies/Menus etc. :)))
      When to use which approach, pros/cons, and of course tutorials presenting these different approaches to “WordPress as a CMS” :)

      Besides these, I’d also love to read about plugin development and best practices in theme development :)

      I’m really excited about this new tutsplus site, I love WordPress, best of luck and looking very much forward to the tutorials :)

  • http://www.cansurmeli.com C@N

    A lot of how-tos.

    Also good luck to you guys. :D

  • http://vivid9.com Chris

    Congrats on the new site. Very excited to see a WordPress Tuts site. Made my day. Although I am an Envato Fan Boy.. if there is such a thing. Even though I am 37…

    I’d love to know more about custom post types. Like how to create a portfolio (like the typical themeforest ones), where you can add items via post type and choose a page to designate as “portfolio”, then choose various different layouts to show your content. Like 2,3,4,5,6 columns etc.

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  • http://a7web.com Aaron

    I’d love to see some articles on developing quality premium themes.

  • Jen

    Hurray! I’ve been looking for a site dedicated to this. I am looking for tutorials on how to make a magazine theme. So having posts from various categories populating the home page. Also how to make custom author areas. Looking forward to reading!

  • http://victor-t.de Victor T

    I would like to see a good tutorial about customizing the Query to display (custom post type)posts for a date range.

    My problem:
    If the actual date is later then 1st October, then only show the (custom post type)posts from 1st October this year until now.
    If the actual date is between 1st January and 1st March, then only show the (custom post type)posts from 1st October last year until now.
    If the actual date is between 1st March and 1st October, then only show the (custom post type)posts from 1st March this year until now.

    The only one (not good) documented solution I can find is on the WordPress site and I dont understand it :(

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  • Andrew

    I would like to request that an effort be made to make the code used on the site secure, and point out what needs to be done or what is done in each tutorial to make it secure.

    I love nettuts, but in their tuts I frequently find language that says “but in a real world case, you would do x, y and z, to make it secure.” I am requesting that if you find the need to say “but in a real world case” you consider the tut incomplete, and not post it until this information is provided. People in forums complain that “noobs” write horrible code and don’t do x, y, and z. Well, if they are shown what to do, and probably more importantly why to do it, they will start doing x, y and z.

    I have the book, “Professional WordPress Plugin Development,” and it does a good job of explaining this topics, and points out ways that a lot of the “heavy-lifting” can be done by WordPress when it comes to securing a plugin. Please do this, even if it serves as a reminder for plugin devs to do this.

    Other than that, I would love to see development tutorials, theme coding tutorials, and even roundups of really cool ways WordPress is used, beyond “conventional” sites. There is also something about WordPress and scalability, would like to see something about keeping WordPress scalable. Maybe tuts on how to improve on a plugin, or to take an existing plugin and make it work the way you want it to.

    I have already RSS’ed this site, really excited to see this as a new Envato site!

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  • Matt Lightfoot

    I would love to see a PSD to WordPress Theme development. Thanks!

  • http://kurthurst.com Kurt

    Some tuts on Plugin development, theme options and some tips on best practices for making themes that do well in the Themeforest marketplace. Great job by the way. I really appreciate the time and effort you guys put into the tutorials here.

  • D

    I would like to see tutorials for different levels of users. I am a starter and i would be interested in tutorials similar to the ones you have on psd.tuts with martin perhiniak i believe. It is awesome when the tuts are short and straight on topic without confusing the mind with this and that information that is not relevant. Another cool think would be to put a series of tutorials which will assure the readers with a constant flow of understanding rather than touching chaotically on random topics. I appreciate your initiative to start this site and i hope i can learn a lot. Thank you.

  • Dennis

    Wow, this is a really nice surprise, thanks for creating this site! :)

    I would like to see more advanced development tuts and articles that will help me learn more about WordPress in detail. Also, I would like to learn more about best practices about theme and plugin development.
    I have read several WordPress theme development books, but all of them are about the basics (which is great for beginners) , but I really would like to learn some more advanced techniques.

    Thanks again, can’t wait for the new posts :)

  • Jack

    I would love to see the PSD to HTML tut finished off by turning it into a fully functioning WordPress theme as promised by Jeffery.

