Custom controls for the WordPress Theme Customizer

Continuing our series of blog posts examining the development side of the Theme Customizer is this great post that discusses custom controls and shows you how to create your own with just a little bit of know-how.

How to change the custom post name in our Fest theme

Fest is an extremely popular events theme for WordPress, but we’ve found that some of our users have a bit of trouble changing the Speakers custom post type to suit their needs. In this guide, we’ll show you how to rename everything quickly and easily to add your own unique spin to the site.

Understanding WordPress filters and actions

Improve your knowledge of WordPress filters and actions with this simple, understandable guide that will help you understand how they work, and what they can do.

How to implement a newsletter plugin with our WordPress themes

If you’ve been using our WordPress themes, you may have come across a nice-looking but non-functional newsletter page. Pretty as it is, until you implement your preferred newsletter plugin that form isn’t going to be do anything. Thanks heavens that our resident WordPress expert is on hand to guide you through the setup process so that you can have a fully-functioning newsletter field in moments. Read on and learn more!

Theme Customization Screen – Controls

WordPress 4.0 included new ways for theme developers to add their own controls and make their configuration options unique and easy to use. In this tutorial, we offer an introduction to the subject that will help coders get started with their own original options!

Getting to grips with WordPress SEO plugins

Our inexperienced yet determined WordPress newbie moves on from the challenge of gallery plugins and tries to find out just what SEO is about, and if there are any plugins that are equipped to help a beginner find their feet.

Displaying Widgets By Language

If you’re building a multilingual WordPress site, then WPML is a great plugin that makes translation easy; you can modify articles, categories and text widgets with ease depending on language. But what if you want to display a complex widget differently for each language? Read on and we’ll show you how.

Using contextual controls in the WordPress theme customizer

WordPress 4.0 brought many improvements with it, but for developers the most important addition was probably the ability to use contextual controls for settings in the theme customizer, that allows direct control of when and where a given option appears in the customizer, depending on other option settings and the location of the preview window. Read on and learn how to turn this control to your advantage in your themes and plugins.

Controlling Facebook Link Previews and Getting to know Open Graph

Links shared as a content of Facebook status often don’t meet our predictions. Fortunately Facebook prepared a special protocol called Open Graph, which was prepared for solving issues with sharing content on our statuses. Open Graph is a best solution when you need to adjust title, description and the image for your needs.