There are several plugins and “app” themes available for job board / job posting websites, but what if you want to roll your own? A lot of people would go about thinking that building such as system would be extremely complex and expensive, and some of the time they would be right. However, if we…
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…
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…
In part 1 of this Integrating Stripe.com with WordPress tutorial series we built a simple payments form. Now we are going to extend our payment form a little bit to allow users to signup for a recurring payment. In the first part we only processed one time payments, but once this section is done, we…
In 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…
We 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…
In this final part of the User Submitted ImageGallery tutorial series, we will look at adding just a couple more features to our gallery system. We are going to add the ability to view all images by a particular user. This will be done by clicking on the name of the author when viewing a…
After watching a Twitter discussion this morning (shown in the image below), Helen Hou-Sandi, a WordPress developer and core-committer mentioned a function I had never heard of that can be used for finding the name of the current action or filter hook. It is called current_filter() and is extremely useful. Check out the snippets below…
Everyone is familiar with the “Like” button from Facebook, as well as many of its spin offs from other social networks. In this tutorial, we’re going to create our own version of the “like” button, but it is going to be a “love it” button and also specific to our website. Our plugin is going…
Part 7 of our User Submitted Image Gallery tutorial series is going to demonstrate how to customize the dashboard columns of our image post type, and also how to add a new widget to our dashboard that displays the latest pending image submissions. In this part we are really focusing on two customizations to the…
Some hooks get fired more than once, meaning that functions connected to those hooks are ran multiple times. This causes problems with some functions when they are designed to only be run once. If you have a function that is connected to an action hook, and you need to ensure it only ever runs once,…
Last time, we covered some of the basics and fundamentals of the Rewrite API in WordPress. In this tutorial, we’ll cover more about these APIs see how to use them to build something more practical. This entry is part 2 of 3 in the WordPress Rewrite API Series
When using Restrict Content Pro, the “Restrict this Content” meta box is automatically loaded on all registered post types, but sometimes you want to remove it from certain post types. The plugin includes a simple filter that you can use to specify which post types the meta box should not be added displayed on. This…
Stripe.com offers a very powerful system for accepting payments, including subscriptions. One of the particularly great things about Stripe is how easy its API is to use and integrate into your own projects. This tutorial series is going to walk you through many of the necessary steps for integrating Stripe, and many of its quality…
The Rewrite API for WordPress is one of the most overlooked features, yet it provides some unparalleled functionality that drastically improves user experience. This tutorial aims to help you understand how the WordPress URL Rewrite engine works and the different uses of this API. This entry is part 1 of 3 in the WordPress Rewrite…
