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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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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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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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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If you’ve got a plug-in hosted on the WordPress repository then you’ll be fairly familiar with SVN and some of its commands. In this tutorial I’ll show you how you can use Git, another version control system popularised by GitHub, to publish and maintain your plug-in.
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Let’s see how can we make a very simple plugin showing some latest posts from a Twitter account.
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As you probably already know, WordPress has a mechanism that detects plugins, themes and the WordPress core updates, makes a notification when they are available, pulls information about these updates and enables you to automatically install these updates. This third (and final) part of the WordPress HTTP API series will teach you how to create your own plugin repository to distribute automatic updates for your users.
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In Part 3 of this series, we surveyed the various menu functions that the WordPress API provides. If you’ve been following along, then you know that we’ve already setup a settings page for our theme by using the add_theme_page function. Although introducing menus and submenus aren’t explicitly part of the Settings API, they play a role in building custom functionality, plugins, and/or themes.
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In the first part, we touched on the basics of the WordPress HTTP API and how to make a simple GET request and read the response. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about the PayPal Express Checkout API and how to build a class that uses the HTTP API to process payments with PayPal. Preferably, you will have some knowledge of what PayPal is and also a Sandbox account (which is free and easy to get). We’ve done this as a plugin to show how the PayPal class works and ease making the HTTP requests.
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