…to use a custom post type for this, adding my banners and displaying them where I need to in my theme. (If you want to do something similar, it's explained in this tutorial.)But invariably my banners have an expiry date. They might contain information about an upcoming event or a…
…to read the reports in the first sub-section of Order reports, i.e. Sale by Date. This section as we know is further divided into four sub-sections, which are Sales by date, Sales by product, Sales by category, and Coupons by date. Today let's take a look at the sub-section of Sales…
…ToWebinar from Citrix? No? Don't worry, you aren't alone. However, have you ever tried tying any service into WordPress? MailChimp, Mad Mimi, PayPal, Twitter? While these services differ in many specific, the general idea of how we can bring in data from external APIs into WordPress is the same. In…
…torial, we're going to be taking a look a the history of containerization, Docker, its components, and how to get started using it in our day to day work. But before we dive too deeply into the tutorial, let's take a look at what Docker is so that we gain…
…to write custom queries. To be able to define what WP_Query fetches from the database, you need to know what arguments you can use to query data.WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it to query just about anything held…
…to Imperva IncapsulaThis is the first of a sponsored, three-part series covering Incapsula performance and security services, brought to you by Imperva. Incapsula provides relatively low-cost services that often only large companies can afford to build; it puts the rest of us back on secure ground with Fortune 100 web publishers.In…
…to say that if you're a blogger, you want to highlight the most recent content on your blog so that people will spot it and read it. There are a few ways you could do this, including using different styling for the first post on your blog page to highlight…
…to execute scripts at certain regular intervals. It has become an important aspect for web-based applications as well. There are lots of ways in which cron is useful to websites, from sending regular newsletter mails to synchronizing the database with third-party systems. You can also use cron to clean up…
…to stay competitive with the needs of the web of now. Not everything in ES6 is for you, and in this little series of posts I will show features that are very handy and already usable.If you look at JavaScript code I’ve written, you will find that I always use…
…to use the WP_Query class to create custom queries in your theme files or plugins.This part of the series will take you through the arguments you can use to create both simple and complex date queries, to output posts published on, before, after or between given dates.I'll show you what…