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.
This video will give you a quick demonstration of how to modify the Contextual Help tab on any WordPress admin page. This trick is particularly useful for users wishing to add extra information to an already-existing help tab, such as the one on the Themes or Plugins page.
The “Help” tab is a very underused, under rated, but fantastic tool for all plugin developers. If you’re not familiar with it, the “Help” tab is a little button in the top right corner of your WordPress dashboard that, when clicked, will bring in a nice slide-down panel with helpful information.
Especially when developing plugins or theme settings that make use of the WordPress media uploader to upload and insert images, being able to retrieve the ID of the image uploaded can be extremely useful. By grabbing the image (attachment) ID, you suddenly have a lot more control over what you can do with the image,…
Using custom database tables for your WordPress plugins is one of the way that you can greatly improve the kind of plugins you are able to create. DB tables give you a way to manage, organize, and save data for your plugin, and creating them for your plugin is very simple.
The Farbtastic Color Picker is a fantastic tool for developers and designers to utilize as a way to give their plugin (or theme) users an extra level of control. With Farbtastic, we can allow our users to change the colors of certain elements, such as the background color of our widget, by using an elegant…
This is a really handy trick that I just learned today. Whenever we can, it is always best to only load styles and scripts for our plugins when they are needed. This tutorial will show you how to load stylesheets and scripts only when a post contains the short code that the styles / scripts…
Sometimes, when using a custom post type in your plugins (or themes), it is desirable to add the already-registered taxonomies (Post Tags and Categories by default) to your custom object type. This quick code snippet will show you how to do that.
Custom Post Types are an increasingly popular tool for WordPress developers to use when constructing their plugins. There are many, many little tricks that help to make the finished product more polished, and one of those is changing the “Enter title here” text that is displayed in the Post Title field on the edit screen.…
This next part in our Working with Widgets Series is going to show you how to create a simple recent posts widget, much like my Better Recent Posts Widget plugin, though it will be even simpler. The goal of this tutorial will be to demonstrate a very useful technique that you can use in countless…
This useful little tip will show you how to retrieve an array of registered users from your WordPress database. We will use the get_users() function to query the database and return an array of users matching our parameters.
Widgets are utilized by tons of WordPress themes and plugins as a way to display customized content in various locations, and they’re relatively easy to create, as long as you have the appropriate resources. The code below will give you everything you need to make extensive and advanced widgets that can do anything you want.…
Loading scripts, CSS and jQuery, within a plugin for use on admin pages is one of the most common areas that developers make mistakes. If you plugin’s administrative pages require any scripts that are not already loaded in WordPress by default, you should always ensure that those scripts are only loaded on your plugin’s page,…
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.
