Welcome to Basix, our area for beginners. If you're just learning the ropes, or find many of our intermediate and advanced tutorials too challenging, the tutorials and articles here have been selected just for you.
A few years back I was just really getting into WordPress plugin development when I stumbled upon an outstanding little exercise that taught me a lot of the basics of plugin creation. I started with this very simple idea: creating a handy little plugin which generates a quote randomly to the description of the current theme. Today, I’m going to revisit the plugin that really helped me get my feet wet by walking you guys/gals through how to do it yourself.
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If you haven’t had the chance to use the WordPress Gallery Shortcode in the past, this is going to be a great starting out point for you. For others who have used it, we are going to be covering some features of the shortcode that you might not have considered yet. In this tutorial we will be covering a specific WordPress shortcode, and the different ways to use it.
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Best of Wptuts 2011: Every week through January, we’re going to revisit some of our favorite posts and series from 2011. The WP101 series by Shawn Hesketh was a landmark… not because it broke new ground for the advanced users in the community, but because it essentially formed a free training series that you can hand over to your clients to show them the ropes of using WP! Don’t have the time to show a particular client how to use a particular feature? No problem, this series has you covered!
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Whether you’re creating a WordPress theme for sale, for a client, or for your own site, having a good naming structure and taxonomy for your theme files is important. It not only helps you keep your site files clean and organized for yourself, but provides a quick reference for other developers who may be viewing the files for the first time.
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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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An archives page is great way of linking to all of your important archives such as monthly archives and category archives on one dedicated page. It’s a great alternative to simply linking to your older posts in your sidebar and footer. Surprisingly, a lot of themes out there don’t include one by default… so today, we’re going to show you a quick way of building one from scratch.
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Using a custom post thumbnail or featured image function for your posts and pages in WordPress has been a well known trick for a while now. You can use it to create content sliders or other related functions which enhance the overall look of a WordPress site… but using such features can sometimes give you some trouble (or at least I have experienced some difficulties), especially when I’m updating my blog from my mobile device using WordPress for Android or WordPress for BlackBerry. Today, I’m going to show you a few tricks that have helped me out in the past – hopefully they’ll help you out as well!
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The conditional statements feature is an extremely useful and powerful feature in WordPress; still it remains unused in the development process. You can achieve many things by the simple and smart use of these statements. Sometimes when you need specific text or a unique image to appear on a specific page and not on any other pages in your site, by using conditional statements along with WordPress conditional tags you can achieve this easily without creating multiple pages or templates.
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WordPress Basix Article! Most major WordPress blogs nowadays are using permalinks (otherwise known as “pretty” URLs); WordPress gives us a few great tools for setting them up quickly and easily… but what do you really know about them? That’s what we’ll be exploring today. WordPress offers a bunch of options to “beautify” your permalinks from the standard question mark-prefixed number to a feigned path-style URL.
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WordPress continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but you can change it however you want. In this tutorial, we will go over how to change the fonts of your theme using a plugin. You can use either Google Web Fonts our your own custom fonts.
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