-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Categories
Meta
Author Archives: admin
Day Ten: Adding A Threshold To the Event Calendar
In this tutorial we are going to add a threshold to the event calendar, which gives you a bit more control when displaying events. The issue that some readers have with the current event calendar plugin we have designed is … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Plugin Development
4 Comments
WordPress Custom Event Calendar – Displaying our events
After the last day, all we had left to do is to get the events that we stored in the database and display them on the calendar. Well, maybe this is easier said than done. In the video tutorial, we … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Development, Plugin Development
5 Comments
Adding Custom Post Type Counts To Your Dashboard
More than likely when you login into your WordPress Admin the first thing that you look at is the amount of posts, pages, categories, and tags being displayed in the “Right Now” meta box. Well, lets be honest you might … Continue reading
Posted in Tricks
Leave a comment
Create Your Own Button Shortcode
Adding buttons is something that a lot site require and having a dedicated shortcode just for buttons, makes the process a snap. Also, it provides a method for the designer to ensure the added button is thematically consistent. It also … Continue reading
Day Eight – Creating the Calendar Shortcode
The next step for our custom event calendar plugin for WordPress is to add a shortcode for displaying our calendar. I have created a video that goes over the steps and how we are going to use the query vars and shortcode attributes to set the displayed month. Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Plugin Development, Videos
4 Comments
Day Seven Again – Video Adding Query Vars and Rewrite Rules to WordPress
Here is a video that goes over day seven in more detail on how to add query vars and rewrite rules to WordPress. Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Plugin Development
Leave a comment
Day Seven – Adding Query Vars and Rewrite Rules
Starting off, this post is all about getting the URL structure we want to make our calendar not only function but have a pretty URL structure. Here is an example of a URL that I want to create: http://www.mysite.com/my-calendar-page/2010/09 The … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Plugin Development
5 Comments
Day Six – Repopulating The Event Meta Box
In the last day of this tutorial series, we focused on taking the data submitted in our meta box and saving it to the database. We did this by creating a class to handle the data. This class also included … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Plugin Development
Leave a comment
Day Five – Including a Class to Handle Saving Data
In the last day of this WordPress event calendar series, we added a custom meta box to our event post, but what we need to do now is take the data inputted by the user and save it to the … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced, Plugin Development
2 Comments
Day Four – Including JavaScript and Stylesheets In WordPress Admin
In the last tutorial, we added a custom post type for our events and created a meta box. To enhance the user experience we are going to add some JavaScript to our meta box. Also, we will need to add … Continue reading
Posted in Plugin Development
Leave a comment