So you’ve wrapped your mind around the process of creating WordPress themes, and now you want to take things to the next level? In that case, it’s time to begin learning how to create plugins for WordPress. In this Tuts+ Premium course, we start fr...
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WordPress Plugin Development Essentials: New Premium Course
So you’ve wrapped your mind around the process of creating WordPress themes, and now you want to take things to the next level? In that case, it’s time to begin learning how to create plugins for WordPress. In this Tuts+ Premium course, we start fr...
The Magic of WordPress Custom Post Types: New on Premium
In this in depth Premium video tutorial, I’ll teach you how to use custom post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes to extend your WordPress application into CMS-like territory. Become a Premium member to read this tutorial/screencast, as well as h...
Create a Multi-Layout Portfolio with WordPress
WordPress, as a content management system, is often used for creating portfolio websites. With the evolution of user interface design and functionalities, a new trend has emerged: displaying portfolio items in different layouts. This tutorial details the process of creating a dedicated portfolio section in WordPress’ backend, and...
Create WordPress Plugins with OOP Techniques
Object-oriented code, among other things, can help organize and add reusability to your code. In this tutorial, I will teach you the basics of writing a WordPress plugin using object oriented techniques. We’ll be using Dribbble’s API as an example for this tutorial. Ready? What We’re Going to...
Deploy your WordPress Blog to the Cloud
Scaling WordPress for High-Traffic
Just because you didn’t get to go to that awesome conference doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! Each week, we feature one recommended web development lecture on Nettuts+. This talk, presented by Envato’s very own developer extraordinaire, Ryan Allen, will detail some of the potential...
Innovative Uses of WordPress Post Types and Taxonomies
With the release of WordPress 3.0, two great ways to better organize and display content were introduced: post types and taxonomies. These two advances improve WordPress’ role as an all-around content management system, and they continue to prove that WP is not just a blog platform. When 3.1...
Quick Tip: How to Target WordPress Sticky Posts
As of WordPress 2.7, we can now assign “sticky posts.” This feature affords us the ability to “pin” postings to the top of our blog. But, how can we specifically target these sorts of postings from within our stylesheet? Notice the pretty ribbon that’s attached to this particular...
WordPress Shortcodes: The Right Way
One of the primary reasons why WordPress is the most popular CMS platform available is the sheer level of customizability that it brings to the table. Today, we’ll review the process of integrating one of those popular features, shortcodes, in the most user friendly way possible, into our...