This video tutorial walks you through the process of using ajax in the WordPress admin within your own plugins. The end result of this tutorial is not a complete plugin, but it does show the entire process, step by step, of how ajax is utilized in the WordPress dashboard.
The drag and drop method of ordering items in an option table is very popular, and also extremely useful. Rather than forcing users to manually enter “order” numbers to sort items the way they want, they can simply click and drag the items into the desired order. I use drag-and-drop ordering quite a bit in…
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…
