WordPress shortcodes are used frequently in plugins and themes as a way to achieve extra functionality, without the need to modify template files. You just type the shortcode word right into your post. Some plugins and themes use them to add event calendars, some for making.
Ever thought you could make some improvements to your RSS feed? Like letting it cover more (or less!) content? Or adding some extra details onto the end of your posts? In this post, I'm going to show you how to do exactly that.
In one of my recent freelance works, I had to play a lot with categories. I was looking for an easy way to get a category slug using an ID, and I found this great function that I'd like to share with you today.
There are a lot of sites out there, particularly digital education sites, such as Net Tuts and Blender Cookie, that push out a lot of "premium" content that is only accessible to registered users. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you some of the basics of writing a WordPress plugin from scratch that will allow you to restrict content on your site to registered users.
In this tutorial I will teach you how to quickly create an admin panel for your WP theme and how to add color pickers to easily change the color of your website headings, links and text.
In this post, I want to show you how to use transients, we're going to build a simple script that will list the latest commenter on your blog, along with their avatar.
WordPress makes it straightforward to create a gallery from the images attached to a post. Just a couple of clicks and the gallery shortcode will be inserted into your post for you. Why not make it even easier though? In this post, I will walk you through adjusting your theme to automatically insert a gallery after every post.
Do you ever wished to be able to automatically send an email to your registered users and notify them of a new post on your WordPress blog? If yes, just read this recipe and lear how to do it easily!
If you ever had error that reads \"Allowed memory size of xxx bytes exhausted\", then you need to increase WordPress memory limit. This can be done very easily and may solve really frustrating problems.
If you want to be able to keep a minimum word count for your posts, then just read this recipe. Applying it to your blog can be useful to maintain a clean layout, or ensure your guest writers will not post too short articles on your blog.