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Wordpress Plugin Bootcamp Part 4 – A Real Life Excercise
In the first three parts of this series you learned theory – how the Wordpress plugin API works and how to use it. If you’re like me, however, you’ve been longing for a real life application – thinking, “That looks great, but how do I make the jump to using it in real life?”
Today, that’s exactly what you’re going to get. We’re going to delve in deep and tackle a real-life plugin (called WisdomDistilled) designed to allow easy placement and management of clever quotations. You’ll get to use the stuff you’ve learned – adding a widget and a settings page, saving options, and working with API hooks, plus learn some new techniques related to security, plugin structure, and working with the Wordpress database. Are you ready?
Wordpress Plugin Bootcamp Part 3 – Write Post Hacks, Shortcodes and TinyMCE
In parts 1 and 2 we explored API hooks, custom admin pages, custom widgets, saving plugin options and more. Today, I’m going to show you how to get your hands dirty with Wordpress’s write post page, which is where a lot of plugins output their main functionality.
We’ll be exploring how to add custom panels, create shortcodes, and interact with TinyMCE to add buttons and insert data. It’s time to dig in!
WordPress Plugin Bootcamp Part 2 – Pages,Widgets & Options
Yesterday we looked at the basics of plugin building – and found out how to define a plugin, use action/filter hooks, and add scripts. Today, you’ll learn how to add custom widgets, create a plugin options page, and learn how Wordpress’s option-saving mechanism works.
Come check it out, and learn some more about how to build your own Wordpress plugin!
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WordPress Plugin Bootcamp Part 1 – Getting Started
Wordpress plugins are big, and for good reason. Not only are they incredibly useful, they also are an excellent way to gain publicity and the real powerhouse of Wordpress’ flexibility and customizability. A good plugin can really make a difference, and there’s no reason why you can’t get in on it and learn to write your own.
This week, we’re going to be going all the way from the ground floor to the complex ins and outs of advanced Wordpress plugin development. Are you ready?
Get Ready – 5 Action Packed Weeks Ahead For Webitect!
It’s time to kick off a new year for Webitect – and it’s going to be good. I’d like to welcome everyone back with a bunch of special features and lots of knock-your-socks off content. Over the course of the next five weeks, we’ll be running several focused series digging in deep and giving you focused, high-quality tutorials, articles, and resources.
Sounds like fun? Come see the full schedule!
The Ultimate Best of ‘09 Collection
We’v just passed that time of year where we see a lot of blogs take a look back at the archives and produce some wonderful ”Best of 2009″ posts. These present a terrific learning opportunitiy, and an easy way to find your way back to the ‘cream-of-the-crop’ posts of ‘09. I like to bookmark these types of post and refer back to them a lot.
Today, I’m sharing the complete collection of 2009 round-ups – a super round-up that represents the very best from the blogging community. Come check it out! read more
Webitect is Relaunched!
Nick Parsons here (I’ve been blogging for Webitect for a while, you may have seen my name before), and I have some good news – Webitect is relaunching!
Webitect’s presence has been pretty bumpy these past couple months. The entire site even went down completely in November, and like anyone would, you were probably thinking, “What the heck is going on?” Today, I’d like to both apologize for the long recess and give you the full story of what’s been going on. read more
Super List of Web Designs Round Up for Inspiration
It’s more than clear that a lot of blogs like to display web design inspiration and have some type of list showing the 50 best blog designs, or the 30 best blue web designs. These lists are really helpful font of inspiration specially if it fits the project you working on at the moment. Instead of going into a css gallery to search for inspiration, why not open a list with a certain amount of web designs based on a theme selected by the blogger?
Here you will see a list of these listing post, this post will serve as your start up page for inspirations where you can go many ways and find tons of great web design within it’s listings.