Nurturing a Million Comments, One at a Time
Through our connection with hosting company Voxel dot Net we sometimes get a call to help out with things that don't directly relate to hosting. A few months back, such a call came in the form of MjsBigBlog.com. MJ runs ...
Adding a Logout Link to Your WordPress Theme, Plugin or Widget
We have been chatting about various changes that make your WordPress site more useful for your viewers. Today, we will look at adding a custom logout link into your theme or plugin, so users can close their sessions. This is not ...
Creating readme.txt for Our WordPress Plugin
We have been talking in previous posts, about the relevance of the readme.txt file, when you want to put put your plugin into the WordPress plugin directory. This is the text that explains about your plug in, answers common questions, ...
Testing an XmlRpc server
We are developing a big plugin with a big xmlrpc interface, and sometimes it's hard to test your functions, and see what are the results. Googling a bit I found a very cool tool. It's open source so you can download ...
Fixing a Visual Editor Problem by Taking the Slow Lane
Have you ever gotten really stuck working with an application that is supposed to be easy, to the point that you want to rip your hair out or throw your Macbook Pro out of the window? Well, save for the ...
Does Free Still Count? Only if You’re Making Money with It!
The story goes like this: web designer meets plugin, crafted with loving care by a freelance web developer. Designer downloads said plugin. It works great! Solves the problem! Does really useful and awesome things. So the designer uses it on ...
Ajax and WordPress
When working on advanced website projects for Dinkum clients, there are a few questions I'm almost guaranteed to get asked at some point in the development cycle: How can we improve the user experience? Make it slick, smooth, intuitive, engaging. ...
WordPress Tips and Tricks for Users: The Best 5 Admin Options You Didn’t Know About
WordPress is the single most commonly used CMS and blogging platform in the world, running over 18 million sites as of this writing (current stats here). Possibly more striking is that people actually use their WordPress sites! ...
Adding Menu Options in WordPress
In my past few entries I've been exploring some of the basics that make Wordpress "tick" and how we use these tools to increase functionality for your site within the WP ecosystem. As you've seen, these posts aren't targeted ...
Hooks, Action and Filters in WordPress
Before continuing adding features to our WordPress plugin, we need to know what hooks, actions and filters are. What does WordPress say? "Hooks are provided by WordPress to allow your plugin to 'hook into' the rest of WordPress; that is, to call ...