WordPress Settings API Validation and Sanitization
Validation and Sanitization are two terms are often confused and/or misused by beginning developers. So what is the difference between sanitization and validation? Well let’s start with validation, as it happens before sanitization. Simply put, validation is verifying that the data being submitted conforms to a rule or set of rules you (the developer) set […]
Add Tabs using WordPress Settings API
When we use settings API a settings page is divided into four categories: tabs, sections, fields and settings. Tabs contains sections, sections contain field(form elements) and settings are just the value attribute of the form elements. There may or may not be tabs or sections but categorization is better. Actually settings API doesn’t provide any […]
Add Select Tag using WordPress Settings API
Here is example code which shows how to create a settings page using WordPress Menu API and add a drop down list to the settings page. Here we are using WordPress provided selected() function to compare the stored setting value and a chosen one. If they are the same it echos “selected” attribute or else […]
Add Radio Buttons using WordPress Settings API
Here is example code which shows how to create a settings page using WordPress Menu API and add radio buttons to the settings page. Here we are using WordPress provided checked() function to compare the stored setting value and a chosen one. If they are the same it echos “checked” attribute or else echos nothing. […]
Add Checkbox using WordPress Settings API
Here is example code which shows how to create a settings page using WordPress Menu API and add a checkbox to the settings page. Here we are using WordPress provided checked() function to compare the stored setting value and a chosen one. If they are the same it echos “checked” attribute or else echos nothing. […]
WordPress Coupon Site Plugin
This post is a part 7 of Premium WordPress Plugins post series. Coupon Site is a WordPress based plugin which can turn your WordPress site into an affiliate coupons site. This plugin is the most lightweight and bug free coupons plugins available for WordPress. It works with any WordPress site without any extra configuration. We […]
WordPress Overwrite Existing Feed Format Types Template
WordPress uses built-in templates to display RSS, RSS 2, Atom and RDF feed formats. WordPress also provides a lots of filters to alter the content of the title, description etc tags of the feeds. But to remove or add custom tags to the feeds we have to define our own templates as WordPress doesn’t provide […]
Add a New Feed Format Type to WordPress
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a new feed format in WordPress. This can be useful if you are creating a separate customised feed for Feedly and/or Flipboard subscribers. These feed aggregators support some extra tags and have some special requirements. WordPress by default supports four different feed formats: RDF RSS […]
JavaScript Scroll by Dragging
By default desktop browsers let you scroll an element or page using the mouse wheel. But its unfriendly when users want to scroll both horizontally and vertically. Mouse wheel doesn’t seem to be the best option in that case. Therefore we can let users scroll by holding the mouse button i.e., dragging. For example, Google […]
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