Conditional tags are functions used in WordPress themes and plugins to display content, or perform actions, based upon whether a certain condition is true or not. A condition can be anything; it might be a condition for whether the user is currently viewing the homepage, or a condition for whether the user is currently logged-in. [...]
View Post conditional tagsEasy Digital Downloads is a plugin I have been building for selling digital downloads through WordPress. It is completely free and very flexible. Due to a large number of actions hooks and filters, there are many ways that you can customize the plugin to best suit your needs. This tutorial will walk you through the [...]
View Post add_action, add_filter, easy digital downloads
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_postWhile working on a user badge system for the CG Cookie network, I came across the need to add a custom link to the action links, such as Edit and Delete, present for each user on the WordPress Users page. After a quick google search, I was able to find a simple filter than can [...]
View Post add_filter, page_row_actions, post_row_actions, user_row_actions
At this point in the series, we have a payment form that allows for users to submit a one-time or recurring payment, but it’s not very flexible. The payment amount is currently hard coded into our plugin, which makes almost useless for people that want to have multiple payment forms for different amounts. In this [...]
View Post short code, Stripe
You have probably noticed the Screen Options tab in the top right corner of many WordPress admin pages. This tab brings down a configuration panel that you can generally use to control what elements are displayed on the current amin page. One of the really great things about the Screen Options tab is that which [...]
View Post add_filter, add_screen_option, Chris Marslender, get_current_screenIn part 3 of the WordPress Rewrite API series, we will be covering adding custom endpoints to specific places of your blog content. Endpoints are extremely powerful, and in this case, they will allow us to enable AJAX in the default theme WordPress (Twenty Eleven), so that when loading a post or page, it’s all [...]
View Post Abid Omar, Ajax, endpointWe covered a lot of information in the User Submitted Image Galleries tutorial series, everything from registering our post types and custom taxonomies to performing advanced queries; from uploading images on the front end to configuring the backend; from outputting our images in a gallery to displaying additional images by the same user. There were [...]
View Post attachments, gallery, images