Delve into WordPress development, a key theme for coders and tech enthusiasts. It covers advanced topics like theme and plugin development, custom coding, API integration, and performance optimization. This theme is tailored for developers seeking to build, customize, and enhance WordPress sites with technical expertise and innovative solutions.
WordPress is a nice platform, but setting up a fresh install or doing maintenance work can be a bit of a hassle. Especially when you need a fresh install every odd week or-so (like me), or you have a lot of WordPress sites to maintain (again; like me). That’s why
In the last couple of years WordPress has grown into the biggest publishing platform on the web. With more and more users, security has become a real challenge. I’d like to be clear; WordPress core is one of the most secure software packages out there. Most of the security issues
Displaying a date on your blog posts is recommended, both for search engines and also for your audience.
Most blogs display the post publish date, which you would think makes sense. But I think there’s a better way of doing it, and that is by displaying the last updated date.
Custom Post Types and Custom Fields were the two features that really transformed WordPress from a simple blogging tool to a fully-fledged CMS. Many still think that custom post types and custom fields are hard to implement, but today I’m going to give you two plugins that will make you
Here’s how to change the order of taxonomy metaboxes within a custom post type.
If you’re just starting out with Git, make sure you take a look at the following pages.
As we all know, the Settings API is fantastic for building plugin and theme options and settings pages. There are countless tutorials about it, and we also highlighted some of the best ones in a recent post. A plugin that uses this well is Soliloquy (a really robust slider plugin).
One of the marks of a truly great WordPress developer, is his ability to include excellent commenting in his code. Go ahead, take a look at some of the plugins/themes by the best developers, and see how easy it is to read through their code. They adhere to the WordPress
Although WordPress is a system that performs well in general, it’s worth delving a bit deeper into performance considerations when building plugins and themes for general distribution. You never know who will be using your plugin or theme, it might be a site with thousands of posts. At that level,
The current trend in plugin development is all about having a core plugin and then developing other addons. But how do you prevent an addon plugin being activated when the core (parent) plugin is not activated?
The Settings API is essential when building themes and plugins.
Since many of our readers are doing just that, I thought I’d share with you the best resources on this excellent API.
Many WordPress developers are trying out their luck with selling themes on places like Themeforest or on their own site. Although it certainly seems like a crowded space, there is a lot of growth potential, in my opinion. Just take a look at one of our recent posts, where we
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