Internationalization and Localization Internationalization is the process of making your theme or plugin capable of being translated to other languages by you or other users, that means to use certain functions at the time of outputting to the front-end. On…

Coding standards Some quick notes for the WordPress Coding standards (PHP) php opening and closing tags must be on a line by themselves. don’t use short php tags (<? ?>) If our code is not processing any variable or information,…

Administration menus Administration menus help us to interact with our admin settings, these are the menus located in the back-end of the wordpress. Adding custom admin menus to wordpress We can add custom admin menus to wordpress via our plugin.…

What is Meta data? Metadata can be termed as data of data or information of information, it is the additional data we may add for our posts How to add meta data? We can use add_post_meta() to add meta data…

What is WP QUERY? WP Query is a class inbuilt in WordPress which will help us, know the current query a page is running or initiate a new query to get data from database. How to use WP QUERY? Here…

Custom Post Types What are custom Post Types? WordPress works on the logic of Post types, for example As we see in the wordpress in admin back-end, Posts, Pages, -> All these are post types How to create a custom…

WordPress Development Basic What is a Plugin? Plugins are packages which help us improve/extend the core functionalities of WordPress. Plugins are defined with a main header file which contains the plugin header in the format below In these header settings,…

Using wordpress How can I disable admin toolbar for a specific user.To disable toolbar for a specific user, Goto Users -> All Users Click Edit below the username of the user you want to show/hide the toolbar for Uncheck the Show Toolbar when viewing…

Using WordPress User roles Super Admin : Allows access to the Network Admin interface & all other admin featuresAdmin : Allows access to all the admin features of a single siteEditor : Allows access to publishing and accessing posts including posts of other…

WordPress features Here are some features provided by WordPress: Multisite: We can manage and edit multiple sites via a single WordPress installation. Drag-n-Drop: WordPress helps user to do complex tasks with just some drag and drops, for e.g. file uploads.…

PHP: Got to know about the role of phpcs.xml, and how all the rule sets are defined in it for PHPCS to function. ** Always separate different or un-similar lines or group of lines in your code with new lines,…

PHP: empty() does not throw an error or warning if an uninitialised or undeclared variable is provided. spl_autoload_register(): Used to define your autoload pattern in PHP code to automatically include classes when called. (define custom function to load) use: we…