In recent years, WordPress designers have begun using multiple WordPress Loops, in combination with jQuery, to create tabbed “featured post” areas at the top of a website’s homepage in an effort to bring older and…
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Vladislav Davidzon (40 Posts)
Slick Social “Side-Out” Buttons in WordPress
One of the best ways to integrate the pull of social media with the more traditional online blogging format is to use social media “share” buttons to encourage users to communicate with their friends about…
Turning Any Theme into a WordPress Theme: It’s Not as Hard as Many People Think!
There’s a certain convenience to browsing WordPress-specific themes within the WordPress Extend them gallery and other third-party websites. That convenience comes from having all of the necessary WordPress Loops, variables, widget code, and PHP file…
Conditional Variables and Database Queries within WordPress
Over the years, WordPress blogs have grown from simple websites full of basic content to categorized, tagged, archived, and well-organized websites that contain nearly ten years of blog posts, dynamic pages, and other information. There’s…
How to Create a Custom Options Page in WordPress
One thing that seems to define technology is that users like both ease of use and the ability to customize the appearance of everything they use. Custom preferences pages within the WordPress are the best…
Parse RSS Feeds as Content in WordPress
It’s known that WordPress produces up to three RSS feeds for any blog. The software has been producing RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom syndication feeds for its blogs since virtually its first version. What…
Custom WordPress Submission Form Plugins
Long before the popularity of blogging, websites were using custom submission forms to encourage the kind of two-way communication between readers that allowed websites to grow during the late 1990s and early 2000s. These forms…
Minimizing Downtime: Tips for Transferring Websites to a New Host
It’s certainly not a fun process, but moving a website between servers sometimes becomes necessary. In fact, in recent years, it has become an even more necessary and popular task among many website owners and…
The WP_List_Table Function: What it Is and How to Use It Within a Typical WordPress Installation
For the past several major releases of WordPress, the columns of data within the WordPress Dashboard have been sortable either in ascending or descending order. This applies to virtually every column located within the Dashboard,…
Increasing Traffic and Revenue: How to Set Up an Affiliate System within WordPress
Affiliate systems are pretty complex, and this necessitates an appropriately broad and advanced plugin to fully administer the functionality that is considered standard with any such program. Sadly, this means that most of the major…
