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
Understanding loop in WordPress
The loop in WordPress refers to what content to display on a page you are visiting. It can be posts, pages or custom content. A loop can display single piece of content or a group of posts and pages that … Continued
WordPress core files and functions
WordPress core are primarily PHP files, also includes CSS, javascript, image and HTML files. You can explore the source code to know how WordPress works. These files control everything about WordPress. Primarily these functions are about following parts of wordpress … Continued
Configuring WordPress with wp-config.php
Basic Settings The most important file in WordPress installation is wp-config.php file. It contains all the configuration settings needed to run a WordPress site smoothly. The first step in installation is to rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. The file wp-config.php is … Continued
Introduction to WordPress
What is WordPress? WordPrss is a blogging platform. It is one of the most popular blogging platform around the web. WordPress is a content management system like Drupal and Joomla. It depends heavily on user generated content. WordPress is opensource … Continued