Adding metaboxes to post types
WordPress allows additional information to be input along with the posts. These additional information is entered through metaboxes. Metaboxes can be either simple textbox, listbox, or upload button or any other form element. For example a property description needs a … Continued
Creating menubar using HTML and CSS
Menu bar or navigation bar is a a collection of list items. Menu bar can be either horizontal or vertical. Both types of menubar and menu items are created using HTML list items. Let us see how we can create … Continued
Creating locations for navigational menu
WordPress allows navigation menus to be created easily in your dashboard using Appearence->Menus. By going there you can create as many as navigational menus. Navigation menus can be placed either in widgets or in the locations specified by the theme. … Continued
Getting bootstrap for your website
Every web page is made up of HTML elements to display content and CSS rules to change the appearance of those content. Bootstrap is a framework that makes it easier to create beautiful website. Bootstrap has predefined CSS rules which … Continued
Installing and configuring xdebug in Ubuntu
Xdebug is a tool used to debug PHP scripts. It is used as an extension to get debugging information. To get more information about Xdebug go to http://xdebug.org . Installing and configuring xdebug in Ubuntu is easier with inbuilt package available. … Continued
Understanding Theme Development
Themes control presentation layer of your of your site. It is responsible for user experience for your site’s content. Themes allow your same content to be presented differently to your visitors. Themes makes your content beautiful and accessible. Here we … Continued
Understanding Plugin Development
WordPress is such a popular platform because it’s such an easy thing to extend functionality using plugins. The plugins can be created without altering anything in the core. Any new functionality is implemented by writing plugins. Plugins provide endless possibilities … Continued
Understanding and creating custom Taxonomy
Taxonomies are a way of grouping similar items together. This makes content to be relational. By default WordPress comes with two taxonomies Category – Allows grouping of similar posts, categories are hierarchical Tags – Allows grouping of similar posts, not … Continued
Understanding and creating custom post types
WordPress has by default has few types of content and taxonomies to add our own content. To build website to handle more complicated content we need define custom content types and WordPress has rich tools for creating custom content. Using … Continued
Understanding data management in WordPress
WordPress is powered by MySQL database in backend and stores all the data for website including content, users, metadata, settings , links etc. The default installation of WordPress contains 11 tables. It is very minimal but very flexible. The plugins … Continued