Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category
How to Create a WordPress Widget: 4 Killer Tutorials You Should Read
wpmu.org - If you’re ready to take the plunge and write your own widget, we’ve scoured the interwebs and rounded up some high quality tutorials to help you get the ball rolling. These resources should help you immensely on your journey to ... read more &rsaquo
How to Change the Titles of Your WordPress Category and Tag Meta Boxes
wpmu.org - But as many of us look to use WordPress as a general content management system (CMS) and not just a blogging tool, it may help to change the labels on certain things, especially if you are building for clients or ... read more &rsaquo
Extend the TwentyEleven Navigation with your Social Icons
wpengineer.com - In this little tutorial we show how to add in the navigation of the TwentyEleven Theme our RSS Feed, a link with icons to our Twitter page and to our Facebook profile. Without writing a single line of PHP code. ... read more &rsaquo
Add Icon to Site Link in the WordPress Admin Bar
wpengineer.com - Each button in the Admin bar has a self-defining and space-saving icon. But the link to the blog frontend (which is represented as a blog title), has no icon. If you want, you can change it quickly - here is ... read more &rsaquo
WP_List_Table – A Step By Step Guide
wpengineer.com - Throughout WordPress the class WP_List_Table is used to display data, e.g. users, plugins, comments, or posts. The class contains almost all necessary methods for displaying, sorting, paginating, and searching data and and what is more obvious than to use it ... read more &rsaquo
How To Learn WordPress In One Week (Without Spending a Cent)
wpmu.org - This is a step-by-step guide on how to learn WordPress, aimed at beginner users who are trying to become competent with the platform in their spare time. Even if you’re juggling work, family, friends, sport and fifty other things at once, ... read more &rsaquo
How to Migrate from Posterous to WordPress
wpmu.org - Big news on the internet this week is that Twitter has acquired Posterous. It’s still unclear what will happen with Posterous Spaces but this acquisition will potentially affect thousands of regular bloggers. If you have a Posterous blog and you’re feeling ... read more &rsaquo
Quick Tip: How to Implement Multiple Pages for your WordPress Posts and Pages
wp.tutsplus.com - There’s nothing worse than scrolling through a long post or page when it’s obvious that it should have been broken into a series of more easily-digested chunks. It’s very easy to accomplish in WordPress and more people should do it. ... read more &rsaquo
How to Build an E-Commerce Website Using WordPress: Part 2
wp.tutsplus.com - This is the second and final part of the WordPress E-Commerce tutorial. Here we will go through the final steps of completing our WordPress e-commerce web site. You will be shown with the process of adding products to your site, ... read more &rsaquo
How To Localize WordPress Themes and Plugins
wp.tutsplus.com - In 5 Cardinal Sins of WordPress Theme Development, we briefly spoke about the significance of localizing themes and plugins but we didn’t actually discuss how to do it. If you’re in the commercial theme or plugin space, then it’s almost ... read more &rsaquo
How to Generate Website Screenshots For Your WordPress Site
wp.tutsplus.com - In this tutorial you’ll learn an open secret: how to generate screenshots of websites to use in your WordPress posts using a service provided by WordPress.com. We’ll even turn this into an easy-to-use shortcode to display the screenshots… let’s get ... read more &rsaquo
How to Make a Splash Page with WordPress
wp.tutsplus.com - In celebration of Cyber Monday, today we’re going to show you a technique for creating a custom “Splash Page” for your WordPress theme. You’re probably seeing a lot of these around the net today, so you know that they’re great ... read more &rsaquo
Create a TwitterRSS Stats Widget for WordPress
wp.tutsplus.com - In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of setting up a widget, its settings form, and displaying it on your site. At the end of the tutorial, you can download an example plugin to build from. Of course, ... read more &rsaquo
How to Disable the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.3
wp.tutsplus.com - WordPress (Sonny) version 3.3 was just released last night. Half asleep, I downloaded the new version, set up my database, and installed it. Fancy new welcome, I like it. Then, I went and configured my settings just the way I ... read more &rsaquo
How to Build an E-Commerce Website Using WordPress: Part 1
wp.tutsplus.com - Today we will be creating a simple but powerful e-commerce site using one of the most popular WordPress plugins called WP e-Commerce. Using this plugin we will be creating a website which sells holiday gifts! read more &rsaquo