    Another tut I would love to see is a How-to on making and linking to a separate members site from a members only login on a WP site.

    You guys are doing a great job on this portal of tutorial sites. Keep up the good work, it’s much appreciated.

  • http://cortneyrobinson C. Robinson

    In depth and detailed walk throughs of developing themes that work in depth with custom post types and taxonomies

  • JPry

    One other user here mentioned that they’d like to see some tuts about poorly-documented pieces of the WordPress core, and I agree. In particular, how about a tutorial on modifying Walker classes in the code? Some time ago, I was working on a site where I needed to modify the code output of the built-in Nav menus, and the only way I could find was to create my own walker. I was able to figure it out, but documentation was sorely lacking.

    This may not always be necessary if there are filters that can be applied, but it would certainly be useful to plenty of developers out there.

    In addition to that specific request, I think it would be good to have some examples of how to use many of the built-in features of WordPress, similar to the Custom Post type tutorials.

    Another idea would perhaps be a challenge to developers: You give a specific topic within WordPress, and everyone who wants to submits their tutorial, and then publish the best version.

    • Amanda

      +1 for walker classes

  • Jennifer

    + 1 for a complete project

  • http://www.rouse.ws William Rouse

    I’m just learning WordPress and I am looking forward to increasing my knowledge in all areas.

  • http://tanshul.tumblr.com tanshul

    Hi guys,

    Nice idea. It would be awesome to have a full tutorial on WP eCommerce in detail, in-depth coverage on how to integrate with payment gateways would be a plus.

  • D.

    I would like to know common mistakes in wordpress and what to avoid.
    Can a regular (read: static) web designer and rather new to PHP fill in the gaps with this CMS (compared to other non-php CMS choices?).

    How to keep things secure? Seems like wordpress happens to break some plugins after updates and you need to upgrade every month. How to deal with this… This is one of the reasons I stayed off of WordPress for some time (seems like a leap of faith mont after month, which clients should really like). How can you keep things up and running and rely on it for commercial use?

    I used it once for a site and for me the query is a pain to control if you want to lookup multiple custom post types and the relevant data. Maybe some info regarding this and how to interpret those building stones (from start to finish)?

    Still, I always seem to have a love/hate relationship with wordpress, because of the above…
    Hope this site brings some clarity for me. Really looking forward for this!

  • http://aliendev.com Michael Youngblood

    This is fantastic. I would love to see more about using advanced features of wordpress and using wordpress for more then a blog, i.e. using custom post types to create portfolios, or setting up an ecom site using some of the popular plugins. I already have done a lot of that type of stuff, but I know it was a pain trying to find a good source of help when i was originally looking.

  • http://www.callmeping.com Ping

    A step by step tutorial on how to build themes for per example…thesis! from photshop to coding…but maybe that’s too much to asked :P

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  • http://twitter.com/unesm Unesm

    I want to see more tuts on the dev side, I think that the design side is worthless!

  • http://getbrandless.com Claudio

    We’d REALLY LOVE to see a series of posts on how to design + develop PREMIUm WP themes from scratch like the type of themes you see on ThemeForest… not simple themes… complex ones!!

    God luck guys!

  • Mike Moran

    Really looking forward to WPTuts+!

    I would love to see quality tuts on extending themes through things like options panels and shortcodes.

  • http://twitter.com/udcreative Gemma

    I’d like to see an in-depth tutorial series about creating common theme options and about how to use the Option Tree plugin. Each tutorial could cover one aspect of creating theme options, such as, one in-depth tutorial for creating a colour picker, another in-depth tutorial for creating a slider, etc.

  • http://www.twitter.com/brandongcarroll Brandon

    I’d love to see some tutorials on creating plugins and how to (best) use new features of WordPress as each version is released.

    So excited for this blog!

  • http://erickaseastrand.com Ericka

    I would love to get more information on the coding for non-traditional wordpress sites like a portfolio website, whether that means a list of widgets that are widely used or convenient for this site type or coding it yourself.

