…ingIf you're asking, "What's Yii?" check out my earlier tutorial: Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of what's new in Yii 2.0, released October 12, 2014.In Programming with Yii2: Getting Started, we set up Yii2 locally, built a Hello World application,…
…In this tutorial, we are going to explore Magento blocks, one of the essential components of the Magento architecture. We'll see the difference between structural and content blocks. I'll also demonstrate how you can create custom blocks programmatically.What Are Blocks in Magento?In the Magento architecture, a "Block" is one of…
…ing at how to create a simple CRM system in WordPress. In the last part of this series, we added a custom email address field to our Contacts custom post type. We learned how to write and read this custom field data, and implement a nonce to ensure our form…
…ingIf you'd like to increase the likelihood that readers pasting your content will cite your website, use Tynt's free SiteCTRL Copy and Paste service. Tynt places Javascript on your WordPress site that allows you to specify a detailed citation and link to append to the user's clipboard. When readers paste…
…inherently weak in nature. Thus asking end users to create strong passwords for every application they use simply makes matters worse. An easy workaround is to let users authenticate via their existing social accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. In this article, we are going to do just that and…
…ingIf you're asking, "What's Yii?", check out my earlier tutorial: Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of what's new in Yii 2.0, released October 12th, 2014.This is part four of a series on Yii2. In Programming With Yii2: Getting Started, we…
…ing at how to create a simple CRM system in WordPress. In the last part of this series, we used Advanced Custom Fields to add custom fields to our Contacts custom post type. We learned how to use Advanced Custom Fields and configure it to work programmatically. Today, we’ll cover…
…ingMy client sells a few products and wanted a way for site visitors to be able to submit a review or testimonial about a particular product, and to display those reviews on their respective product pages in his WordPress site.I worked on this task all afternoon yesterday to my great…
…ing with parent and child themes in WordPress, you'll know that the template files in your child theme override those in your parent theme. So for example if your parent theme has a page.php file and you create a new one in your child theme, WordPress will use the one…
…ingIf you're asking, "What's Yii?" check out my earlier tutorial: Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of what's new in Yii 2.0, released October 12th, 2014.In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the newly upgraded Yii2…