WordPress Extensions for Sublime Text 2

When it comes to code text editors, in the past year or so Sublime Text 2 has well and truly established itself as the most popular and most loved editor available. It’s lightweight, super-easy-to-use, supports a multitude of programming languages, split edit screens, distraction-free mode… no matter what feature you need, Sublime Text 2 has you covered! One of the most useful features of Sublime Text 2 is its support…

Using WordPress as a REST API for a Mobile App

Often when making mobile apps you will need your app to get the latest content from your website, or if there is not a website already with content some way of putting new or timely content into the mobile app. Of course you do not want to have to update your app via iTunes, the Play Store or whatever, as you have to wait on people to upgrade before they…

Featured Posts Area in WordPress

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 more popular content to the forefront. Optionally made to automatically rotate through images and post titles, this collection of tabs is easily the best way to show off a site’s best work and turn more…

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 an article or page that they really enjoyed. These buttons are typically paired alongside every single post, allowing for piece-by-piece sharing of a site’s best work. While some websites have taken to turning these buttons…

30 Free Minimal Responsive WordPress Themes from 2012

In this round-up we have compiled some of the best free, responsive and minimal WordPress themes that have been released in this past year (2012). All work perfectly as is, but their real beauty is that they are a fanatstic foundation for further development. Balancing content with minimal layouts is not an easy path, but in the hands of a skillful designer or a competent writer, you truly can make…

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 inclusions printed into the file from the moment it is purchased or downloaded. But there is also a certain monotony when choosing WordPress-specific themes. The development community seems to have decided that every site powered…

WordPress 3.5 Released: What All Does it Offer?

This week, WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” was released. This new version comes with certain tweaks and improvements, primarily focusing on user interface and experience.

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 no doubt that the 60 million users who use WordPress software have taken the “content management system” label to heart. Because WordPress is now responsible for managing such a large amount of each website’s information,…

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 way to combine these interests. They’re as easy to use as any other control panel page within the Dashboard, but they’re advanced and flexible enough to allow the user to control every detail of their…

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 most people do not know, however, is that WordPress is also quite capable of pulling in RSS content from outside blogs and parsing it for display within one of its many template files. This functionality…

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 were probably the earliest “comments” on the internet, and often came in the form of so-called guestbooks that allowed readers and other visitors to drop a line of commentary, advice, feedback, or ask a question….

Building a Downloads Gallery WordPress Plugin

Plugins extend WordPress’ functionality and let you do almost anything with your existing site. In this tutorial, we will create a Downloads Gallery plugin for your WordPress website. We will be keeping it plain and simple and shall focus more on WordPress core instead of PHP logics.

Ghost – Bringing blogging back to WordPress

It is a well known fact that WordPress is the most popular CMS today, and it powers websites from different niche and genres. In fact, even though it once began as a blogging tool, WordPress today has risen to great heights, catering to the needs of news websites, online portfolios, eCommerce sites as well as corporate websites, among many others. However, in the light of such diverse uses, you have…

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