My experience with WordPress goes back to at least 2008, if not a little before that. When I first started using WordPress, it was purely for my own websites. I only used it to blog on various topics that interested me. I never created a theme or a plugin at that point in my life, […]
How Frequent Should Evergreen Blog Posts Get Shared?
As a plugin developer, sometimes it’s hard for me to step away from the code and focus on selling the products I’ve made. My head seems to always be thinking about the next thing I can create. So recently, I decided I needed to put a freeze on new development, and start focusing more on […]
How to Remove the Admin Toolbar in WordPress
There are many WordPress sites that have end users who have no need to see the WordPress admin toolbar. You know, that black bar that shows up at the top of the site when you’re logged in. It is extremely useful for admin users to be able to quickly jump between front end pages and […]
Intro to WordPress Plugin Development: Best Practices
In this first part of the Intro to WordPress Plugin Development series, we’ll be taking a look at some best practices for coding your plugin. Specifically, we will take a look at these areas: How to set up the plugin header Formatting your code Use of meaningful names in files and code File organization How […]
Intro to WordPress Plugin Development: Separate Into Multiple Files
We’re nearing the end of the Intro to WordPress Plugin Development series. While we’ve gotten into some more advanced topics in the series, I want to circle back to one of the original concepts. In the best practices section of this series, we talked making your plugin readable to others. This helps if anyone ever […]