Mastering WordPress Development: The “WordPress Development” tag is dedicated to the art and science of creating and customizing WordPress websites. From theme development and plugin creation to custom coding and performance optimization, this tag covers a wide spectrum of development topics. Ideal for developers, designers, and advanced WordPress users, it offers insights, tutorials, and best practices for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with WordPress, ensuring your sites are both powerful and unique.
As you probably know the best way to load scripts in WordPress is to use the wp_enqueue_script() function. However the process for loading scripts is slightly different depending on where you’re calling the script from.
Here’s some neat code that will enable TinyMCE within your excerpts box. You can now insert links and other HTML into your excerpts.
This code should be inserted into your theme’s functions.php, or better still create a plugin out of it.
It may be handy at times to be able to remove or modify the wording on the Bulk actions dropdown in WordPress. Learn how to do it!
Learn how to execute code specifically when a plugin is upgraded.
I’ll be honest here, until recently, while I had been building WordPress queries on a daily basis, I still really didn’t know the way the WordPress query is build and the best way to modify it. Go through this article and you’ll be sure to learn some new things that will help you develop better themes and plugins.
Plugins hosted on the WordPress repository enjoy a very neat and integrated update procedure whereby as soon as you upload a new version of the plugin, the users will get a notification in their dashboard saying that there is a new version available.
However if on the other hand your plugin is not hosted on the repository, you might be wondering if you can achieve the same thing. As you might have guessed, the answer is yes!
If you’ve ever asked “How can I contribute to WordPress?” then go check out the WordPress Core Contributor Handbook.
Time and time again we’ve heard that one of the downsides of WordPress is the plugins area. Mind you, it’s also one of its strongest advantages. However there are loads of plugins that are difficult to use, and given that most WordPress users rely on plugins to achieve what they need, we must do something to help them.
An important aspect of keeping your plugin well organised is to create a file and folder structure that makes sense.
I’ve recently done some research on how the leading plugin developers are structuring their plugins, and would like to share this with you.
Starting this page as a repository for resources that can help you with creating great plugins taking into consideration best practices.
A quick tip for our readers today. I’ve received a question asking me to explain the difference between the Settings API and Options API when developing WordPress plugins.
We had visited this topic a while ago when reviewing DesktopServer, however I just came across another method which I’d like to share with you.
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