Category Archives: Tutorials

9 May 12

How to use Ajax in WordPress | Smashing WordPress

Smashing WordPress explains how to use Ajax with WordPress

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8 Apr 12

Quick Tip: Make Your Custom Column Sortable | Wptuts+

In this quick tip I build on a previous article, about adding columns to your post or custom post type admin, by showing how to make your new columns sortable.

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27 Mar 12

WP_List_Table – a step by step guide – WP Engineer

Throughout WordPress the class WP_List_Table is used to display data, e.g. users, plugins, comments, or posts. The class contains almost all necessary methods for displaying, sorting, paginating, and searching data and and what is more obvious than to use it for your own ...

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22 Mar 12

Body Class Tricks For WordPress Sites

Use the WordPress body_class function to target a visitor's browser, add the category name to a single post and add color schemes to your theme.

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19 Feb 12

Inside WordPress Actions and Filters | Smashing WordPress

Explore WordPress actions and filters in-depth with this detailed walkthrough and tutorial on core WP functionality.

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16 Feb 12

How to Include JavaScript and CSS in Your WordPress Themes and Plugins | Wptuts+

The proper way to include JS and CSS files in your WordPress theme. Not following best practices could conflict with other themes and plugins, causing problems.

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1 Feb 12

Implement Google Custom Search into WordPress | Tutorial | .net magazine

WordPress has a search function which has developers opinions split. Freelancer Paul Maloney shows us how to replace the search function with a super powered Google Custom Search engine

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29 Jan 12

Alternative Use of Google App Engine for Optimizing WordPress | Wptuts+

I'm looking for a solution to optimize my site, in very cheap way, often the CDN is a good solution but not cheap, so I used GAE as CDN and Ubuntu.

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27 Jan 12

5 Must-Know Tips for Better WordPress User Management

WordPress is a great tool to use for managing content. It's really simple for developers, for managers and for users to use, especially when using a great theme. But if there is one thing that I think

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25 Jan 12

WordPress Theme Files Execution Hierarchy | Wptuts+

This article will show the WordPress theme files execution hierarchy. You will come to know about which files WordPress will search for while serving the theme.

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24 Jan 12

Speed up your WordPress site the right way with this ultimate guide | Wptuts+

In this tutorial we will cover all aspects of W3 caching, ySlow, Google page speed, CSS sprites & htaccess rules, to achieve a high ySlow score.

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21 Jan 12

Create Complex WordPress Websites With WP Types & Views

Amir Helzer contacted me yesterday about two plugins he has developed. Types is a free custom fields, custom taxonomy and custom post type management plugi

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20 Jan 12

How to Build a Custom WordPress Theme from Scratch

If you're confident with your CSS and HTML, it's not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the

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18 Jan 12

Display PHP Errors as Admin Alerts | Wptuts+

The PHP language is widely adopted for many web applications like WordPress. Today lets explore one of the my favorite features of PHP.

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Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website – Smashing WordPress | Smashing WordPress

Make your website's emails look awesome with this complete guide to customizing WordPress emails with complete control over all the details.

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17 Jan 12

Build A Coming Soon Page In Minutes With The QuickLaunch WordPress Theme

Noel Saw from WPVerse released a cool free WordPress theme last week entitled QuickLaunch. The design is a place holder for websites that haven't launched

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16 Jan 12

Integrate Custom Google Search Engine to Your WordPress Site | Templatic

Google Custom Search is a great way to save on some bandwidth and see how your pages look on Google. Those who don’t want to use WordPress default search can

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The Ultimate WordPress Theme Development Glossary

» The Ultimate WordPress Theme Development Glossary | Wordpress Blog, Themes, Plugins & Tutorials.

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13 Jan 12

20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques

Usually, Graphs and Charts are mainly used for representing and organizing a set of numerical data with a graphical representation such as pie chart, line charts, bar graphs and many more. The static images would be reduced using these techniques and enables more access to the contents of the charts and the graphs. The Cascading [...]

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12 Jan 12

How to Customize the WordPress 3.3 Toolbar » SitePoint

Craig reveals how you can add and remove menu items from the new WordPress 3.3 toolbar.

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How to Utilize Akamai CDN with Your WordPress Site | Wptuts+

Sounds impressive? It is! I have found a solution to integrate the Akamai CDN without having me to pay a lot thus making CDN affordable to all.

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WPCandy’s Completely Unofficial Guide to Plugin UI

On the 29th episode of the WPCandy Podcast we talked about the sometimes poor state of plugin user interfaces. Many WordPress plugins are inconsistent with the native WordPress user interface in how they implement settings in the administration area for users. I'm writing this guide to outline a (completely unofficial) set of best practices for implementing settings pages that is consistent and current with the native WordPress administration user interface. I've based these guidelines on my observations and ...

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9 Jan 12

WordPress Feature Pointers

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Speed Up WordPress with W3 Total Cache (Set-up Guide)

This tutorial guides you through setting up each section of W3 Total Cache to get your WordPress site running like clockwork.

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7 Jan 12

A Quick Guide to the WordPress Transients API | matty.co.za

An overview of the Transients API in WordPress, how to use it and when to use it to speed up your WordPress web development projects.

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The WordPress Gallery Shortcode: A Comprehensive Overview | Wptuts+

In this tutorial we will be covering a specific WordPress shortcode, [gallery] and the different ways to use it to create custom image galleries.

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How To Create A WordPress Authors Template | Wptuts+

In this post we will be breaking the author template down and showing you how you can improve it.

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6 Jan 12

A Quick Introduction to Using Filters | Pippins Plugins

Filter hooks are one of the the more powerful WordPress features that help to provide a huge amount of flexibility when it comes to modifying WordPress, ...

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The Ultimate Guide to WordPress 3 Menus

Learn how to create menus with the new WordPress 3 Menu management system. We also discuss how to create a sitemap and using shortcodes for your menus.

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How To: Add Taxonomies to Your Custom Post Types in WordPress – Konstantin Kovshenin

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How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress – Smashing WordPress

Complete guide to mastering WordPress custom taxonomies for ultimate organizational control.

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