A Primer On Ajax in the WordPress Dashboard
2 PostsDepending on your background, there are a number of different ways to implement Ajax. In this series, we're going to do a very brief overview of what Ajax is, how it works, and then how to properly use it within the WordPress administration dashboard.View Learning Guide...
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API
8 PostsIn this four part series, we're going to take a look at what it means to make a remoteView Learning Guide...GETrequest, and in the second part, we're going to take a look at a practical approach to doing so.
Digging Into the Theme Customizer
4 PostsIn version 3.4, beside improving current features, WordPress released a very cool new feature. It's a really useful tool that makes it easier for a user to configure and customize their website. That is the Theme Customizer. So what is the Theme Customizer, what can it do, and how to customize it? In this series, I'm going to walk you through understanding its components and tasks deeply. Once we're done, you can totally customize it by yourself.View Learning Guide...
Developing Plugins With WordPress Boilerplates
2 PostsOver the past five to ten years, building sites and applications for the web has become much more complex than much of the stuff that people were building in the 90's. Long gone are manually creating sites using uppercase HTML, table-based layouts, and ugly JavaScript to make some type of cute animation happen on a page. Now we've got a variety of technologies, frameworks, and languages all of which work together to help us build full on software applications that run within a browser.View Learning Guide...
Advanced WordPress Queries
3 PostsAlthough the WP Query is great and provides a lot of flexibility, you can actually take your development efforts a step further with more advanced querying of the WordPress database. Throughout this series, we're going to take a look at the advantages of advanced queries, how we interface with the WordPress database, and how we can retrieve, update, and insert new and existing data.View Learning Guide...
A Primer on Ajax in the WordPress Frontend
2 PostsWe're going to give a very brief overview of what Ajax is, how it works, how to set it up on the front, and understanding the hooks that WordPress provides. We'll also actually build a small project that puts the theory into practice. We'll walk through the source code and we'll also make sure it's available on GitHub, as well.View Learning Guide...
