Ok, so a day or two ago I worked through the widget options and the first basic widget section, called the constructor. The middle section of the widget defines how WP handles updates to the widget. We are updating the instance of the widget we saved before. Mine looks like this: This part is actually [...]
I quickly gave up working with the WordPress Codex and found what I think is a better starting point from WPengineer.com. Widgets are broken down into three basic sections. The first section is the actual widget; what it’s doing and what it’s displaying. The middle section is how the updates are handled. When you save [...]
Last week I said I needed to make a fairly simple widget for a client site built on WordPress. The purpose of the widget is to basically to replicate the functionality of the “Text” widget that comes standard with WordPress, then add a couple of extra little bits of functionality to it. Granted, this could [...]
So for the first time I find myself needing to build a simple widget for WordPress. I figured I should document the journey here (mostly because 3 months from now I’ll forget it all and have to look back here). This widget has 3 basic elements: A title A text field Radio buttons to select [...]
The more I use WordPress the more easily I can pick out other sites that use it. I frequently catch myself appending /wp-admin/ to the URL to see if it’s a WP powered site. But what kills me, especially if it’s fairly obvious that the site has been created by a third party developer, is [...]
If you’re looking to add a little social media integration to your WordPress blog then their Dev center docs on Open Graph are a good place to start. They’re essentially a way to pass along information about your site to Facebook, so when a visitor on your site clicks a "Like" button the information in [...]