It’s been a long time since I last wrote a tutorial, all I can do is apologise for the long gap and tell you that it was mostly due to lack of time and, to be frank, lack of the motivation to write. Recently though I have found myself with a renewed vigour and I will be posting more tutorials […]
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Today I have a quick tip I want to share with everyone about rewrite rules in WordPress. WordPress is awesome. It has a nice, fairly easy to use rewrite system. You can use it to add your own rewrite rules and do all sorts of awesome things using a plugin. A lot of new developers also forget they are integral […]
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One of the biggest tips I think can be given today when developing a theme is to not include the code for a Custom Post Type inside the functions file of the theme. If you are developing for a client then by all means use this tip. If you are developing for selling a theme I would use a normal […]
Read moreThis third part of explaining how to use PHP & MySQLi was inspired by ‘abr4xas’ who commented on part 2 of this tutorial. He/she asked how they would go about safely inserting data from the $_POST superglobal into one of their MySQLi queries. So here is how to do exactly that. Prepared Statements One of the best ways to use […]
Read moreAt first glance this looks pointless, just use the [gallery] shortcode, but there are times when you want more customization than the gallery shortcode allows for. In this tutorial we will look at how to get all the images attached to a post without a plugin.
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Today we are going to look at how to replicate the beautiful image overlays, also called caption animations, created by the jQuery plugin Mosaic with just CSS transitions. No JavaScript at all. Using CSS Transitions to Create Image Overlays: Demo Arguably the most important part of a tutorial is the demo. So without any further dilly-dallying here is the demo. […]
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As promised here is the second part of building our Shopping List Application with the excellent AngularJS the JavaScript MVW framework. In this final part we are going to look at how to extend our application so that it can receive data (via JSON) from a REST based application to populate our shopping list with items. This is as opposed […]
Read more I’ve been getting a lot, and I mean a huge amount, of requests for a tutorial on some form of JavaScript framework. I tried Backbone, but honestly? I just couldn’t get to like it. It is brilliant, but not for me. So someone suggested AngularJS instead & it was love at first sight. Super simple and it even feels like […]
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You can find quite a few jQuery tabs scripts around the web, including jQuery’s own tabs. However I thought I’d do a little tutorial showing how to build your own, and how to include support for the HTML 5 history system (AKA: PushState). Important Note This tutorial will probably get a little complicated. It involves using the HTML 5 history […]
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I been asked by a lot of visitors if I could do a guide to Actions and Filters for those just starting out with WordPress development. So, I thought I’d give it a try. I’ve Heard Talk of Hooks. What Are Hooks? Well WordPress have a small entry about this in their Codex. Hooks, or sometimes Hooks & Filters, are […]
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