Ready to make your mark on the web? Have great ideas, stories, or products to share with the world? Do it. You’ve presumably already made your first major decision, and a smart one at that: you’ve chosen WordPress. WordPress puts a world of choices at your fingertips and offers unrivaled customization as a platform for […]
How to Create a Simple WordPress Plugin
When giving support or offering various snippets we frequently advise people to create a WordPress plugin to handle all of their modifications. Here is how you create a very simple plugin to house all your little snippets and modifications. Basic Structure A WordPress plugin can consist of as little as a single PHP file however for […]
PSA: How to Add… Without a WordPress Plugin
Let me be extremely clear. If you ever read an article that includes the phrase “how to add anything without a plugin”, beware! They do not necessarily have your best interests in mind. What they generally have in mind is getting traffic by giving you what you want. Don’t get me wrong, not everything you want to […]
Stop adding code to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file
I’m about to share some information about creating custom post types, custom fields and custom taxonomies. Before I begin though I thought it would be good to lay down some foundations so you don’t find yourself having to do major work if something should change. If you want to save your self hours of work […]