The new admin bar, now named the tool bar, in WordPress 3.3 is great. It’s really well organized and cleans the dashboard up a lot. It’s also great for developers because adding new links to settings pages, documentation, or other useful links, is quite simple. In this quick tip, I’m going to show you how…
A few weeks ago I wrote a tutorial about creating front end registration and login forms. Now it’s time to create a very similar form, but for changing a logged-in user’s password. The process is really pretty simple, and quite similar.
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…
Easy Content Types make it extremely easy to add new custom post types to your WordPress site. What is not always so easy is getting those post types to show up in your template files. This is mostly because a lot of themes do not support them very well. So I’m going to show you…
Easy Content Types makes it really easy to create custom meta boxes with as many fields as you want. Did you know you can use these fields to control the layout of your posts or pages in WordPress? With just a couple of fields, and some tweaks to your theme’s template files, you can provide…
Part seven of Writing Your First WordPress Plugin concludes the series by demonstrating how to extend the plugin options that I showed you in part 6, and how to use them to control various aspects of your plugin’s output, such as turning it on or off and changing theoutput’s theme. There is not a lot…
In part 6 of Writing Your First WordPress Plugin, I’m going to continue where we left off in part 5 and demonstrate how to create your plugin settings form. We will create a complete settings page that allows you to save your plugin options to the database easily from the Settings page that we added…
In part 5 of Writing Your First WordPress Plugin, I’m going to take you through the process of adding an admin options page to your first WordPress plugin. This options page will allow your user to configure the settings for the plugin very easily. In this case, we’re going to use it to allow the…
WordPress 3.3 has a really nice new Help menu that can be used by plugin and theme developers to show a lot of helpful information to the users. It’s very similar to the Contextual Help Tab, but allows much more information to displayed in a more organized fashion. Instead of all content being displayed in…
Being able to quickly find the unique ID number of any user in your WordPress database can be very useful, especially if you run a website with lots of users. One of the ways that we can easily find a user’s ID is by customizing the table displayed on the wp-admin/users.php page. We can add…
Ever noticed the messages WordPress displays when you activate a plugin, or save settings? Or the messages that some plugins show in the dashboard, perhaps notifying you of a missing requirement? These are called Admin Notices and I’m going to show you how to add your own in your plugin or theme. They’re really quite…
Once you have created a custom post type with Easy Content Types, you will want to begin displaying entries from that post type. There are a variety of ways to do it, but one of the easiest by far is using the [ecpt_query] short code included with the plugin. This short code will let you…
Being able to restrict certain content to logged in members only is a very useful function, especially for membership based websites, whether free or premium. This quick tutorial shows you the basics of how to write a short code function that will allow you to limit blocks of content to logged in users only.
Plugin Action links are the links, such as Deactivate, that are displayed on the plugin entry in the WordPress plugins page. These links are extremely useful for helping your users find their way around the admin section of your plugin, as well as for providing helpful links such as Contact or Support.
This tutorial will demonstrate the methods used to write a simple Posts By Author Widget plugin. The idea of this plugin is to provide a widget that can be used to displays posts from a specific author. The plugin this tutorial is about is a much simplified version of the [highlight_green]Posts By Author Widget Pro…
