Shortcodes are a popular feature included in many plugins and themes. However, if you’ve never built your own shortcodes before, you may have no idea how to add them to your own WordPress projects. Thankfully, WordPress’ Shortcode API makes it fairly simple to create your own shortcodes. Doing this will enable users to take advantage of your plugin or theme’s features from any text-based area on their WordPress site. Including shortcodes in your projects is an easy way to build on the functionality you’ve already created, so you get the most bang for your buck. In this article, we’ll talk a bit more about how shortcodes […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.8.2013
It’s Friday! So let the weekend begin! Before you enjoy some time to rest and relax, check out these new and updated plugins in today’s roundup. I had to write today’s post on a PC like our friend Cam. Don’t know how he does it 😉 Here they are:
How to Use Patreon to Create a WordPress Membership Site
Crowdfunding has quickly become a normal way to generate capital for new projects and products. However, the approach suffers from many of the drawbacks of a non-subscription business model. Most crucially, you’ll need to rely on a high number of customers in order to reach your goals. Patreon was created in part to provide a consistent, ongoing income source to help creatives keep doing what they do. However, with the recent release of its WordPress plugin, the platform has now become an excellent way to create a membership website with WordPress. In this post, we’ll discuss the benefits of creating […]
Using WordPress For Application Development
One of the things that we’ve been discussing more and more here on WP Daily – and in the rest of the WordPress community, for that matter – is viewing WordPress and a framework or platform for developing web applications. Heck, we’ve even begun to share a few web applications that are built specifically using WordPress. The thing is, we’ve not actually spent time talking about why WordPress is a viable application platform, how it compares to other frameworks that are already available, and how to actually being using WordPress for Application Development.
Maybe We Should Just Trust The WordPress Security Team
This year, at WordCamp Miami, I shared an Airbnb with a few other WordPress developers. The door to the place we were staying had a keypad door lock. I guess I’m too dependent on my password manager because I promptly forgot the code. As a result, at the afterparty, when I was about ready to leave I found one of the people I was staying with—Chris Christoff a developer for Awesome Motive and Easy Digital Downloads, and a member of the WordPress core security team—to ask him for the code. As it turned out, I interrupted a discussion he was having […]
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