Knowing what your users are searching for can be extremely useful and important. In this members-only tutorial we’re going to look at how to create a simple search logging plugin that will record every search query performed on your site. We will be using the WP_Logging class that I released a week or two ago [...]
View Post search, template_redirect, WP_LoggingPart 1 of the User Follow System series looked at laying out the main structure of the plugin. For part 2, we’re going to continue that and lay out the main skeleton functions that we need for our plugin. These will include the functions for following a user, unfollowing a user, checking if a user [...]
View Post add_user_meta, add_user_option, get_user_meta, get_user_option, update_user_meta, update_user_option
In this advanced tutorial we’re going to walk through the process of creating a simple short code to display Google Maps. The concept is simple, but we’ll be using advanced techniques and tools for displaying our maps. All maps will be cached using transients and all requests to Google’s API services will be done with [...]
View Post get_transient, Google Maps, set_transient, wp_remote_get, wp_remote_retrieve_bodyIn part one of the Creating a User Follow System tutorial series, we are going to take a quick look at how our final product may be implemented into a real live site, and the basic functionality it will contain. This entry is part 1 of 5 in the Creating a User Follow System Plugin [...]
View Post Tom McFarlin, usersI’ve spent a lot of time lately dealing with a little known, under-documented but extremely useful class in WordPress called WP_Filesystem. WP_Filesystem is used throughout WordPress to handle core/plugin/themes updates and various tasks that require writing files to your webserver. The WP_Filesystem class is a base class that has many extensions depending on what ‘method’ [...]
View Post Thomas Griffin, WP_FilesystemThere are a lot of ways to query posts in WordPress and a lot of parameters you can use for pulling in just the data you want. For example, you can easily pull in just posts that are in category X, Y, or Z, and you can also just as easily pull in only posts [...]
View Post add_action, pre_get_postsA live search is a search form that displays the results for your search query as you type. When done right, they can be exceptionally nice to use, and going through the process of building one covers a lot of really important techniques that can be applied to many other areas as well. This in-depth [...]
View Post add_action, Ajax, jquery, search, wp_ajax
Campaign Monitor is an email newsletter service built primarily for designers. It is definitely one of the most used email list services, along with Mail Chimp and Aweber. This tutorial is going to cover the basics of working with Campaign Monitor’s API by creating a basic newsletter signup form. You must be logged in and [...]
View Post campaign monitor, emails, newsletters
In the Jobs Posting with Easy Content Types and Gravity Forms tutorial, we used Gravity Forms to create a submission form for users to post their job openings. In this tutorial, we are going to create our own custom submission form. While we will focus the form around job submission, the techniques used here apply [...]
View Post add_action, add_shortcode, update_post_meta, wp_insert_post
