46 Best WordPress Tips and Tutorials of October 2011
15th Nov 2011 | Posted by Eko S. | 6 CommentsWhy wordpress is one of the most popular CMS and blogging platform around? I think it because wordpress is free, customizable and have a great support by community or other developers. And as wordpress users, we should keep updated with the new development, tips and tricks shared by other developers. So every month we tried to collect the best of wordpress articles around the world.
In this article we are going to share very useful wordpress tutorials for October 2011. We hope this post will help you in solving problems on your wordpress site and as a source of inspiration to develop your wordpress site.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress Essentials: The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks
by Daniel Pataki
In this article, I would like to dispel some of the confusion around hooks, because not only are they the way to code in WordPress, but they also teach us a great design pattern for development in general.
How To Create Custom Post Meta Boxes In WordPress
by Justin Tadlock
Creating custom meta boxes is extremely simple, at least it is once you’ve created your first one using the tools baked into WordPress’ core code. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know about meta boxes:
The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress
by Peter Wilson
In this article you’ll find a series of logical steps when managing JavaScipt files in WordPress.
Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress’ Content Editor
by David Hansen
This article shows you an easy-to-implement trick that enables even the least tech-savvy of clients to manage multi-column content layouts within the comfort of the WYSIWIG editor. And for you advanced users, it’s still a great way to standardize and streamline your content entry.
How To Create Tabs On WordPress Settings Pages
by Elio Rivero
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you’ll get to download a WordPress theme that implements the code.
Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website
by Daniel Pataki
In order to create our own email system, we will be doing four things. First, we will create a nice email template to use. We will then modify the mailer function so that it uses our new custom template. We will then modify the actual text of some of the built-in emails. Then we will proceed to hook our own emails into different events in order to send some custom emails. Let’s get started!
A comparison of leading WordPress theme frameworks
by Cameron Chapman
Check out the free and premium frameworks and starter themes below. Try a few of them out and then decide which one(s) work best for your projects.
How To Backup Your WordPress Website
by Kevin Muldoon
In this article we will be showing you how you can backup and restore your WordPress database using the built-in import and export tool, using PHPMyAdmin, using CPanel and using a host of WordPress plugins and services.
Creating Custom Page Templates
by Dan Davies
Pages are hugely useful when using WordPress as a CMS, and when you’re making a website, it’s not uncommon for two pages to have entirely different layouts. Sometimes an if statement will do the trick; if not, you’ll need a custom page template.
Create a Responsive Slider Plugin With FlexSlider for WordPress
by Joseph Casabona
Sliders seem to be all the rage these days, and for good reason! You can add photos, content, videos, and more to an eye-catching, animated area of your website.
WordPress Theme Development Training Wheels: Day One
by Nur Ahmad Furlong
Ready to learn how to make your first WordPress theme? This tutorial series will take a step by step approach, making use of a “learning theme” affectionately known as WordPress Training Wheels, to help teach the subject.
Changing the Fonts of Your WordPress Site – Part 1: Using a Plugin
by Fouad Matin
This is part one of a two part tutorial showing you how to change the fonts of your WordPress site. We will be using a plugin to add the functionality to change the fonts of specific html tags, or even use custom CSS.
Add the WordPress RSS Feed Anywhere In Your Theme
by Craig Morgan
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and put it anywhere in your theme, including a page or post template.
Displaying WordPress Site Data Via jQuery Charts
by Elvin Hajiyev
In this tutorial we will use the jQuery Charts Plotting plugin, JQplot, to create a new WordPress plugin which can display some of your blog’s traffic, popular categories, and more with some beautiful visual charts.
How To Create A Simple 404 Error Page For WordPress Themes
by Dan Davies
Creating a custom 404 page is easy using the 404.php template in your WordPress theme, and it can go a long way to ensuring a visitor remains on your website, even after they encounter a 404 error.
Allow Users To Submit To Your WordPress Site: A Quotes Plugin
by Ross Elliot
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a plugin that allows users to submit form data. You’ll also learn about security by using nonces.
Display & Style Related Posts For Your WordPress Site
by Carina Javier
Here I will show you how to program a custom WordPress loop that will display your related posts with thumbnails.
How to track 404 pages and redirect them in WordPress
by WPBeginner
But what if people try to access a page on your site through your old URL? Today we are going to show you how to redirect broken URLs to your new URL.
How to Fix and Cleanup the TimThumb Hack in WordPress
by WPBeginner
So if you remember correctly, there was a security issue with the TimThumb script in August which was fixed. It’s a simply write a step by step article, so our users can just follow it. All of the three users that we fix this issue for did not even know what TimThumb was or whether they were using it or not.
Add a Custom Class in WordPress Menu Item using Conditional Statements
by WPBeginner
We wanted to add a custom class to a specific menu item only on single post pages. After looking around for a while, we could not find any solution
Checklist: 15 Things You MUST DO Before Changing WordPress Themes
by WPBeginner
In this article, we will provide you with a checklist of things that you MUST do before changing WordPress themes. These steps are critical to make sure the process goes smoothly otherwise you can end up losing elements that you did not mean to lose.
How to Add Custom Items to Specific WordPress Menus
by WPBeginner
this tutorial is intended for WordPress theme developers, so it is expected that you know basic html/css and a fair understanding of how WordPress themes work.
How to Remove the Password Reset / Change option from WordPress
by WPBeginner
In this article, we will share our story on why we need this functionality, and we will also show you how to remove the ability for non-admin users to change/reset their passwords in WordPress.
