WordPress Coding Patterns: Setting Function Options with $args
Today’s topic is a pattern in WordPress programming called $args. It crops up all the time—so often that simply understanding it will make you a significantly more confident WordPress programmer. Let’s take a look!
How to Create a Multi-Language Website in WordPress
Most of us know that plugins are the answer to the question of how to create a multi-language website in WordPress. However, this is only a small part of the story. Multilingual website design across the web can be complex and incorporate a number of advanced technologies and strategies you have to understand in full. While search engine optimization (SEO) is important, you’ll also need to understand the culture of each locale in order to invoke trust and loyalty towards your site.
WordPress Custom Taxonomies: How and Why to Create Them
Organizing your content is one of the core features of a content-management system (CMS) like WordPress. As such, WordPress contains “taxonomies” to help you keep your content easy to find for both you and your visitors. Today we’re focused on why and how to make a WordPress custom taxonomy.
Become a Freelance WordPress Developer: How to Make a Career of It
This article explains what I’ve needed to know to work as a freelance WordPress developer.
Using Custom Taxonomies and Custom Fields in WordPress Development
This course covers the key points of two of WordPress’s most powerful APIs for defining custom post data: custom fields (also called post meta), and custom taxonomies. The course introduces each tool, and then—since some problems can be addressed by either tool—covers practical guidelines for when to use custom fields and when to use custom taxonomies.
The Essential WordPress Tutorial for PHP Developers
In this WordPress tutorial for PHP developers, we’ll look at how to start developing WordPress websites if you’re new to WordPress but already understand PHP.
Creating a WordPress Widget to Show a Random Post
Making a widget to show a random post uses two underlying concepts you need to get familiar with to be good at WordPress development: making use of WP_Query objects, and making widgets. If you’ve not checked them before, check out our Quick Guides which more thoroughly introduce both:
WordPress Shortcode Tutorial: How to Create Shortcodes, and Why They’re Super-Useful
This article is an in-depth WordPress shortcode tutorial. We cover what shortcodes are, when to use them, and how to register your own, with full-code custom shortcode examples.