If you attended my WordCamp Phoenix 2018 talk Building Your First Plugin – A Complete Newbie’s Guide to Creating a Plugin thank you! It should be fairly obvious that a 45 minute WordCamp talk won’t have all the information you need to build a plugin. It’s a massive topic, so that is why I’m writing this […]
WordPress Plugin Development
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
This tutorial series is a look into the best practices for developing WordPress plugins. Who is this for? This tutorial is perfect for anyone who: Has dabbled in PHP coding. Perhaps you have added a few snippets of code to your child theme’s functions.php file. Has written a custom plugin, but want some guidance to […]
Troubleshoot Conditions in WordPress Plugin Functions
When I’m working on a plugin I often times will need to troubleshoot a function that isn’t working as expected. A lot of times I’ll have a series of conditions in the function to check for various things, such as a current_user_can() type of check. Often times the function will fail to execute as expected […]
Subscriber Discount Plugins Updated
I have two free plugins on the WordPress plugin repository, which let you automatically create discounts for subscribers to your mailing list. Subscriber Discounts for Easy Digital Downloads, and Subscriber Discounts for WooCommerce. I know, I’m really creative with the names 🙂 Out of the box, these plugins let you create unique discount codes for […]
