In one of my previous articles I talked about using the WordPress media uploader for your own plugins/themes. I had quite a few questions in the comments of that article about how to do certain things and to elaborate on […] Read More »
Category: WordPress
WordPress AJAX Example
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is one of the handiest features/group of interrelated technologies you can include on your website. With AJAX you enable your page to perform database retrievals and changes without reloading the page. WordPress comes with built […] Read More »
Conditionally Enqueue a Stylesheet into WordPress for a Certain Page
In a recent project I found myself creating an online registration form for a dance competition website. I wanted to use Foundation to style the form, but I only wanted the stylesheet to be enqueued on that one page. Basically […] Read More »
WordPress Transient Naming
Last week I went over how to use WordPress transients to cache data from an API call. I also talked about a problem where naming transients can be very difficult due to the size restriction of 40 characters. I also […] Read More »
WordPress Transients
WordPress isn’t known for being the fastest website solution on the market – but there are a lot of little tricks that you can do as a developer to make everything run faster. Last week I did an article on […] Read More »
WordPress .htaccess for Performance
WordPress isn’t known for being the fastest CMS out there – but there are a few easy tricks that you can do with your .htaccess file that can significantly increase performance. Recently I launched a WordPress site and web to […] Read More »
WordPress Social Share Links
Social media links are a hugely important part of any blog. In this really short snippet I’ll show you how to add Social Share links to your WordPress blog. You can put the following code inside the loop in whatever […] Read More »
Adding Font Awesome to Your WordPress Theme
Font Awesome is an awesome tool that allows you to place scalable vector icons all throughout your website. Lots of WordPress plugins and themes use them, so it’s great to know how you can add it to your own custom […] Read More »
Some Useful WordPress Functions
WordPress is full of really well known and useful PHP functions that help developers get their job done quicker – but there are a few lesser known ones that are also extremely helpful to have in your utility belt when […] Read More »
Object-Oriented WordPress
WordPress is normally written in procedural PHP which makes it extremely easy to read, write and follow along with the code to figure out whats going on. However procedural code also has it’s share of downsides such as namespace errors […] Read More »