…ew years ago, I wrote a series of posts discussing how to use Ajax in the WordPress Frontend. The purpose of the series is simple:We're going to give a very brief overview of what Ajax is, how it works, how to set it up on the front, and understanding the…
…e Odyssey was released. It famously featured HAL 9000, a supercomputer capable of a huge number of things: facial recognition, playing chess and even lip-reading. But the one thing that stuck in audiences' minds, and influenced every piece of science fiction since, was HAL’s ability to talk.These days, a computer…
…ention, Laravel developers! Our parent company Envato is keen to offer more Laravel items for sale on CodeCanyon, and is putting up $5,500 in prize money for the best Laravel scripts and apps submitted before 20 January 2016. Read on to find out how you can win.The PrizesFirst of all,…
…e previous post in this series, we revisited the topic of working with Ajax in WordPress. Ultimately, the goal is to improve upon a previous series that was run on the site a few years ago.To reiterate, it's not that the techniques taught in the original series were wrong, but…
…eb developers who are keen observers must have witnessed WordPress grow from a basic blogging forum to a fully-fledged development platform. Powering millions of websites today, WordPress has now been acknowledged as a globally accepted go-to CMS for web development. Initially, there was an impression that this CMS was aimed exclusively…
…e of the leading NoSQL databases, is well known for its fast performance, flexible schema, scalability and great indexing capabilities. At the core of this fast performance lies MongoDB indexes, which support efficient execution of queries by avoiding full-collection scans and hence limiting the number of documents MongoDB searches. Starting…
…e creating a site with some top-level pages that you want to draw visitors' attention to and encourage them to visit, it helps to have them displayed prominently in your site's header.Of course you can add top-level pages to your navigation menu, but in this tutorial I'll show you how…
…econd article of our Magento theme development series, we’ll set up the basis of our new theme. We’ll set up the basic directory structure of our new theme, inherit it from Magento's default Responsive theme, place the CSS, JS, and images in the appropriate locations, and create a new local.xml…
…e CreatingIf you followed my previous tutorial, you'll now have a theme on your site (or a child theme) which includes links to your top-level pages in the site header.I created a child theme of twenty sixteen, and this is how my links are looking right now:In this tutorial I'll…
…e all know that the WordPress Settings API is hard, and while it provides you with more control, there is a need for a single API that can be used to build admin panel settings pages, meta boxes for post types, and options in the customizer. This is where Titan…