This plugin will enable a simple short code that you can use for embedding Google Maps in any WordPress post or page. The short code uses the WordPress HTTPS API and the Transients API for delivering cached maps with little to no impact on your site’s performance.
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…
In part three of this User Submitted Image Gallery plugin tutorial series, we created the function that processes image uploads. Now it is time to build our gallery’s short code, which will be used to display the complete gallery of user submitted images. This short code is rather complex and we won’t fully finish it…
The built-in WordPress gallery systems leaves much to be desired. It works well if a theme supports it, but it can be difficult to customize, especially if you have any special markup you’d like with the gallery. While working on a client’s theme, I wrote up a quick short code function that can be used…
Front end registration and login forms (meaning placed within your site’s pages, and not the default wp-login.php) are one of the elements that really take a site out of the “standard WordPress” zone. With forms that allow your users to signup and login without ever leaving your main site, you provide a much more consistent…
Being able to display a list of posts within a page (or other post) is very useful. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to write a simple post query short code that will allow you to display a list of posts from any category, tag, or custom taxonomy.
A very popular feature of many themes is an Ajaxified contact form, often inserted through a shortcode. So I’m going to show you how to create one from scratch as a plugin that can be dropped into any WordPress theme.