  • http://www.feedthebeats.com/ Jasper Burns

    A REALLY in-depth but simple way to create new WordPress themes for people who are comfortable with Photoshop but not coding.

    Like, imagine I’ve never coded before. Is there an easy free (or cheap) WYSIWYG editor that works well? Or could you break down code into a copy/paste ordeal where we just insert our own graphical elements?

    It’s a lot to ask, but that would be nice.

  • Vanessa

    There are so many WP sites out there… it would be awesome to have a weekly / bi-weekly segment that finds the butt-ugliest one, or perhaps the most poorly designed, and breaks it down, code wise, and provides tips for improvement (either in function, structure, or design). You could even give something to the users and have contests for the “best” fix, even if it’s a little subjective! :O)

  • http://www.xn--danielnuez-09a.com Daniel N

    -Bending WP for non-blog purposes! (like catalogs, real state, etc)

    -Tricks using Custom Fields

    -Tricks using Javascript/Ajax

    :D

  • http://bobthecoolguy.wordpress.com/ BobTheCoolGuy

    Embedding flash on free wordpress blogs is a great tutorial for you guys to demonstrate.

  • http://www.teqniaty.com Mohamed salah

    we want to see a category for Arab users

  • http://www.troypeterson.com Troy Peterson

    I would really love to find info on creating Plugins and more advanced WordPress development aside from just theme development.

  • http://baliniz.com Baliniz

    - Creating advanced theme options
    - Dragable content management for page template
    - Creating shortcode
    - Optimize WP for SEO :D

    thanks.

  • Dimitry

    Also, besides on how to work with it and write plugins for it, going into the studying of the wordpress source code itself would be very interesting. It’s possible to do alone, yet with the article and community this would be less frightening :)

  • Miles Smith

    WordPress Themes from Scratch.

  • http://www.danielepennati.com danipen

    I’d like to read tuts abuot how to use wp not for blog site, from the theme designe to the setting of wp!

  • skylos

    Even though there are plenty of tips & tutorials on custom taxonomies, I find there is a big void of actual applications (sans the “movie database” overused example).

    How can we take advantage of our custom taxonomies?

    Is search filtering like this http://www.cocosuites. com/en/suites/Spain/Barcelona, http://www.bankifsccode. com, http://www.car. gr/classifieds/cars/search/
    possible with wordpress, custom taxonomies and custom fields?

  • http://www.guillaumevoisin.fr Guillaume

    So nice that you’ve launched a WordPress Tuts Plus !
    I would really like to see a tut on how to protect some custom content type such as a private portfolio. Simple configuration in administration where you can choose a password to protect some custom post types. But more efficitiently that private posts that actually appear in search engines.
    So a custom post types won’t be crawled in any way (hidden in RSS feed, search results etc…)

    Very looking forward to read some great tuts!

    Thanks!

  • Martin Harvey

    I think a tutorial on creating and sending forms using AJAX and the wp_mail function would be good. Also, an in-depth session on working with Custom Post Types and Taxonomies would be useful. Generally, a section dedicated to the lesser known functions of WP would be exrtremely valuable. There is lots on the interent about this sort of stuff but it never seems very comprehensive!

    • Martin Harvey

      Oh…and while I think about it Custom Admin Panels how to…

  • http://www.nomad-one.com nomadone

    Hi great site looking forward to what lies ahead here.

    I have been developing wordpress sites for the last 5 years or so and more seriously for about 3 years. One thing I still haven’t come to terms with, and it’s probably because my focus is mostly front-end is the Options Panel. I can’t for the life of me understand why it has to be so darn difficult.

    I’ve created my own options panel using a custom post type and then creating for that post type a custom write panel from some code I managed to get hold of from another developer and it’s super easy to implement, but of course comes with the baggage of being a custom post type.

    I would very much be interested in a much easier method of creating an options panel. The method most tutorials use of saying “paste this code in your functions.php” doesn’t really help anyone trying to understand the nuts and bolts of the code. Even if it has to be a step by step series of posts covering all aspects of options panels, and done in a less bloated form that would benefit large amounts of more front end orientated web designers.

