Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
Many WordPress plugins include as their core functionality the ability to output things on the front end.
For example, an events calendar plugin needs to show a calendar on a page or post of your site.
That brings us to today’s topic. How do you, as a plugin developer, create a plugin whose output (styling and HTML structure) can be easily overridden by a user?
Although WordPress is a system that performs well in general, it’s worth delving a bit deeper into performance considerations when building plugins and themes for general distribution. You never know who will be using your plugin or theme, it might be a site with thousands of posts. At that level, the difference between an efficient plugin/theme and one that is not will be very evident.
TablePress enables you to create and manage tables on your WordPress site. No HTML knowledge is needed, as a comfortable interface allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data, even formulas that will be evaluated. An additional JavaScript library can be used to add features
The current trend in plugin development is all about having a core plugin and then developing other addons. But how do you prevent an addon plugin being activated when the core (parent) plugin is not activated?
The Settings API is essential when building themes and plugins.
Since many of our readers are doing just that, I thought I’d share with you the best resources on this excellent API.
Many WordPress developers are trying out their luck with selling themes on places like Themeforest or on their own site. Although it certainly seems like a crowded space, there is a lot of growth potential, in my opinion. Just take a look at one of our recent posts, where we asked which themes are missing from the market. We had quite a varied and interesting response to that question.
There are many resources where you can learn about WordPress nowadays, however books still have a special status for me. Luckily, we do find some really amazing books about WordPress out there, and I’ll be highlighting them in this post.
The inclusion of video in your site can enhance you visitors’ experience, and sometimes it is just easier to explain something via video rather than by writing out a long winded post. By default, WordPress automatically converts embedded links of Youtube, Vimeo and other video servies embedded in posts into
Today we are reviewing WP All Import, a plugin that makes it easy to import CSV files into WordPress.
There is a free version available on WordPress.org, but in this review I’ll be using the Pro version to show you all that’s possible with this plugin.
I’ve recently bought a Macbook Pro 13″ for development when I’m not sitting at my desk. This is my first experience with Apple and till now I’m delighted with my Macbook.
Since I still use Windows on my desktop system, one of the first things I needed to do was to find a way to sync my desktop environment with my mobile (Macbook) environment. I will be showing you how I achieved this in today’s tutorial.
I’ve made it a habit to use versioning while developing WordPress plugins, it helps keep everything organised and safe.
You of course also need to use version control when uploading plugins to the repository. Here are the two main applications I’m using. One of them is for Git, which I use locally on my Mac, and the other is for Subversion, which I use to upload plugins to the repository.
Embedding code in WordPress posts and pages can be a fiddly process. Lets learn what are our options for displaying code on our sites.