prettyPhoto is a lightbox plugin made by Stéphane Caron. Today we’re going to learn how to ship the plugin with your WordPress themes.
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Creating a Random Quote Plugin for WordPress
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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Simple Plugin Which Lets Users Upload Files Into Your Dropbox Folder
Today we will write a plugin which allows your users to send their files to you, to your Dropbox account. It might be needed for several purposes; For example, if you provide a contest for your readers, they might need to send you some files that you want partitioned off on a unique folder location in Dropbox. In short, this plugin is for receiving files, which must not be made public yet, which must be reviewed by you.
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CodeCanyon Yearly Roundup! Eleven Fantastic WordPress Plugins from 2011
CodeCanyon hosts some great premium WordPress plugins and 2011 has brought some great new ones to the table. Of the several hundred plugins available on CodeCanyon in 2011, these are just a few of the most popular and highest rated ones.
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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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7 Simple Rules: WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices
We’ve been talking a lot about “Best Practices” here on Wptuts lately. Today, we’ll cover some important best practices for creating a WordPress plugin. From security tips to namespacing tricks, follow these rules and you’ll do no wrong. Whether you’re a budding new plugin developer or a time-tested veteran, these simple rules and suggestions will make you a better developer (and the community will thank you for it!)
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How To Localize WordPress Themes and Plugins
In 5 Cardinal Sins of WordPress Theme Development, we briefly spoke about the significance of localizing themes and plugins but we didn’t actually discuss how to do it. If you’re in the commercial theme or plugin space, then it’s almost expected that your work will support multiple languages. In the this article, we’ll take a look at understanding what localization really is, why it’s important, and what steps are necessary to localize your project.
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Top WordPress Plugins from CodeCanyon: November Edition
WordPress is a powerful content management system, and the vast array of plugins available certainly helps. CodeCanyon has long been a great place to find top WordPress plugins. From content and security to galleries and sliders, there’s plenty to choose from. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the most popular WordPress plugins available at CodeCanyon.
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Create Your Own Custom Twitter Plugin for WordPress
You just published an amazing post on your WordPress blog and would like to tell everybody about that. Do you have a Twitter account? Then let’s develop a plugin which whenever you save a new post on WordPress automatically tweets, letting all your followers know that they can find something new on your blog. Let’s get started!
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Allow Users To Submit Images To Your WordPress Site
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a plugin that allows users to submit images and upload them to the WordPress media library. You’ll also learn how to correctly delete images from the WordPress media library as well as do some basic validation on uploaded images.
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