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Creating Custom Fields for Attachments in WordPress

August 21, 2010 Tutorial Blog No comments

Custom fields in WordPress make it easy to customize your theme in a variety of ways; plus, they are simple to implement for posts and pages. Attachments, on the other hand, take a bit more work to implement, requiring you to read through and decipher core source code in order to make them work. We’ll be walking through the use of a couple undocumented WordPress hooks in this Tutorial to make this process much easier.

How to Write a “Most Popular By Views” WordPress Plugin

July 17, 2010 Tutorial Blog No comments

As you continue writing for WordPress more and more, the level of difficulty and complexity of your plugins will eventually reach far beyond the simple back-end data manipulation, as demonstrated in our beginner’s article. In this installment we’ll cover in-depth: database interaction, Admin Widgets, and Sidebar Widgets. Today’s example will be a custom built “Most Popular by Views” plugin, which creates an admin area widget for us to view, and a sidebar widget for visitors to see.

Build a WordPress Plugin to Add Author Biographies to your Posts

May 23, 2010 Tutorial Blog No comments

Many popular blogs these days are authored by multiple contributors. Today, we’ll create a simple WordPress plugin that will allow us to add the post author’s biography to the conclusion of each post, much like you see on Nettuts.

Quick Tip: Making a Fancy WordPress Register Form from Scratch

May 20, 2010 Tutorial Blog No comments

In this Tutorial, I will guide you through the process of making a beautiful “Register” form, using Fancybox, jQuery, and, of course, WordPress. As you’ll find, the process is really quite simple.

WordPress 2.7 Cookbook + Free E-Books!

December 14, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

Packt Publishing recently sent me a review copy of “WordPress 2.7 Cookbook.” I’m a huge fan of the cookbook line; they’re similar to a huge string of quick tips. So if you don’t have time to read for an hour straight, you can always pick up a web dev cookbook and learn a few neat techniques within minutes.

10 More WordPress Hacks for Easy Life

December 06, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

This post is a continuation of the “WordPress Hacks” posts that I wrote earlier.
10 WordPress Hacks to Make your Life Easy
10 WordPress Hacks to Make your Life even Easier
If you liked those, you will love this one. Here goes

20+ Brand New and Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins

December 04, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, “WordPress is infinitely extensible” as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we’ll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

Tabbed Content using jQuery and WP_Query

November 28, 2009 1 Comment

In this Tutorial, we’ll take the WordPress Newspaper Layout we worked on previously and extend it with tabs.

Add Thumbnail to Post Using 2 Different Methods

November 12, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

Ever wanted to learn how to add a thumbnail to your WordPress post? In this Tutorial I will go over the basic fundamentals of adding a WordPress thumbnail to your post. We will use two examples in this Tutorial.