Scheduling Events In WordPress Using Cron Jobs
WordPress operations like backup, security check, logs cleanup, email newsletters etc are automated so that they occur after every defined amount of time. These kind of operations are basically done using wordpress cron jobs which run a callback after a defined amount of time. What Is WordPress Cron Jobs? WordPress cron jobs is a set […]
Creating Custom WordPress Shortcodes using PHP
This post is a part 5 of Creating a WordPress Admin Theme post series. What is WordPress Shortcodes WordPress shortcodes are a text patterns(with opening and closing square bracket tags) in post content which are replaced by php functions before displaying to the user. For example: [download url="http://qnimate.com/download.exe"]Download Now[/download] The above shortcode is converted to […]
Advanced Guidelines To WordPress Theme Development
In this post I will list out some important features which every WordPress theme must have and some guidelines to wordpress theme development. Theme testing After you are finished building a wordpress theme make sure you test in on the latest WordPress release and also in atleast two previous releases. Template tags A template tag […]
Preventing CSRF Attacks In WordPress Using Nonces
WordPress nonces are a great way to protect from CSRF attacks which is very common throughout the web. In this article I will explain what is CSRF attacks and how to prevent these attacks in wordpress using nonces. What is CSRF Attacks? CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) is a type of attack in which requests […]
WordPress Frontend Registration And Login Forms
In this article I will show you how to create a AJAX based login form for wordpress frontend. Before continuing with this article please read my article on integrating AJAX in wordpress. First let’s see some core wordpress functions which are necessary to build a login and registration system on frontend of wordpress. wp_signon wp_signon […]
AJAX In WordPress
Now a days a lot of wordpress themes are build with AJAX functionality. All these themes can retrieve and add posts, pages, comments, users etc using AJAX. Integrating AJAX into WordPress is very handy if you want to create a single page wordpress theme. In this article I will explain the core about integrating AJAX […]
How To Integrate Forms On WordPress
Sometimes we might want to integrate subscription, contact, upload forms etc on WordPress front-end. These forms can make a POST request to the wordpress server. In this post I will show you how to handle POST requests in wordpress. WordPress Requests During a wordpress request WordPress takes the request URL and using regular expressions it […]
Setting Up SEO Friendly WordPress Maintenance Mode
Putting your wordpress website in maintenance mode can be done using plugins or putting wordpress code in files manually. It doesn’t end here, we also need to make sure that maintenance mode doesn’t effect page authority of the pages due to unavailability. I this article I will discuss ways to put wordpress website in maintenance […]
Managing HTML Element Classes Using classList API
It was always difficult to manage classes of HTML elements using JavaScript, therefore developer depended on jQuery class management function to manipulate classes. But now the new classList API makes manipulation of classes easy in JavaScript. Let’s see the different functions belonging to classList API: classList property classList property of HTML elements is the heart […]
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