This part two of a series looking at two different programming styles (sometimes called programming paradigms) that you can use when writing WordPress...

This is part 3 of a series of articles looking at how your plugin or theme can best integrate into the WordPress admin user interface. In this part we are...

This is part 2 of a series looking at how your plugin and theme can provide the best user experience by 'fitting in' with WordPress' native UI. This means...

It’s long been widely accepted that one of the biggest advantages WordPress has over its competitors is its admin user interface. It is, on the whole, very...

Wherever possible it's better to use screen-specific hooks rather than more generic init, admin_init, admin_footer etc. (unless you specifically want your...

In this previous article I looked at helping keep your theme or plug-in secure through appropriate data sanitization and validation. In this article, we'll...

Proper security is critical to keeping your site or that of your theme or plug-in users safe. Part of that means appropriate data validation and...

This is part two of a series looking at WordPress' Rewrite API. In part one we took a whistle stop tour of the basics of WordPress' Rewrite API. In this...

This is part one of a two part series looking at WordPress' Rewrite API. In this tutorial we look at how rewrites work and the basic methods available to...

Menu items, pages and (hierarchical) taxonomies are all examples of data with a tree like structure: terms can have parents, children and siblings. Usually...

A common request, particularly for those who have created custom post types like 'News' or 'Events', is to add a link to their post type's archive page on...

If you've got a plug-in hosted on the WordPress repository then you'll be fairly familiar with SVN and some of its commands. In this tutorial I'll show you...