by Jon Penland | Dec 2, 2016 | development, WordPress Development, wordpress loop, Wordpress Resources, wp query
Let’s say you want to do something unique with the way posts are queried and displayed on a particular page of your website. Maybe you want to have multiple queries — one for featured posts and one for recent posts. Or perhaps you want to exclude certain...
by Jon Penland | Nov 22, 2016 | development, sidebars, Tutorials, widget, WordPress Development, Wordpress Resources
Have you ever wanted to create a custom widget for your WordPress website? While WordPress does include a built-in text widget, which you can use to display HTML along with embedded CSS and JavaScript, if you want to do anything more than that the text widget just...
by David Attard | Oct 14, 2016 | actions, development, filters, hooks, WordPress Development, Wordpress Resources
We’ve been covering quite a few WordPress web development topics recently, so you’ve probably already heard about hooks, actions, and filters. These are an essential part of the using the event-driven architecture used by WordPress. And they are your...
by Jon Penland | Sep 25, 2016 | post order, Tutorials, WordPress Development, Wordpress Resources, wp query
Have you ever tried to change the standard order of posts on your site’s blog page? By default, posts are ordered based on the date that each post is published, and there’s no built-in way to change the order in which posts appear. If you do want to change...
by Daniel Pataki | Apr 16, 2016 | custom fields, metadata, WordPress Development, Wordpress Resources
Over the past 12 months, I’ve written a number of posts that focus on adding functionality to WordPress using custom fields. We’ve looked at creating custom post list templates, crafting the perfect travel blog and more. While plugins like CustomPress and...
by Daniel Pataki | Apr 8, 2016 | default scripts, jquery, scripts, WordPress Development, Wordpress Resources
WordPress comes with a whole bunch of default scripts out-of-the-box that you can take advantage of to power your themes and plugins. jQuery is one commonly used script, as is TinyMCE. But what if you want to replace a built-in script with your own? We recently...
