Have you ever pushed out an update that included modifications to scripts or styles and then later had to tell someone to clear their cache or do a hard refresh in order to see the updates? There is actually a very simple way to avoid this scenario and force the browser to display the updated…
If you have ever written a plugin that uses any form of Javascript, you will probably have come across the problem of passing configuration options from PHP to Javascript. Take an image slider plugin, such as Soliloquy for example: most likely there is a settings page of some kind that lets the user set the…
In the previous part of Creating a User Follow System, we looked at the basic shell functions that we need to write for our plugin to function. Now we are going to get into actually writing those functions. We will go one by one and write each one from scratch. Also note that we will…
Part 1 of the User Follow System series looked at laying out the main structure of the plugin. For part 2, we’re going to continue that and lay out the main skeleton functions that we need for our plugin. These will include the functions for following a user, unfollowing a user, checking if a user…
Writing clean code is something you should always strive for in your WordPress projects, and you should always do what you can to adhere to the WordPress Coding Standards. I tested out a really awesome tool today that you should seriously consider adding to your workflow if you are a Sublime Text 2 user.
In this advanced tutorial we’re going to walk through the process of creating a simple short code to display Google Maps. The concept is simple, but we’ll be using advanced techniques and tools for displaying our maps. All maps will be cached using transients and all requests to Google’s API services will be done with…
If you are selling WordPress themes or plugins, one of the number one things you should absolutely consider implementing into your products is automatic upgrades. If avoidable, there is no reason a user should be forced to manually log into your site and download a new version, then log into their own site and upload…
The Stripe customer system let’s us keep track of people that have signed up for our subscriptions or purchased our products. Anytime a user signs up for a subscription, a customer is created for them in Stripe. Once a customer has been created, we can see all payments that customer has made, add or subtract…
In part one of the Creating a User Follow System tutorial series, we are going to take a quick look at how our final product may be implemented into a real live site, and the basic functionality it will contain. This entry is part 1 of 7 in the Creating a User Follow System Plugin…
WordPress has a class called WP_Error that provides a really simple way for developers to track errors while processing data. The class mystified me for a long time, but once I figured it out, it is extremely simple to use, and saves a ton of time when attempting to record errors while processing data of…
