What is a Custom Post Type? I like to think of a custom post type as an object specifically as a different version of the WordPress Post object. You get all of the benefits of the post object but can name the object something else to suit your particular purposes. We created a custom post…
What is a Custom Post Type? It is basically a modified object under the parent Post object. Within each Custom Post Type, you get access to all of the features you get in the traditional Post object but it allows you to rename the post and create a myriad of ways of organizing your WordPress…
Media refers to a media item in the Media Library. So, when you click on Media in the left sidebar, you will see the WordPress Media Library, i.e. all of the media items uploaded via the Media Library to your site. A meta box in WordPress’ media library is often what appears under an image…
Creating a WordPress Admin Post action allows you to create a custom form and create a custom function that form data is sent to when the form is submitted. In other words, if you want to create a custom form and then submit that form to a function that you create, this is the post…
In order to pass PHP values to a JavaScript file in WordPress you have to make use of the wp_localize_script function. Before you can use the wp_localize_script function to access your localized JavaScript variables, you need to first register the script and then enqueue the script in a PHP file. We’re using the WordPress Plugin…
We have compiled a series of steps involved in creating a professional WordPress plugin settings page. The settings page allows admin users to add their settings for a plugin. This article shows you how to do the following: Add your admin menu to the left sidebar in the admin dashboard along with a submenu item…
I needed to add a slider to a page for a client’s website that used the Salient WordPress theme. Adding a slider to Salient WordPress theme involves 2 simple steps. Step 1: Add Slides under Nectar Slider Hover over Nectar slider in the left sidebar and click on Add New Slide Upload an image and make sure to select a Slider Location,…
In order to track conversions with Google Tag Manager, I needed to pull the revenue information out of the current page and put it into a custom variable in Google Tag Manager. The documentation is not very good with regards to how to do this. So, where do you start? We’ll show you the 3…
Adding custom columns to custom post types for your WordPress plugin is a simple 4 step process. For those of you who may not know what custom columns are for custom post types, the picture below shows custom columns for a custom post type listing called Products in WordPress. As you can see, there is…
I was recently confused when I needed to upload a jpg photo to a website. After transferring the photo that I took on my phone to my computer, I learned that the image was in the HEIC (high efficiency image compression) format. I learned that HEIC uses more advanced compression than JPG format and that’s…