How To Restore Your WordPress Website Backup On Your Local Server Using WAMP
by Brad Dalton
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to restore backup of your WordPress files and databases locally on your own PC to WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Create a WordPress Subscription Only E-Mail Newsletter Service Using RSS FeedBurner
by Brad Dalton
In this tutorial, well move through 3 simple steps for:
- Creating a special newsletter category in WordPress
- Installing a plugin to exclude WordPress categories
- Creating a new RSS feed for your subscription only readers
How To Move WordPress From A Local WAMP Server To A Live Web Hosting Server
by Brad Dalton
In this tutorial we’ll:
1. Change Your Local Site & Blog URL’s
2. Export database backup from local server
3. Transfer files using FTP to your web hosts server
4. Create a New Database
5. Import your local servers database export file to your live servers database
6. Edit wp-config.php file
7. Point your name servers to your web host
4 Ways To Change Your WordPress Site Address (URL’s)
by Brad Dalton
At some stage you may need to update address on your website, change your domain name, site URL or change your WordPress address for one reason or another.
There’s different methods you can use to do this without breaking your links depending on whether you are trying to fix a problem or simply want to change your sites address.
How To Import Blogger To WordPress
by Brad Dalton
Anyway, here’s an extensive tutorial on how to solve all these problems so your new WordPress self hosted blog looks and operates the same as when it was hosted on Blogger.com
How To Install WordPress in a Subdirectory
by Brad Dalton
This tutorial will deal with installing WordPress in a sub directory only.
How To Install WordPress Manually Using File Manager
by Brad Dalton
This tutorials will show you how to download and install WordPress manually.
Daily Tip: How to Find the Hostname of Your Database Server When Installing WordPress
by Sarah Goding
If you’re setting up a brand new installation of WordPress, you will need to know the value to put in your wp-config.php file for Database Host.
Be aware that this…
A Simple WordPress Trick that Makes You Look Smarter
by Joe
And so below we will go over three different ways of implementation, each slightly more difficult than the one before it (but also with more benefits).
How to Post From Google+ to Your WordPress Blog
by Sarah Goding
Follow these simple steps to give yourself the ability to post from your Google+ account.
From WordPress Beginner To Blogging Rockstar: 28 Awesome Tips
by Tom Ewer
There are a few things that you want to get right with WordPress. You want an awesome theme. All the right plugins. All the right knowledge. And much more. You want to know those little things that we all wish we’d known when we first started out.
WordPress SEO Tip: Improve Link Popularity With a 301 Redirect
by Tim Gregg
301 is a HTTP status code, and indicates that the page in question has moved permanently to a new location. So how do you set up a 301 redirect on your WordPress site?
How to Use Your Gravatar As the Favicon For Your WordPress Site
by Sarah Goding
Using your Gravatar as the favicon of your site is easier than you might think. You can do this in two quick steps.
15 Point Checklist: WordPress Start-Up Guide After Installation
by Joe
Whichever type you are, after you’ve installed WordPress on your domain, there are still a number of things you should do before you ever write a word. Below is a checklist of the fifteen most important steps you should go through before hitting “Publish.”
Reset Your Lost WordPress Password without Breaking a Sweat
by Joe
You forgot the Admin password to your WordPress site, and when you try to get it sent to you, it doesn’t work!
What are you going to do? You’re the ADMINISTRATOR!
Not to worry. There is a relatively simple process you can go through…
Migrating WordPress to a New Server
by Siobhan McKeown
A step by step that will guide you when you want to migrating your wordpress site to a new server.
How to Simplify WordPress Profiles By Removing Personal Options
by Sarah Goding
This is a handy quick hack that will make the profile page within WordPress only display the fields relevant to a user’s profile.
How to style WordPress Menus & Dropdowns
by Pippin
This tutorial isn’t going to cover how to create a beautiful menu, but rather how to create the base CSS code that you will need in order to make one that is beautiful, and also functional.
Shortcode generator for WordPress
by Nikolay Yordanov
That’s why I’ll keep the introductory part short and instead I’ll concentrate on something interesting – a hard to produce by hand shortcode and a generator UI for easing the pain.
The Importance Of Plugin Quality
by Kevin Muldoon
Why WordPress become popular, one of the main reasons is there are Plugins. Which is why it is can be confusing to WordPress beginners when they read that they should not install too many plugins. Surely plugins are what WordPress is all about?
How Important Is A Unique WordPress Theme?
by Kevin Muldoon
How important do you think it is to have a unique WordPress theme? Is your website design unique?
Don’t Use Free WordPress Themes That Are Encrypted
by Kevin Muldoon
Developers can justify releasing WordPress themes for free because of the traffic they get via the footer link. Under the general public license, WordPress users are allowed to remove these links. Unfortunately, many developers don’t like this so what they do is encrypt their themes so that the footer code cannot be removed.
Force Reload of Scripts and Stylesheets in your Plugin or Theme
by Latz
WordPress provides a simple method to ensure that all stylesheets and scripts are reloaded from the source when they have changed by providing a version parameter:
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I am just starting to read these tips, but will read them all – great information! I also added a link to this page on my blog.
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How do I make a list of excerpts for my static page. I searched for a few hours yesterday. Got so many long php solutions. Is there a good plugin I can use? Thanks!
These fourty six are really helpful to become better wordpress developer.