Creating your own field is actually a pretty simple matter. In this article Daniel Pataki will show you how you can extend ACF by adding your own controls to tailor the experience to your needs. If you want to add elaborate JavaScript to make things as user-friendly as possible, that’s all up to you – ACF supports it nicely. You can use a bunch of methods to play around with values and fields and much more. Browse through the template file for more information.
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In this tutorial, Matthew Ray will show you how to set up a GitHub repository to push updates to your plugin, wherever it resides. While you always have the option to use the WordPress Subversion repository, there may be instances where you prefer to host a plugin yourself. Perhaps you are offering your users a premium plugin. Maybe you need a way to keep your client’s code in sync across multiple sites. It could simply be that you want to use a Git workflow instead of Subversion. After reading this, you should be able to update your plugin by clicking the “Update now” button on the plugins page!
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Prototyping makes a project better suited to users, elevates user experience, increases the quality of your final code, and keeps clients happy. The problem is that developers often see prototyping as a waste of time. In this article, Daniel Pataki will show you that by using WordPress, highly interactive prototypes with great visuals are not at all that difficult to make. While all this seems complex, beginners should be able to follow along easily, including the “create your own server” section, which is a cinch!
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As a WordPress user it is only natural to want more and more control over your website. To crave custom design, custom functionality, custom everything. Luckily, WordPress is built for exactly that. Its flexible structure and compartmentalized architecture allows anyone to change practically anything on their site. On your way to mastering WordPress, learning to use page templates is an important step. They can make customizing your website very, very easy and allow you to assign unique functionality and design to as many or few pages as you wish. If you want to know how WordPress page templates can help you achieve that, read on!
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The PHP community is big. A lot of best practices have been learned over the years. The bigger the codebase, the harder it is to keep track of all the working parts and their relationship to one another. And you can add to that the limitations imposed by working in an antiquated version of PHP, 5.2. It’s good to always look beyond the walled garden of WordPress to look for answers. With autoloading and a plugin container we are one step closer to better code. In this article Nico Amarilla will explore an alternative way of developing WordPress plugins, using the lessons learned from the greater PHP community, the world outside WordPress.
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Depending on the website’s architecture, you could store the metadata in a category, a tag, a custom taxonomy or a custom field. In this article Carlo Daniele will show you how to let your website’s subscribers decide when they want notifications, and linked to a particular location. Today you are going to add several functionalities to WordPress’ core, and the CMS allows you to declare our own custom functions in the main file of a plugin.
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One of the best attributes of WordPress is its ease of use. It’s easy because there’s not a significant amount of bloat with endless bells and whistles that steepen the learning curve. On the flip side, some might find WordPress a little light. It does a lot, but not quite enough. In this article, Brian Onorio will explore the process of registering new data types in a fully compliant manner. Once you get the hang of it and you create a few of these, it’ll start to come naturally. Although this article is long and in-depth, it really is about a 10-minute process from concept to conclusion once you fully understand what’s going on.
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As great as WordPress is, the standard way in which it approaches the archive is far from user-friendly. Let’s fix that today! In this article, Karol K will build an archive page for WordPress that’s actually useful. The best part is that you will be able to use it with any modern WordPress theme installed on your website at the moment. This custom archive page will be based on a custom page template. The page will be responsive and will not depend on the current theme of the website it’s being used on.
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With Mat Marquis of the Responsive Images Community Group, Tim Evko decided to refactor a plugin that he had built several months ago, hoping that it would lead to a more useable and performant solution. After months of pull requests, conversations on Slack and help from WordPress’ core team, they’re finally ready to share what they’ve been working on! You can download and install RICG Responsive Images from WordPress’ plugin directory.
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In this tutorial, Collins Agbonghama will talk about ROT13 encryption and how it works. You’ll see how text can be programmatically encoded in ROT13 using PHP. Finally, you’ll code a WordPress plugin that scans a post for blacklisted words and replaces any in ROT13 encryption. Even if you don’t end up using the plugin, the concepts you’ll learn in creating it can be applied to many situations, such as obfuscating or encrypting inappropriate words (such as profanities) in ROT13, which would be a nice feature in a forum where people have the freedom to post anything.
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