How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

Apr17
How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

They're pretty much everywhere on just about every blog and website these days, the featured post slider. Not terribly hard to implement, but still confusing to some that do not know the WordPress API. In this tutorial I will show you how to code your own WordPress Featured Post Slider and integrate it into your WordPress theme.
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Create a User Link Feed Bookmarklet

Jan18
Create a User Link Feed Bookmarklet
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Many design and tutorial sites out there have a user submitted links section or community links page in which users can submit their links and have them featured on the site in question. I thought it would be handy to provide users with a bookmarklet that would auto-fill the information into the form making it easier for users to submit these links.
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Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress

Nov27
Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress
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With the popularity of Twitter, short urls are almost a necessity these days trying to maintain the limit of 140 characters. Using a short url as default in WordPress tends to hurt your search engine optimization and looks just so, well, "default". Here are a couple of ways you can easily and automatically create a short url for use in WordPress without a plug-in.
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How to Create an Ajax Style File Uploader

Sep05
How to Create an Ajax Style File Uploader

In this tutorial we will be creating a simple Ajax style file uploader using jQuery, Ajax and Php. Something you can easily implement on your site, complete with front and backend validation.
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10 Incredibly Useful WordPress Customizations

Aug04
10 Incredibly Useful WordPress Customizations

WordPress is the most versatile and popular blogging software on the internet today, but out of the box it doesn't always do what you would like it to. Fortunately, many hacks have been found to whip it into shape and get even more functionality out of it for your own personal use.
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