In my last article, we learned a new way to use Bitly URLs in WordPress. In most of these cases we usually edit our functions.php file. Today we’ll learn a new method for how we can keep our functions.php file nice and clean by using a modular approach.
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WordPress is a great platform to build customized websites in a very efficient way. WordPress manages all this magic in only 11 database tables. wp_options is one of the tables and it acts as the mind of a WordPress powered website.
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If you Google “add extra fields to WordPress user profile” you’ll find all sorts of involved coding examples for adding extra inputs to the user profile page so you can capture additional user information. But if all you want to do is expand the default contact methods section then there’s a much simpler way to go.
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Sometimes we have a page just for the sake of making it a parent of other pages. I’ve even seen these pages left blank! You should at least have a small paragraph for the sake of search engines and visitors alike, but what about also offering a snippet of the subpages to read similar to how your blog page does posts?
In this quick tip, we’ll create a little function that will query the page for child pages, display titles, excerpts and links if it finds any, and add it to a shortcode for use from the WordPress page editor.
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There’s nothing worse than scrolling through a long post or page when it’s obvious that it should have been broken into a series of more easily-digested chunks. It’s very easy to accomplish in WordPress and more people should do it. Here’s how you can.
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“How to Utilize Akamai CDN on Your WordPress Site Without Busting Your Bank Account” Sounds impressive? It is! I have found a solution to integrate the Akamai CDN without having me to pay a lot, thus making CDN affordable to a lot more people. It still isn’t free and it won’t work for every webhost/CDN setup, but it’s definitely cheaper than some CDN setups… and it might just work for you!
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The dashboard is somewhat the heart of a blog. It controls all the content and the options of your blog. But, as we know, WordPress is not a custom product specific to one type of blog, but rather something that has been created to accommodate a wide variety of bloggers. Therefore, the contents of the dashboard can be pretty generic and might need a bit of customizing to be optimized for your website’s type. This is where plugins and tweaks come in. Today, we’ll take a look at some methods of customizing parts of your dashboard.
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Today we’re going to go over user permissions within the scope of your plugin. Specifically, I’ll discuss what you should be using to determine who can see the various admin menus of your plugin.
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Today, we’re going to look at how to use shortcodes in conjunction with a variety of popular services – including sites like YouTube and Flickr by first recapping how to create a shortcode, and then how to convert that third-party code into something that can be repeated and manipulated.
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There has been a lot of talk recently about standards, guidelines, and best practices when it comes to developing WordPress themes (and plugins too, for that matter). I noticed a good post on the ThemeShaper blog (ThemeShaper are Automattic’s theme team) specifically calling on theme authors to pay attention to code quality, not just aesthetics, when developing themes. There’s also been some discussion on the CodeCanyon marketplace forums about how to include jQuery in your theme or plugin. So I thought a quick post to help point to resources and further raise awareness wouldn’t go astray on WP.TutsPlus.
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