Category Archives: WordPress
How to create a Shortcode for your WordPress Theme
Shortcodes are a very useful and popular feature in WordPress sites. They allow users to invoke certain functionality directly from a post, page or a widgetized area. Shortcodes are popular in plugins as well. Core WordPress already comes equipped with several shortcodes that you can use without any custom plugins or coding and you can see all Core WordPress Shortcodes if you are into that.
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Creating a Plugin That Consumes a Web API in WordPress
In this tutorial, we are going to build a plugin that provides a shortcode which would show either all links or links for particular tag(s) that a user has in the Delicious.com's bookmarking platform. Each post or page of the user can theoretically show the links of a different user because we will require the username and password of the user with attributes (probably not the best idea out there, a wiser way would be to add a configuration interface in the admin dashboard).
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Adding Custom Design or Functionality to WordPress Pages and Posts
Pages, posts and tags are the essence of WordPress. Pages are hierarchical pieces of content that can be grouped into children and parents - each page can have several child pages and those child pages can have their own children. For example, the page structure of a electronics website could be Gaming -> Consoles -> Portable Consoles Consoles. Posts, on the other hand, can be grouped into categories while tags are strictly non-hierarchical, loose groupings of content.
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