  • sergio

    Plugin creation and advance coding for WP

  • http://fedesilva.com Federico

    I’m a fan of nettuts screencast. I would like to see some here, specially related to wp plugins.

  • jose

    im really excited about the site…
    i would love to see how to build custom post types

  • http://man-sur.blogspot.com Mansur

    Hey, really glad to hear thet WordPress Tutorial become part of tutsplus network

    I want this:

    1) Complete step by step wordpress theme-option
    2) Custom Post type and its query posts.
    3) Facebook integration / Single Sign On & Registration / FB comment sync
    4) Admin Theme development
    5) Custom design registration page and login pages

    :D

  • Brady

    Im just stoked you guys decided to start WPTuts+!!, but if I had to request something it would be regarding custom post types, specifically having them show up on their own page, and only their own page.
    ;)

  • http://www.technbuzz.com Samiullah Khan

    I want a detailed tutorial for optimizing a wordpress blog for the search engines.

  • http://steffanantonas.com Steffan

    A few things:

    Really just more advanced stuff

    1. Detailed how-tos on creating and managing custom post types.
    2. Creating Theme Options for the admin panel.
    3. Tricks for Integrating JQuery and (multiple) slideshows into WP themes.
    4. Specific how-tos for using queries to pull posts and custom post types in creative ways (i..e how to show excerpts and thumbnails for the 3 most recent posts in XYZ category vertically in a sidebar or horizontally in a 3 column layout)

    5. How to create grid-style blogs.
    6. How to create full-screen pages and slideshows (like the PictureThis theme on Themeforest).

    Really excited about this blog, as many of the others in this thread. Wishing you guys the best of luck.

  • Ramit Walia

    Hmmm I was looking for this here at nettuts and you have provide it again. You guys rock! God bless you guys.

  • theguy

    Please advanced tutorials. There are too many basic out there.
    TUtorials about the: loop; widgets; plugins; etc..

  • Techeese

    1. Total Beginner tutorial about the system if it’s alright aside from reading the manual in WP
    2. Converting this type of functionality to be part of WP

  • xahy

    Everything from A to Z of wordpress please! :D

  • dan

    I dont know if this has been covered i have not read anyones post,. PLEASE add in a tut on how to install a downloaded wordpress theme (not from wordpress.com) and how to change everything from the color to the fonts on it :)

    also the best ftp program for mac or pc

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  • Andrea

    How to make a marketplace like themeforest :)

  • http://blog.lastrose.com LastRose

    A comparison of different frameworks (roots, thematic, bones, etc)

  • Michael

    As WordPress is based on PHP I would like a tutorial or two – ( to be used as a reference as much as anything) which covers the key aspects of PHP as commonly used in WordPress themes and plug ins…..

    On many WordPress answer forums the questions are more often than not raised because of peoples general lack of PHP knowledge ..and although it is not a direct WordPress topic it is the fabric on which WordPress is built

    NetTuts + does at times cover PHP but relates it more to CodeIgnighter, PHPCake etc rather than WordPress

    Copy/Paste of code is no solution if you want to write and code plugins and themes yourself.

  • http://www.gralinnaea.com/ Grá Linnaea

    Hi,

    I’m in the process of converting my single instance WordPress site to multiple blogs (I have three or four concentrations and want to set up different blog instances and feeds for each, but all from a single homepage and navigation structure.)

    I’d love to see an article about setting up multi-blog wordpress sites and how to create a seamless homepage experience for them.

    Thanks!

    Grá

  • http://www.sahilmepani.com Sahil Mepani

    I’m really excited for this new site. I’m a huge fan of wordpress. I myself as a developer will be looking forward for In-dept tutorials related to Custom WordPress Theme Options. I know there are 2 on Nettuts. But they are not deep enough to create highly customizable theme.

  • http://cocktailogist.wordpress.com omega

    i’d love to get some insight into how to improve SEO on a wordpress site.

  • Patrick

    I’d like to see some attention given to the ComicPress plugin and how to customize it.

  • crystal

    I would like to know more about adding ad spaces and getting advertisers onto a wordpress site.

