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…
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…
Restrict Content Pro is my premium content plugin that makes it very easy to sell subscriptions to your WordPress website. It is the plugin that powers the subscription system to this site. This subscribers’s only tutorial is going to walk you through the process of adding new form fields to the registration form, and then…
Easy Content Types is a very powerful plugin that makes it really easy to setup custom post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes. One of great but lesser known features of the plugin is that it has an API built in to allow users to register their own custom meta field types that can be used…
Nonces are used to add an extra layer of security to WordPress. They are typically used when submitting form data to ensure that the form is being submitted from where it’s supposed to. Nonce fields help us protect our forms from malicious attacks and non-authorized submissions. This tutorial will introduce you to using nonces in…
A powerful subscription and premium content plugin
It is pretty common knowledge that custom meta fields can be added to posts, pages and custom post types, but did you know that you can add custom meta fields to post tags, categories, and custom taxonomies as well? It’s actually pretty simple, though relatively undocumented. So in this quick tutorial I’m going to walk…
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…
WordPress provides a set of great tools for processing ajax requests in plugins (and themes). I’m going to give you a quick example of how these tools can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks. For this example, We’ll just be using some simple alerts, but they will serve very well for demonstration purposes.
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.
A lot of people want the ability to display the WordPress login form within the content of one of the site’s pages. By default, WordPress does not provide any way to do this, so we are going to write a really quick, simple short code to display the login form.
In this tutorial I’m going to walk you through how to create a simple widget to list categories, and custom taxonomies, in your sidebar. The final result will be a complete plugin that you can drop into your wp-plugins folder and activate like any other plugin. The code for this widget will be based entirely…
WordPress comes with a Recent Posts widget that you can use to display a list of your latest posts in your widgetized sidebar, but it’s really not very good in the fact that it does give you any control over your posts at all. So I’ve written a new one.
This plugin will very easily let you restrict content on your WordPress site to registered users. It permits you to restrict entire posts / pages or individual sections of content within a post or page.
Easy custom post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes
