Category Archives: WordPress

Themes, Plugins, coding and design concepts as well as general discussion about developments within the popular WordPress content management system community.

Child plugins in WordPress. An idea?

I’ve been read­ing a lot over the past few months about child themes in WordPress and how users have found them to be an invalu­able resource when cre­at­ing WordPress themes. What’s this “child theme” thing? For those unfa­mil­iar with the concept, the way I’d explain it is as fol­lows: A user chooses a WordPress theme (or theme […]

Custom URL rewrites in WordPress — A Getting Started Guide

Hey every­one. I’ve been tweet­ing quite a bit recently about cus­tom URL rewrites in WordPress. After a few hours of trial and error, I’ve man­aged to get my spe­cific cus­tom URL rewrites work­ing. After read­ing through sev­eral tutori­als online (the major­ity of which used the same examples to explain only a por­tion the inform­a­tion I was look­ing for), here’s […]

WordPress theme features: What would you like to see?

I’ve been rolling the idea around in my head for a while now to cre­ate a WordPress theme, packed with all the fea­tures I find myself repeat­ing on each pro­ject, as well as some new, use­ful fea­tures… and maybe a few whacky ones as well. Yesterday, I jot­ted down a list of fea­tures I’d like to poten­tially include in this theme… some […]

Obox launches the Obox Theme Store

Well, guys, launch day is here. The Obox Theme Store is online! After weeks of watch­ing Dave, Marc and Nat at Obox work­ing late nights and early morn­ings, week­ends, pub­lic hol­i­days and all other kinds of days ima­gin­able, the launch has happened, the first sale has come and gone and I must say, it’s look­ing AWESOME! […]

A few guidelines for WordPress plugin development

The WordPress plu­gin API is vast and power­ful. It allows developers to essen­tially hook code into almost any area of the WordPress sys­tem without modi­fy­ing the core files at all. It also allows for the cre­ation of stan­dalone plu­gins that work within the WordPress sys­tem but do not hook into the core mod­ules. Over the […]

My WordPress plugins toolbox

Hey every­one, Just thought I’d post a list of my most reg­u­larly installed WordPress plu­gins and why they are installed on vir­tu­ally every WordPress install­a­tion I do. If there are any plu­gins I haven’t lis­ted that should be, please let me know in the com­ments. 1. Maintenance Mode This plu­gin is truly awe­some. It allows the developer and […]

Getting the information of a root page in WordPress

Often, when using WordPress as a con­tent man­age­ment or blog­ging tool on a web­site, one uses a multi-​​​​level page struc­ture. This entails a page being lis­ted “under­neath” another page in a tree struc­ture. Usually, if your WordPress installation’s permalinks devi­ate from the default set­ting, your page URL struc­ture will look some­thing like this: http://websiteurl.com/parentpageslug/subpageslug (Note: note a real URL) What if you […]

WordPress Shortcodes… in short

In the spirit of the topic, I’ll keep this post short and sweet. Today I’ll be dis­cuss­ing WordPress’s short­code API and how to util­ise it. WordPress short­codes are codes (eg: [list_​​bookmarks]) which can be typed into the con­tent area of a page or post in order to provide func­tion­al­ity of some kind. Shortcodes can be wrapped around […]