  • picasso

    hi, to simple a proffessional complete wordpress theme from scratch in vdeo tutorial supprot

  • http://luisf.com.br Luis Francisco

    How to create ur first widget…
    I think it’s something cool to learn

  • alex b

    Here is a good one. We are asked this almost on every project that we work on. A contact form on a WP site that will submit contact information data in to Microsoft SQL DB and be able to auto generate an ID for that contact. That is – WP site is sing a MySQL and contact form submits data entirely into a separate DB.

    Sometimes it’s a desperate project.

    Anyway, I am glad for tis addition. So, “Let’s get to it.”

  • http://fajarsylvana.com Fajar Sylvana

    How about wp Security (ex: .htaccess, htpasswd, etc), custom post type, custom menu admin, plugins, and advanced custom field, and Loop. That’s would be nice :)

  • http://mindlessandroid.wordpress.com/ Nelissa

    What widgets and other cool stuff to put in our blogs. :)

  • http://www.yourdigitalspace.com Swamykant

    Looking for tuts that can helps us to create advance wordpress themes and plugins :)

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  • manraj

    Really glad u guys have set up a site just for Word Press. Any chance of uploading videos of “How to install Word Press on a PC/Mac” or “How to build a Word Press Theme” ? I know there are going a be a lot of written tutorials but I think videos are going to be more effective.

  • http://www.xphias.com dawizkid

    I would like to see video tutorial on how to get video to play in the banners within WP themes.

    Also a video on how to create super menus would be great.

  • Matt

    Love to learn more about what the different parts of WP do and how they relate. Break it down! :)

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  • felipe

    first steps,
    photoshop to wordpress step by step

  • http://boylecreations.com Aidan Boyle

    I would love to see more on WordPress Site Security and Plugin Development. In that order too, internet security is serious business. Thanks!

  • http://www.anthonywoods.net Anthony Woods

    I would love a mixture of skill level in plugin development and also variety of theme developments and scenarios (e-commerce, music, buisness, games ect) to help aid design and themeing along with plugins associated with the scenarios!

  • https://plus.google.com/113191547514297527686/posts Richard James

    Please could you do a post on some advanced/unusual uses of the WordPress Loop. I am trying to build a theme in which I can order posts by how users have rated them and am not having much luck finding any info.

    Cheers!

  • http://la100rra.com.mx/blog/ LA100RRA

    I really like to see tutorials about child themes of Carrington framework, or tutorials about custom taxonomies and custom post types for dummies

  • http://tutspress.com/ Tutspress

    We need more tutorials for about WordPress theme design and SEO. Also i know ur guys will be going ROCK!

  • Loren

    Looking forward to this site! My vote would be to see more custom coding/PHP techniques for pushing WP just a little past its boundaries. For example I recently had a pretty tough time figuring out how to dynamically display “This is image X of Y” (1 of 4, etc) along with a foreach loop of image attachments.

    I do original theme development totally from scratch, using WP as a CMS, so anything along those lines would be appreciated.

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  • Milk_ng

    i would like to learn customize on plug-in effect like showcase, gallery, contact .. etc.

  • http://www.glossyicon.com/ rajveer

    There are heaps of sites offering tuts on wp these days. You can stand out from the crowd by offering free premium themes and customization codes. Also video tuts on site backup,transfer and restore would be of great help.

  • juanvi

    Hi, can you do tutorials on creating theme options with file upload, checkboxes, and dropdowns.

    More power to wptuts!!!!

  • sunday1309

    hey, I’m newbie in wp. i love to learn something from the beginning to create a website with wp :-)

  • Joseph Szymborski

    I’d love to see something on how to create a slideshow that’d update dynamically based on recent posts.

  • picasso

    a full video tutorial wordpress theme

  • http://unrelatedmedia.ca Neil Davidson

    A good tutorial series would be

    1) Integrating Eccommerce like paypal in to wordpress
    2) Controlling Subscriptions with WP
    3) Controlling User Privs based on Subscription type

  • http://www.kushagragour.in Kushagra Gour

    I would really like to see tutorial on customizing wp to a quiz site with registration options, user profiles, leaderboards etc.

