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 from the absolute basics, and work our way up to more advanced topics and techniques. With hours of training, and nearly fifty videos, I’ll teach you, step by step, how to work with shortcodes, widgets, custom post types, WP Cron, and much more. If you’re unfamiliar with Tuts+ Premium, for a month, you gain access to...

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 hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts from the Tuts+ network. You’ll Learn About… What are custom post types, and why would you want to use them? How to take advantage of custom taxonomies to provide additional grouping and filtering functionality How to use custom meta boxes to save and display custom meta information for a specific post type. Implement nonces to provide additional security. New...

Advertise hereWordPress, 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 using jQuery and CSS3 to display the portfolio in a classy manner. In this tutorial, we are going to extensively use powerful features of WordPress, such as custom posts, custom taxonomies, and we’ll also write a function to fetch our own custom excerpts. Step 1 - Installing WordPress and Initializing the Theme. The...

Advertise hereObject-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 Dribble’s API as an example for this tutorial. Ready? What We’re Going to Learn: Benefits of using OOP for WordPress plugins. How to setup a shortcode. How to setup a template tag. How to enable shortcode in WordPress widgets. Real-world example by using Dribble’s API. Why Use OOP? Before moving forward with this tutorial, you should have at least an elementary understanding of writing a WordPress plugin. Jonathan has written an amazing...

Advertise here For the last decade, hosting a large scale web application has been a daunting task, reserved only for experts. Not anymore; when Amazon opened its server architecture, everything changed. Computer hardware moved to the cloud, and became available to any and all developers. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress in the cloud. Introduction Most blogs and small business web sites are hosted on shared hosting services, where you pay a fixed monthly fee in exchange for a predefined set of features and installed software. Most of the time, it’s a perfectly valid option, but running your...