Send a Quick Email with WordPress Have you ever wanted to send a quick email from the WordPress dashboard? After all, you can configure WordPress to send an email when a comment is posted, so you should be able to send an email upon request as well! Well, with the Quick Mail WordPress plugin you Continue reading »
Top Tools for Membership Site Owners Did you catch the WishList Products, Top Tools for Membership Site Owners webinar, on 17 July 2014, hosted by Stu McLaren, WishList Products Co-Founder? This seminar was an update of one of WishList Members most popular presentations from a few years ago. Well if you didn’t catch the webinar, Continue reading »
Add Buttons in WordPress Without Shortcodes
Forget About Shortcode Buttons, Add Buttons in WordPress Interactively Lets face it, we don’t want to type complex HTML and CSS code every time we need to insert a button into a blog post or page. I don’t know about you, but I also find trying to remember shortcodes a pain in the rear end. Continue reading »
XML Sitemap: Find Broken Links and Fix Using a Link Checker Tool

XML Sitemap: Find Broken Links and Fix Using a Link Checker Tool What do you imagine visitors to your website do when your internal or external HTML hyperlinks don’t work? What do you do? I usually abandon the website, never to return. Well, that’s precisely what most visitors do. They look for the information elsewhere, Continue reading »

WordPress Jetpack Emergency Update Just received this message from JustHost Support regarding a WordPress Jetpack Emergency update 2.9.3 which was released by WordPress Jetpack on 10th April 2014: Jetpack has released a critical security update for their plugin. In a recent security audit, Jetpack discovered a vulnerability in their plugin that would allow an attacker Continue reading »
Plugins Index

Plugins Table of Contents (TOC) Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In this directory you can find everything I find interesting about plugins for WordPress. Theres articles on writing plugins, plugin reviews, downloads, and comments. Don’t forget to rate and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has Continue reading »
170 Plugin Release and Promotion

170 Plugin Releasing and Promotion Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” series So, your plugin is finish! Sorry, it’s not! Plugin development does not end when you’ve finished coding, there are several more items you need to consider. Items such as documenting, publishing, localizing and promoting your plugin. This Lesson – Objectives Continue reading »
150 Database

150 WordPress Database Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” Series This Lesson Objectives In previous lessons we introduced plugins, built a basic working plugin template file structure and created a plugin class for our plugin. Every WordPress based web site on the Internet today is connected to a MySQL database backend that Continue reading »
162 CSS Inclusion with Plugins

162 CSS Inclusion with Plugins Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” Series Objectives In this lesson we will discuss and demonstrate the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with your WordPress plugin. The use of these functions will also avoid problems that will arise when your themes or plugins both use the Continue reading »
161 Javascript Inclusion with Plugins

161 Javascript Inclusion with Plugins Part of the "How to Write a WordPress Plugin" Series Objectives In this lesson we will discuss and demonstrate the use of JavaScript with your WordPress plugin. This information is equally appropriate to theme design. Almost all WordPress Themes and Plugins use or are reliant upon JavaScript and Cascading Style Continue reading »
143 Admin Menu 0v3 Text to Hyperlink (How-to Video)

143 Admin Menu 0v3 Text to Hyperlink (Video) Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” series This Lesson – Overview This lesson is part of the series covering the WordPress administration menus and options pages. In this lesson we will go a step further with admin menus by demonstrating how to save your Continue reading »
142 WordPress PK Admin Menu 0v2 A Top-level and Sub-level Menu (How-to Video)

142 WordPress PK Admin Menu 0v2 Demo Top-Level and Sub-Level Menus (Video) Part of the "How to Write a WordPress Plugin" series This Lesson – Overview This lesson is part of the series covering the WordPress administration menus and options pages. In a prior video I demonstrated the very basics of how to make an Continue reading »
141 WordPress PK Admin Menu 0v1 Demo – A Simple Sub Menu (How-to Video)

141 WordPress PK Admin Menu 0v1 Demo – A Simple Sub Menu (Video) Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” series This Lesson – Overview In previous lessons we introduced plugins, built a basic working plugin template file structure, created a simple plugin class for our plugins and produced some easy demonstration plugin Continue reading »
140 WordPress Administration Menus/Panels/Pages (How-to Video)

140 WordPress Administration Menus/Panels/Pages (Video) Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” series This Lesson – Overview In previous lessons we introduced plugins, built a basic working plugin template file structure, created a simple plugin class for our plugin and produced the demonstration plugin, Text to Hyperlink. In this series of lessons we’ll Continue reading »
131 Text to Hyperlink Filter Example (How-to Video)

131 Text to Hyperlink Filter Example (Video) Part of the “How to Write a WordPress Plugin” series This Lesson – Overview In this lesson we’ll continue the hooks, filters and actions topic with a demonstration filter. This continues the previous lessons where we introduced plugins, built a basic working plugin template file structure and created Continue reading »


