Tag Archives: jQuery

Extended WordPress Settings API Tutorial, Part 2

Download the files (updated June 5, 2011) This post is based on part 1 of this tutorial, so read it if you haven’t. We left off with a theme options class, My_Theme_Options, that had all the behind-the-scenes work complete. The next step is the HTML.

Extended WordPress Settings API Tutorial, Part 1

The WordPress Settings API has been around for a little while, but I haven’t used it until now. I highly recommend it. It does a lot of work for you and is still flexible enough to create custom-styled options pages (with a little jQuery). Once you’re done with this tutorial, this is what you’ll have: [...]

Meet the WordPress Settings API

I’ve been working on my own WordPress theme framework for the past several months, and it’s getting closer and closer to completion every week. A few months ago, after I had finished writing all the code for the framework’s theme options page, I learned of the WordPress Settings API. I initially ignored it because I [...]

5 tips on writing WordPress plugins "the right way"

Just like many fellow programmers out there, when I first started publishing my own code for the world to see and use, it wasn’t the greatest. I didn’t fully understand the WordPress API and all the tools it had to offer. I have since learned a lot about how to write WordPress plugins “the right way”—the most efficient, clean, and safe way, that is. WordPress has functions, classes, and hooks that work right out of the box to make plugins easier to code and less risky to use. Here are a few of my favorite tips.