This is a short and easy step-by-step guide to using the jQuery menu plugin, Superfish, developed by Joel Birch.
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Getting Started With BuddyPress
Best of Wptuts 2011: Every week through January, we’re going to revisit some of our favorite posts from 2011. With the recent popularity explosion of BuddyPress and a wide range of new BuddyPress themes available at ThemeForest, it makes good sense to kick off this 2011 recap with Adam Murray’s incredible BuddyPress series!
We’ve all worked hard to establish that WordPress is a great content management solution, but what about it’s social networking aspect? Today, I want to walk you through the basics of using BuddyPress, a social networking system built on top of the WordPress platform. Learning how to use this will add a really valuable item to your field of knowledge, especially as clients want social integration more and more every day.
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Writing Maintainable WordPress Widgets: Part 1 of 2
Best of Wptuts 2011: Every week through January, we’re going to revisit some of our favorite posts from 2011. Plugin development can often feel like the wild west if you’re creating something from scratch without a boilerplate or a similar plugin to work from – Tom’s 2 part series on Maintainable WordPress Widgets/Plugins offers some practical guidelines that should keep you on the tracks!
When it comes to software development, frameworks and libraries are popular because they’re helpful, right? They provide a consistent way to write and organize code in hopes of making development and maintenance as easy as possible.
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Create a TwitterRSS Stats Widget for WordPress
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of setting up a widget, its settings form, and displaying it on your site. At the end of the tutorial, you can download an example plugin to build from. Of course, you can apply this to your themes as well.
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Create a “Mashable-Inspired” Sidebar Social Widget for WordPress
I’ve had a lot of requests lately to share a tutorial on how I created the sidebar widget on my personal blog. It looks nice and most important, it works! With some simple PHP and CSS, I’m sure everybody can implement this on their blogs easily. Today I’m going to show you how to create mine… in hopes that you’ll be able to create your own custom version for your own projects!
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Add the WordPress RSS Feed Anywhere In Your Theme
If you’re looking for a way to display RSS feeds anywhere on your site and you’re using WordPress then you’ll be happy to hear about this trick. You know about the WordPress RSS widget… but what if displaying a feed in the sidebar is not enough. This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and put it anywhere in your theme, including a page or post template. This is a great solution for you folks out there using RSS feed generators (say goodbye to small footer credits) or plugins (say hello to a faster website)!
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Display & Style Related Posts For Your WordPress Site
Displaying related posts is a great way to keep readers on your blog and this tutorial will show you how to achieve just this! There are definitely many related posts plugins out there that would be great to use, however I couldn’t find any plugins that fit exactly what I needed. So after a lot of reading and researching, here’s what I ended up with that’s helped me on a ton of my client’s projects including my own. Here I will show you how to program a custom WordPress loop that will display your related posts with thumbnails.
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Building An Awesome Flickr Widget: Screencast Included
WordPress’s Widget API makes building widgets for WordPress a breeze. With four simple yet powerful functions, you can generate a lovely little form for the user, grab whatever the user enters, store that information, and use it elsewhere to generate some awesome code.
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WordPress 101 Video Training Part 12: Widgets
Welcome to the WPtuts+ WordPress 101 tutorial series. This video will walk you through how to use widgets in WordPress. This is a great video for those just getting started with WordPress, and can also be helpful for advanced users that want to offer some help to their clients. Join us and begin effectively managing your sites content and how it’s displayed today. This is Part 11 of our in depth WordPress training series provided by WP101.
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This entry is part 12 of 17 in the WP101 Basix Training Session
Create a Basic Flickr Widget Using the Widget API
In this tutorial, we will be using the WordPress widget API and the Flickr API to create a basic Flickr widget. The widget will be a multiple-use widget; it asks the user for a username and number of pictures to display, and uses that information to display Flickr photos. There are lots of pre-built plugins out there that work with Flickr, but nothing’s beats making it yourself if you’re looking to take another step in your WordPress education!
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