  • http://www.aminahdesigns.com Mr. Haynes

    I would like to see a tut on creating additional image sizes, I can’t see to wrap my head around the add_image_size function.

  • Karim

    Congrats of the launch of the new website. Its said quite a few times before but i would like to see a “WordPress as a CMS” tut.

    What i do not understand is: if there are so many plugins out there that enable you to tweak your WordPress Blog into a CMS then why don’t the intelligent (open-source-loving) folks at WordPress/Automattic fork a new project called the “WordPressCMS” and compete with the likes of Joomla/Drupal etc.

    It would be great if there would be a Tut that describes how to create a CMS out of WordPress – with the needed plugins like

    page management,
    custom post types,
    custom menus etc.

    I’m someone who is using wordpress quite a lot. But – recently due to some other not-so-user-friendly CMSs im in a situation to decide wether to mould my WordPress into a CMS or make my own CMS with e.g Codeigniter with my proper needs.

    May be a community member wants to take the initiative and start such a series. Would be great to use WordPress as a CMS – mostly because its quite user-friendly.

    Thanx & Greets

    • http://unrelatedmedia.ca Neil Davidson

      Hello Karim,

      WordPress is a fully functional Content Management System (CMS). Plugins are simply enhancements that serve a specific function.

      WordPress is quickly passing Drupal, Joomla, Silverstripe, ModX and other open source CMS’ .

      While WordPress was originally built as a blogging engine with a very easy-to-use interface for the non-technical it’s origins remain the same. However, the ease of which the core functions can be incorporated to achieve unexpected results (like creating an e-commerce store with custom post types) have allowed plugin and theme developers to truly shine. No other current CMS does this and remains friendly to those not technically inclined.

      WordPress is friendly to users and quite fun for developers to work with. It is defined as a CMS because you can update any part of the website content you like with relative ease. So, in answer to your request for a tutorial series – it starts with creating themes. WordPress is already a CMS – themes are what make it excel!

      Good luck to you!

  • Dave

    i will tipps and tricks. not to many code more of functions.php tricks and little features.

  • Rocco

    Hi!

    I answer lately, but what I wish to see on WPtuts+ is a tutorial on how to create his own wordpress theme in local, and how parameter Dreamweaver for exemple, with some screenshots.

    Thanx a lot

  • Paul

    So Excited about this tuts site, use wp for every site I do,

    a few votes for a lot of whats above and one or two others:

    – Theming – beginning to advanced – definitely more advanced aspects would be great, but some basics that seem poorly covered previously on other sites, ie: a detailed tutorial on creating a styling comments, again from basic to advanced,

    – Creating various types of custom widgets and plugins

    – A tutorial on how to make a proper options page, using the settings API. +1000 using the conventional built in wordPress UI etc and maybe extending on previous tuts+ options page tutorials

    – clear explanations of everyday and the more obscure wp code, snippets are abundant, but clear explanations of how you would re-use that code in different cases seems lacking.

    – more use case theming tutorials, maybe guest developers sharing clever ways they’ve solved real world design challenges, ie: anyone setup a larger e-store with wp? record store? movie database? particularly considering the planning around how one would structure sites with more complex data relationships.

    Sites looking great already. thanks for the fantastic resources that all of your ‘tuts’ sites provide.

  • http://professionaldilettante.com Zach Hannes

    Please cover how to separate concerns, how to apply MVC or other design patterns to theme and plugin development. There are several plugins available for MVC wordpress development but they are poorly documented. A roll your own MVC wordpress theme would be a great tutorial.

    Thanks!

  • Qaysar

    Hello,

    Thank you for the oppertunity to give suggestions, I think their should a complete section on creating a wordpress theme from the backend to frontend and not just snippets.

    This is a great way for new and raw talent to learn some amazing techniques and if they have a focus point of what to do and how to do it, this would be a great advantage.

    To make it a complete series of tutorials creating a complete website and not snippets of different designs. Also on every tutorial to have the ability to download code and PSD files.

  • Anghel Gabriel

    Awesome.

