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Courses

Working With Meta Boxes in WordPress
In this course we’re going to look at how to implement our own custom WordPress meta boxes using WordPress best practices, coding standards, and APIs. ...
Tom McFarlin
16 Jan 2014
Code
1.5 hours
Using the WordPress Settings API
What is the WordPress Settings API and where do you get started? Tom McFarlin knows the WordPress API inside and out, and in this course he’ll give you all...
Tom McFarlin
25 Jun 2013
Code
2.2 hours

Tutorials

What Is jQuery?
In this article, we're going to take a look at everything that jQuery offers and how it can help us, and we're going to review some of the projects that have...
Tom McFarlin
10 Nov 2022
Code
Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Filters
In this two-part series, we're going to review the WordPress hook system and how it's implemented, and we're going to take a look at how to define both our...
Tom McFarlin
1 Sep 2022
Code
Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Actions
In this two-part series, we're going to review the WordPress hook system and how it's implemented, and we're going to take a look at how to define both our...
Tom McFarlin
31 Aug 2022
Code
How to Include and Require Files and Templates in WordPress
In the WordPress world, one of the most common points of confusion is the proper way to include external files. PHP offers four ways to do this. In this...
Tom McFarlin
21 Apr 2021
Code
Adding Custom Fields to Simple Products With WooCommerce
In WooCommerce, let's say that you have a simple product that you want to sell but you want to include a little more information about the product to display...
Tom McFarlin
19 Jan 2017
Code
Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 4
In the final part of this series, we'll employ everything we've learned thus far by applying namespaces to our code and writing our own autoloader.
Tom McFarlin
17 Jan 2017
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 4
In this tutorial, we'll have a complete refactored solution that uses some intermediate object-oriented principles like inheritance. We'll also have a few...
Tom McFarlin
29 Dec 2016
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 3
In this tutorial, we'll begin implementing our Settings Messenger by adding support for errors and success messages as well as covering some points on security.
Tom McFarlin
22 Dec 2016
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2
We're going to be making a call to the custom hook that we'll define, and we'll wire that up on the server-side. We'll also start the groundwork for our...
Tom McFarlin
15 Dec 2016
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 1
It's possible to implement a system that allows us to programmatically set our own custom messages, their type, and when and where to display them on the...
Tom McFarlin
8 Dec 2016
Code
Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 2
In this tutorial, we're going to take a practical approach to our WordPress plugin by introducing object-oriented concepts learned from the previous tutorial...
Tom McFarlin
25 Nov 2016
Code
Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 1
In this follow-up series and starting with this post, we're going to be revisiting the concept of autoloaders from the perspective of object-oriented...
Tom McFarlin
18 Nov 2016
Code