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Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 4

Tutorial • Intermediate

In the final part of this series, we'll employ everything we've learned thus far by applying namespaces to our code and writing our own autoloader.

Tom McFarlin • 17 Jan 2017
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Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 4

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we'll have a complete refactored solution that uses some intermediate object-oriented principles like inheritance. We'll also have a few...

Tom McFarlin • 29 Dec 2016
Plugin Development

Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 3

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we'll begin implementing our Settings Messenger by adding support for errors and success messages as well as covering some points on security.

Tom McFarlin • 22 Dec 2016
Plugin Development

Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2

Tutorial • Intermediate

We're going to be making a call to the custom hook that we'll define, and we'll wire that up on the server-side. We'll also start the groundwork for our...

Tom McFarlin • 15 Dec 2016
Plugin Development

Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 1

Tutorial • Intermediate

It's possible to implement a system that allows us to programmatically set our own custom messages, their type, and when and where to display them on the...

Tom McFarlin • 8 Dec 2016
Plugin Development

Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 2

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we're going to take a practical approach to our WordPress plugin by introducing object-oriented concepts learned from the previous tutorial...

Tom McFarlin • 25 Nov 2016
Plugin Development

Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 1

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this follow-up series and starting with this post, we're going to be revisiting the concept of autoloaders from the perspective of object-oriented...

Tom McFarlin • 18 Nov 2016
Plugin Development

Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 3

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we're going to take a break from writing code and look at what PHP namespaces and autoloaders are, how they work, and why they are...

Tom McFarlin • 11 Nov 2016
Plugin Development

Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 2

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this series, we're taking a look at exactly what PHP namespaces are, why they are beneficial, and how to use them. But first, we're laying the foundation...

Tom McFarlin • 2 Nov 2016
Plugin Development

Getting Started With the Twitter Info Widget

Tutorial • Beginner

There are a number of fantastic tools available for WordPress-based sites and blogs available in CodeCanyon. In this video, we take a look at one that allows...

Tom McFarlin • 27 Oct 2016
Plugin Development

Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 1

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this series, we're going to take a look at exactly what PHP namespaces are, why they are beneficial, and how to use them. Then we're going to take a look...

Tom McFarlin • 20 Oct 2016
Plugin Development

Building a Welcome Page for Your WordPress Product: Code Part 2

Tutorial • Beginner

In my previous post of this series, I started building a welcome page for a WordPress plugin. In this final article, I'll discuss the remaining plugin files...

Ahmad Awais • 27 Sep 2016