When building your first WordPress website, the primary step is to find a domain name and register it.
It doesn’t really matter where you buy the domain from with regards to WordPress, but not all registrars are equal. When choosing a registrar you need to consider their prices, interfaces, and
The Internet has opened the doors for blog owners to do business and connect with people overseas. Distance is no longer a barrier, but language is. If you want to connect with people in different countries, you can tear down the language barrier by creating a multilingual WordPress blog. You
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.
I’ve recently bought a Macbook Pro 13″ for development when I’m not sitting at my desk. This is my first experience with Apple and till now I’m delighted with my Macbook.
Since I still use Windows on my desktop system, one of the first things I needed to do was
I recently came across the excellent online learning site Udemy.com, and I was pleased to find a number of WordPress-related courses. Here are some of the best I’ve found, hopefully they will also help you learn more about WordPress.
Many plugin and theme developers fail to properly prepare their plugins and themes for localization.
I suspect that rather than an unwillingness on their part to do this important task, it’s instead a case of getting confused about what’s needed.
So let me give you some examples to show how
The Reviews feature introduced on WordPress.org a few months ago was definitely a welcome addition to the repository, however I see too many people abusing it lately, especially for those plugins which are very popular. I suspect that some people expect that because the plugin is so famous they only
Here’s some of the best tutorials and resources for building custom meta boxes that I’ve come across in the past two years. I’m posting them here to have a handy reference for all those building plugins and themes.
Here’s a quick code snippet by Bill Erickson that lets you move and rename the featured image metabox for your custom post type.
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