Shah Alom

URL shortening is a technique in which a URL is made substantially shorter in length and still links to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect on a domain name that is short, which links to the web page that has the longer URL.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a URL shortening plugin for WordPress using Google’s URL Shortener API.

In this series we’ll be looking at using custom database tables. We’ll cover how to create, maintain and remove the table, as well as how to safely, and efficiently, add, remove and query data. In this first article we look at when custom tables might be appropriate, the pros and cons of using them and how to create the table.

WPGear.org is a compendium of useful developer tools for working with WordPress.

How

WordPress-Gear is meant to be community driven, please feel free to jump in and add/remove any useful information via GitHub.

The easiest way to contribute is to have a GitHub account then click index.md, then click edit. This will automatically fork this project to your account so you can make changes, then submit a pull request. There are additional instruction if you want to clone this locally in the readme.

In this tutorial we cover the various feed formats WordPress provides and how to access them. We’ll also look at customizing these feeds programmatically.

The theme framework you’ve built will be used as a parent theme in the sites you develop. This means that in each case you’ll need to create a child theme to create a unique site with its own design and with extra or different functions compared to the framework.

The obvious way to go about this is to dive in and start creating template files in your child theme to override those in the framework, but thanks to the action and filter hooks you’ve added to your framework, this might not always be the best approach.

In this article, I’ll outline some of the techniques you can use in your child themes to make best use of your framework and improvise your workflow.

There are a couple of ways to start using Sass:
1. Applications : There are a good many applications that will get you up and running with Sass in a few minutes for Mac, Windows, and Linux. You can download most of the applications for free but a few of them are paid apps (and totally worth it).

2. Command Line : In Linux:
If you’re using a distribution of Linux, you’ll need to install Ruby first. You can install Ruby through the apt package manager, rbenv, or rvm.

Most likely you know that WordPress is bundled with the HTML WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE. The variety of features, and the ability to be extended though plugins, make it the most used WYSIWYG editor in the world. WordPress doesn’t make use of all its features, however. WordPress customizes it and only keeps parts which are really helpful to users, avoiding messing up the user interface. That also means some features, buttons for example, have been hidden from users. You can totally enable the hidden MCE buttons. Typically they are stylesheet, sub, sup buttons. If even the hidden ones still don’t satisfy your needs, then you have to create a TinyMCE plugin to do add your own. In this tutorial, I will walk you through the basics of adding your WordPress Editor buttons by creating a TinyMCE plugin.

WordPress Shortcodes have become a standard in any premium theme or plugin, just as they should. They allow users to design and organize posts or pages, add functionality and insert elements without learning web development languages and programming techniques.

Even though they are easy to use, there are just a few things that are still difficult with shortcodes:

Shortcode tags – When you have many shortcodes, it gets tough remembering the name of the shortcode tag you want to use.
Shortcode attributes – Shortcodes can have many attributes and remembering the name or what each one does is impossible, and you are likely to get some wrong.
Shortcode editing – When you have use many shortcodes in your content editor, the editing of the content gets messy and it’s hard to understand and follow the content flow.