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Understanding the Walker Class

Understanding the Walker Class

Stephen Harris on May 14th 2012 with 8 comments

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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Building Custom WordPress Widgets

Building Custom WordPress Widgets

Bilal Shaheen on Apr 25th 2012 with 5 comments

Building WordPress widgets is just like building a plugin but it is more simple and straightforward. All you need to do is have a single file in which all the PHP goes and it’s easier to code than a plugin which can have more than one file. There are three major functions of a widget which can be broken down into widget, update and form.

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Image Gallery With Custom Sized Images (Bonus jQuery Plugin)

Image Gallery With Custom Sized Images (Bonus jQuery Plugin)

Robert Călin on Apr 22nd 2012 with 8 comments

As I promised in my previous article, here is the tutorial on creating a gallery out of the custom sized images. As a bonus you’ll learn how to create a basic jQuery plugin to present the larger sized image of the thumbnail in a more appealing way.

If you did not read my previous article about custom image sizes, please read it so it will be easier to understand this tutorial.

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Tips to Customize and Optimize Your Blog’s Feed

Tips to Customize and Optimize Your Blog’s Feed

Barış Ünver on Apr 10th 2012 with 19 comments

When we design our blogs, we tend to forget our visitors/users who’re following us with their feed readers. In this tutorial, we’re going to learn to “hack” our blog’s feed for a better feed reading experience for our users.

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Custom Post Type Helper Class

Custom Post Type Helper Class

Gijs Jorissen on Apr 9th 2012 with 37 comments

For a lot of WordPress projects these days we use custom post types. The WordPress development team created some handy methods to integrate them into your projects. But when you use custom post types, taxonomies and meta boxes frequently, it’s quite probable that you’re going to repeat yourself. That’s why we are going to use the power of these WordPress functions to build a more powerful class, which we can use to quickly register post types, taxonomies and meta boxes.

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WordPress and PayPal: An Introduction

WordPress and PayPal: An Introduction

Alistair Rossini on Apr 5th 2012 with 26 comments

For this tutorial we will go through the steps involved to integrate PayPal as your Payment Service Provider for a WordPress powered site. Working with Custom Post Types we will create a basic shopping cart and allow for payments to be taken via PayPal. Whilst the worked example is functional, you should take further steps to sanitise and store data when working with payments.

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Sharing the WordPress Love With Non-Image Media Attachments

Sharing the WordPress Love With Non-Image Media Attachments

Naomi Bush on Apr 3rd 2012 with 14 comments

While WordPress easily displays images attached to your pages and posts (even without an attachment.php file), the other allowed media types (audio, video, document, text, archive, code, interactive) don’t get the same love – save a direct link to the attachment file. But, you don’t have to resort to uploading your audio, video, or other non-image media attachments elsewhere (like YouTube) in order to display them on your WordPress site. Using the default Twenty Eleven theme as an example, I’ll show you WordPress’ built-in functions for sharing the love with non-image media attachments.

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How to Add Social Media Icons to Your Sidebar, Without Using a Plugin

How to Add Social Media Icons to Your Sidebar, Without Using a Plugin

Jeff Long on Mar 29th 2012 with 25 comments

Social media should be a critical part of your website in that you can share your website articles with your followers and interact with them through your social media channels. You should consider putting social media icons on your website so visitors can learn more about you and follow, like or friend you on these social media outlets.

It is simple to add social media icons with a plugin. But this tutorial will show you how to add social media icons the customized way. Adding these icons in this way is critical if you are creating your own icons for your website. Plus, customizing your website without using a plugin is a satisfying experience!

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Using WordPress and Flash Together

Using WordPress and Flash Together

Ivaylo Gerchev on Mar 25th 2012 with 11 comments

Although making a website completely based on Flash is not such a good idea for a variety of reasons, that doesn’t mean you must not use Flash at all. I like to think about Flash as a spice. Putting some spices here and there could improve the taste of your website making it more pleasant and interactive for your visitors. Of course, as we all know, putting too many spices in our dish can bring problems. So, Flash should be used in moderation. Let’s see how this can be done.

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Customizing Your WordPress Admin

Customizing Your WordPress Admin

Chris Ensell on Mar 24th 2012 with 23 comments

The backend of WordPress is one of the better ones out there. However, depending on your needs, the menu can be a little crowded with fluff that you just don’t want or need there.

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to tame your admin menu. I will show you how to rename menus, reorder the menus, or just plain eliminate them without touching core. Because touching core is bad.

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