Recently, one of our clients needed to let visitors create WordPress posts (Or custom post types of course) from the website itself.
In this post, I’m going to walk through some of the WordPress functions I used to achieve this. We’ll go over creating the post itself, adding categories/tags, and adding metadata.
This is one of the most common questions I get asked; how do you make a floating box with share links?
Today, we’re going to see just how simple it can be. We will:
You can see the demo site here (Try resizing your browser smaller).
This article will teach you how to add validation to your WordPress comment forms, using jQuery.
With validation, users can submit their comment and instantly see if they’ve hit an issue. There is no need to submit the page and get WordPress’ default “There is a problem…” page. Instead, errors are displayed inline instantly.
In our example, we will build a plugin which you can drop into any theme and will work instantly.
Just like last week, you can see the finished product in action on the demo site. And you can download the completed files here.
Today, we’re going to replace the standard “Older Posts” links on your blog. Our plugin will create a button to instantly load the next page of posts, without reloading the page (Similar to what Twitter used to do at the bottom of profiles)
Click here to load the demo site and see the final project in action.
You can also download the completed files as a plugin here (Just upload and activate it).
WordPress short codes are everywhere: in practically every theme and many, many plugins. They are extremely useful and provide huge amounts of extra functionality. With all of their greatness, however, there is one major problem with them: they are not very user friendly, particularly for users who are not familiar with programming, especially when a short code accepts more than one parameter. So, in order to help the non-programmer users, we need a new solution.
The ideal solution is one that provides an interface for the user to input all of their short code options without having to enter any “code”. This is a pretty common technique used by a lot of developers, but until now, there has never been a good tutorial on it, so we are going to fix that.
Security is one of those topics that comes up time and time again. You hear the advice, you know you should do it, but somehow, you never get around to it.
The tips in this post are designed to help make your WordPress installation safer and less likely to be hacked or spammed. If you’re short on time, just start at the top and work down. I’ve (roughly) ordered them so that the most important tweaks come first.
We also have a great giveaway at the end of this post, from Sucuri.net and Appsumo. Check it out for the chance to win free site security monitoring for a year!
In previous posts, we set up an events system for WordPress. Users could enter the date of an event, and we had great archives for displaying and categorizing them.
Today, we want to improve the admin end of things. Instead of using custom fields, we’ll make a box for the event’s date, and use jQuery to let users pick the date from a calendar.
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