New WordPress Basics Course at Treehouse

For the last several months I have been rewriting all of the Beginners WordPress content at Treehouse. Excited to announce today that WordPress Basics, the third of seven or so beginners courses in our Learn WordPress track has been released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-L5gyGZUo This course covers how to manage content in WordPress, how to work with different types of … Continue reading New WordPress Basics Course at Treehouse →

A “Classic” Color Scheme Plugin for the WordPress Admin Area

Sometimes when I'm working in the backend of so many different WordPress sites I like to change the admin color scheme so I can tell at a glance what site I'm working with. While working on a rebrand for Web Hosting for Students, I came across a great admin color scheme, called WP Admin Classic Colors, that looks … Continue reading A “Classic” Color Scheme Plugin for the WordPress Admin Area →

Great WordPress Plugin for Reordering Posts, Pages and More

EDIT: It does not look like this plugin is still available One of the things I really like about this plugin in relation to the other plugins that do something similar is that there is no extra page within the admin menu hierarchy. It works right on the main Posts/Pages pages. It's a premium plugin … Continue reading Great WordPress Plugin for Reordering Posts, Pages and More →

An Introduction Into WordPress Actions and Filters

Thanks to Gennady Kovshenin for the awesome, thorough article on WordPress Actions and Filters. I would say it gives you about everything you need to know. Thanks man!

BackPress – WordPress Stripped Naked

I came across BackPress while reading about the WordPress Plugin API a while back. Basically it provides all of the core actions and filters from WordPress core to be used outside of the WordPress environment. Not sure when I'll have the chance to work with the framework, but it looks really cool and an awesome … Continue reading BackPress – WordPress Stripped Naked →

Helpful Resource on Building WordPress Plugins using Templates

Looking forward to implementing some of these tips in my next plugin project! Thanks Remi 🙂 Link: Plugin Templating within WordPress

The woocommerce-hooks.php file is where it’s at for WooCommerce Templating

EDIT: This file has been moved to woocommerce/includes/wc-template-hooks.php Fully customizing WooCommerce did not make sense to me until I finally tracked down this file: /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/woocommerce-hooks.php. This file lists all of the hooks and all of the actions that are added to the hooks. So, if you've ever tried searching through the rather abstracted template files … Continue reading The woocommerce-hooks.php file is where it’s at for WooCommerce Templating →