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Day Three – Creating a Custom Post Type and Adding a Meta Box

Posted on September 20, 2010 by admin

In the previous two days of this tutorial series we focused on setting up the plugin and creating the table in our database. This tutorial we are going to create our custom post type that will be for our events … Continue reading →

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Day Two – Design and Creating our Database Table

Posted on September 19, 2010 by admin

In day one of this series we focused only on setting up a canvas so to say for our plugin. This tutorial will be dedicated to creating our table that we will use to store our event information. We will … Continue reading →

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An Event Calendar Plugin Series Begins

Posted on September 19, 2010 by admin

Over the next few days we are going to create several tutorials on how to create a custom event calendar.  These will be an in-depth on not only how to create a custom calendar but WordPress in general.  We will … Continue reading →

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Our First Plugin Released

Posted on September 6, 2010 by admin

I have just complete and uploaded our first plugin. It is a super simple user login redirect hence the name simple login redirect. It adds a section of content to the user’s profile that allows you to specify a redirect … Continue reading →

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Five Ways to Control the Length Of Your WordPress Excerpt

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

Do you want an excerpt that is either longer or shorter? There are several method to limit or length your excerpt and we will look at 5 in detail. Some are simple and other will be a bit more complex. … Continue reading →

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Seeing WordPress Rewrite Rules

Posted on August 16, 2010 by admin

If you have ever wondered how permalinks and the WordPress rewrite class work, there is no better way to find out than to display the WordPress rewrite rules. If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite class, it provides the function … Continue reading →

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A Custom Meta Box with a Datepicker

Posted on July 26, 2010 by admin

This tutorial will cover how to add a meta box to your custom post type for saving a date. We will need to create the meta box which will contain a field to represent the date. The input for the … Continue reading →

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Advanced Custom Post Types – PHP Class Integration

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin

It was quite apparent to me that the addition of custom post types made this version of WordPress the most powerful yet. When I first saw their power, I began adding custom post types immediately. One recent theme I developed … Continue reading →

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What is WordPress Taxonomy and How to Add Your Own Custom Taxonomies

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin

Taxonomy is defined by Wikipedia as practice and science of classification and if you have been using WordPress then you are familiar with taxonomies. Posts are an example of an item that can be classified. You can assign a post … Continue reading →

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Simple But Great Function home_url()

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin

home_url() is a new function added to 3.0 version of WordPress. It template function that allows you to create URL’s that begin with your home address. Home_url() might sound complicated but it is extremely easy to use and will make … Continue reading →

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