Ever wrote a “post series” on your blog? If you did, you probably needed to add the links of the other parts of the series into the latest post you wrote. Each time you finished a new part, you had to update the link list of the other parts. There has to be an easier way, right?
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In this tutorial, we are going to create a widget that will display sites from a WordPress Network of sites. This short tutorial will show you how simple it is, to create a widget and use it to navigate to different network sites.
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Menu items, pages and (hierarchical) taxonomies are all examples of data with a tree like structure: terms can have parents, children and siblings. Usually we would like to reflect this structure in the HTML markup. For displaying a menu, for instance, we want the HTML to be of a list of ‘top level’ links, with nested lists of their children, which themselves contain nested lists of their children, and so on. This tutorial will guide you through a class WordPress provides which makes producing this mark-up extremely simple.
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At WP Engine, we are often asked for email hosting recommendations. Unless it’s an enterprise client with hundreds or thousands of accounts, we recommend Google Apps for email. Gmail has done email so well that it doesn’t make sense to get email anywhere else, especially when gmail is free.
This tutorial will help you set up Gmail for a unique domain name for your business, blog, or whatever you’ve built on WordPress: yourname@yourdomain.com.
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We’ve reached the final article of the series. In the last post, we took a look at introducing validation, sanitization, and a couple of basic input elements that we can take advantage of when building option pages.
In this article, we’re going to take a look at the final set of three options and how to hook them up to the front-end of the theme.
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At work we previously used KBPublisher to manage our knowledge base. It costed money, it was hard to style, code is encrypted with ion cube and so on, basically very hard to maintain. WordPress can do the same things and even better.
This tutorial will show you how to use custom taxonomies for knowledge base sections and custom posts for knowledge base articles.
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Learn how to create a simple, automatically generated image gallery plugin with thumbnail navigation for WordPress. The end result is a simple, attractive gallery with thumbnail navigation that is created automatically whenever you upload images to a post or page. No special settings, no options to configure, no hoops to jump through – it just works!
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A common request, particularly for those who have created custom post types like ‘News’ or ‘Events’, is to add a link to their post type’s archive page on their navigation menu. Currently, however, this can only be done by manually entering the post type archive URL. Apart from being fairly inelegant, this solution has a few drawbacks: it doesn’t always appear as ‘current’, if you change your permalink structure it could break the link, manually adding the URLs is tedious and the link does not appear as ‘current’ when on a post of that post type.
In this tutorial I will show you how to produce a plugin that creates a meta-box on your Appearance -> Menu page which allows you to add post type archive links. These links don’t suffer from the drawbacks mentioned above.
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This tutorial will demonstrate how you can easily share Adsense Ad space with your authors. It would be quite useful in attracting new authors to blog on your site, in return for some Adsense revenue for what they’ve written.
The tutorial is only a stepping stone to a more feature rich site for your writers and users. Discover how to add extra user fields and how to manipulate them on your site.
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If you’re just now joining us, we’ve covered a lot of topics in this series – we’ve attempted to give a complete overview of the WordPress Settings API as well as its related functions. We’ve discussed settings, options, navigation, and menus. We’ve also been working through practical examples employing each of the topics we’ve discussed.
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