    Great job guys.
    This is absolutly great stuff. I cannot wait to see this site grow full of wordpress knowledge.
    I realy know how hard it is to find a good wordpress toturial on how to make things happen.

    Cheers.

  • Zak

    I love that Envato has added this much-needed initiative to their lineup! You have a history of quality resources and this looks no different. I would love to see some projects in the following areas:

    1) SSL options for WP security
    2) How to update a theme after WP updates their current version, rendering my theme obsolete
    3) Using PSD mockups for coding the WP markup
    4) Social plugin integration (esp +1)
    5) Anything re: development of plugins, themes, and widgets

    …All tuts in layman’s terms.

    Cheers!

  • chaitanya

    +1 fro advanced themeing…

  • http://www.jacorre.com Josh

    I would like to see tutorials on working with dates within custom fields, such as what format they should be in, how to perform calculations with them, etc. Thanks!

  • Aaron

    My company has been using Elegant Themes and they have an epanel for settings. Which gives the clients the ability to adjust the color scheme of the theme by a drop down menu. I would like to learn how to create something like that. To be able to give clients the ability to change colors of themes by just clicking which color they would like would be great information to have once we start creating our own themes.

  • http://www.cgvector.com cgvector

    hi i am graphic designer my website is http://www.cgvector.com it’s in wordpress I would like to see the totally beginner tutorial which can help me thanks

  • http://www.schoolofwebcraft.com Trillamar

    The “Business” section is a little light right now, and that’s an area where I might light to contribute. How about how to videos that are marketing tutorials for wordpress? Topics could be

    - wordpress for service businesses: how to choose content for the home page
    - customizing a premium theme [e.g., Denoizzed's King Size]. This would require permission I’m guessing from the theme authors
    - wordpress themes + best practices for consultants
    - wordpress themes + best practices for authors
    - wordpress themes + best practices for ecommerce (clothing)

    These would be meta products to broaden the theme’s available market. A non-technical person would need to hire a tech person to install WP, but then the rest could be accomplished using a combo of standard WP101 tuts + theme-specific tuts.

  • http://www.priyeshdesign.co.uk Priyesh

    Hi wptuts+ team,

    I would love to see a tutorial about an SEO plugin; how to setup, the importance of meta tags and possibly the advantages of having SEO.

    Also further posts on free and premium WordPress Themes.

    Cheers,
    Priyesh

  • http://www.marbiedesign.nl/en Marja

    Hi All!

    I would REALLY LOVE a good explanation/walk through about multisite using subdomains and domain mapping.
    What I find are articles that for some reason take ages to explain how to activate multisite which is easy and only takes a few minutes.For some strange reason they then breeze over the domain mapping, dns, alias and wildcard domains settings, which according to me is the hard part for me as a designer (for non-developers, sys admins etc it’s probably easy).

    Kind Regards,
    Marja

  • Jack

    Mmm… I can’t fund how to make unlimited sidebars in my own wordpress theme… :/ i’ll give all for tutorial. :)

  • http://www.markmakingdesigns.co.za Mark

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE,

    You guys have answered most of my questions regarding wordpress (sometimes before I have even asked them)

    One thing I can’t find a decent tutorial on is how to create a custom login/rgister page without editing core wordpress files (preferably incorporating my themes look and feel)

    can you guys help?

  • RYan

    I would love to see more about development environments, such as staging and dev sites. I found this plugin and think it really givs wpmu an edge in the world of development and staging. Check out deploymint http://markmaunder.com/category/deploymint/

  • Cornell

    I would love to see a full tutorial on creating a custom blog with thesis theme framework. When I mean custom, I mean a designer/developer blog like the showcases on http://diythemes.com/

  • http://www.streamingwords.com.ar Gonzalo

    How to create Short Codes!

  • http://www.futuristicfreelancing.blogspot.com Ian

    I would like to see tuts on how to prepare you theme so as to pass themeforest’s inspection.

  • Ramin Kamal

    I would like to see more tutorials on how to add more features to comment box in wordpress. features like uploading images, videos, location tracking, maps, share on specific parts of the user account, public or private post, albums and so on.

  • aijaz siddique

    please make video tutorial to use jqurey on wordpress