Category Archives: Development

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

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Seeing WordPress Rewrite Rules

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

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

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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Your Own Custom Post Types

There is an exciting upgrade to WordPress that makes it a more versatile content management system called custom post types.  To better understand what a custom post type is, the most common example used is to create a post type for … Continue reading

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The Beginning Steps to Writing Your Own WordPress Plugin

The beauty of Wordpress is ability to be customized. The plugin API provided by Wordpress is extremely extensive and having knowledge of how to create your own plugins will allow to take your development to the next level. Continue reading

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