Did you know that WordPress provides a number of debugging tools for you? These are especially useful for theme and plugin developers. We can also find some plugins which can be helpful in debugging our WordPress code. In this post we take a look at WordPress in-built features as well as some great plugins for debugging.
Here is a sample theme options page that you can use for creating your own theme options.
Code snippet that checks if a page has any children/subpages.
With WordPress hooks you can easily add default content to new posts, if you are repeatedly entering some content into all your posts this is a great productivity aid.
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Learn how to group frequently used custom functions into re-usable plugins and check out the magic of the mu-plugins WordPress folder in this tutorial.
JQuery and other JavaScript frameworks are very commonly used in WordPress themes and plugins, but not all developers load them correctly. Learn how to properly load them using the wp_enqueue_script function in WordPress.
HTML 5 is now more like the present than the future, and WordPress theme developers should stand up and take notice. Why not try and implement HTML 5 in your next WordPress project. We bring you all the resources you will need to get started immediately with HTML and WordPress.
In this article we explore the various PHP IDE options available for editing WordPress files and building themes and plugins. We expand on our two winners: Notepad++ and Netbeans for PHP.
Changing the order of posts is something very convenient within a WordPress blog, and thankfully we’ve always had a few plugins that did the job very well, even providing us with an Ajax interface which made this task really easy and intuitive.
Want to remove the useless /category/ from your WordPress categories permalinks? If yes, put this code in your functions.php and you’re done!
WordPress 3 comes with the ability to create Custom Post Types, which makes it very simple for us developers to extend WordPress and use it as a proper CMS for any business need. Apart from the default Posts and Pages, we can now create custom types to better suit our content, and make it easier for users to update the site. In this guide we explore many options for creating custom post types and custom meta boxes to go with them.
All the options currently available for turning off commenting on WordPress pages, posts or custom post types. Check out the various alternatives and choose the one you like best.
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