40 Very Useful Wordpress Tutorials Help You Become an Expert

40 Very Useful WordPress Tutorials Help You Become an Expert

October 24th, 2010

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wordpress-icon Maybe most of you have heard the awesome news these days that Microsoft Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30M+ users to WordPress.com. It probably a big challerge for bloggers coming across to WP. Especially if you are not so familior with WP. Here we have prepared 40 very useful wordpress tutorials for you which may help you to be an expert. Whatever you are a beginner or senior, you will quickly find one you wanted. Now let’s start.

5 tips for using AJAX in WordPress

AJAX is used in many WordPress themes and plugins. However, not all of those themes and plugins implement AJAX properly. This article reveals 5 best practices in developing AJAX for WordPress.

10 Features to Look Forward to in WordPress 3.0

There are some great new features coming, including custom post types, a new default theme, and a menu manager. Read on to find out what to expect in version three!

10 WordPress query_posts tips

The query_posts command is one of the most useful in all of WordPress. It is this command that allows all the content to be queried (extracted from the database) and then displayed by the loop. It’s powerful because it gives an incredibly flexible method for retrieving and filtering the posts and pages in pretty much any way you can imagine.

Add Thumbnails to WordPress with Custom Fields

In this tutorial, it will show you how you can easily add thumbnails, lead image, and other extras to individual posts in WordPress. These images can be shown on the front page, archives, search pages, etc – but appear outside of the content, giving you full control of their placement and style.

Advanced Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers: Reloaded

It covers customizing basic content administration and adding features to the post and page editor in WordPress.

Automatic WordPress Thumbnail Without Custom Field

Let’s say you want to show thumbnails in your blog’s front page. A lot of blogs do that now and it’s a good way of making the page look more alive.

Custom CSS Per Post

This article features two functionial solutions to apply unique CSS styling to an individual page of content.

Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets

In this Tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.

Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

WordPress login logo looks nice, but sometimes you may want to change it, for example when building a site for a client. In that case, you can use a plugin, or simply take advantage of this cool hack.

Creating Helpful and Effective WordPress Archives

So in this post, it offer some pointers on creating a quality archive section for your blog that will serve as an inspired homage to the awesome content that it contains.

Control your own WordPress custom fields

Custom fields are really flexible. However, they’re not perfectly user-friendly. For instance, if no post or page is currently using a custom field that you’ve built functionality on, the user has to enter the name as well as the value of the field the first time it’s used. The drop-down of field names is dynamically gathered from the fields currently in use. Also, sometimes you want to make things easier for clients by having inline tips, and inputs that suit the field (e.g. a checkbox or select drop-down instead of just a plain text entry).

Declare Multiple Widgetized Areas

Have a bunch of different areas you wish to declare as a widgetized area? Save repetative code by creating a quick array of their names, then loop through that array calling the register_sidebar() function on each one.

Get to Know the WordPress Hierarchy

WordPress’s popularity and usefulness as a multi-purpose content management system, continues to grow, and the more people flock to using this CMS the more an understanding of some of the basics of how it operates becomes necessary.

Highlight WordPress Category when on a Single Post: Tutorial

Follow the steps below and you should beable to get your categories highlighted too when on a single post.

How to automatically use resized images instead of originals

This script will replace the uploaded image (if bigger than the larger size defined in your settings) by the large image generated by WordPress to save space in your server, and save bandwidth if you link a thumbnail to the original image, like when a lightbox plugin is used.

How to Build a Custom WordPress Theme from Scratch

This overview shows the process of how my latest custom WordPress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into the various WordPress theme files, and discover how the simple PHP snippets can add that dynamic functionality of a blog.

How to Create a Better WordPress Options Panel

In this tutorial it go through the entire process of creating an admin options panel for a WordPress theme, using the excellent WooFramework as an example. Then, we’ll take things a step further, as we implement jQuery to improve some of the functionality.

How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial

In only 11 individual lessons this WordPress Theme Tutorial is going to show you how to build a powerful, up-to-date, WordPress Theme from scratch.

1. WordPress Theme Tutorial Introduction
2. Theme Development Tools
3. Creating a Theme HTML Structure
4. Template and Directory Structure
5. The Header Template
6. The Index Template
7. The Single Post, Post Attachment, & 404 Templates
8. The Comments Template
9. The Search Template & The Page Template
10. The Archive, Author, Category & Tags Template
11. The Sidebar Template
12. Reset-Rebuild Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts

How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site

This tutorial will allow you to easily switch between the live site and development versions using two different themes on the same installation of WordPress. We’ll do this by creating a bar at the top of the page which will clearly show you if you’re viewing the live theme (what everyone else sees) or the development theme with a link to switch between the two.

How to Create an Author Info Section in WordPress

It’s common to find an author’s credit and bio at the end of a blog post, especially on blogs that post content from multiple writers. Using a cocktail of WordPress template tags, an info section can be easily put together to showcase the author’s Gravatar profile image, their name, link to their website and short bio.

How to Customize fonts in WordPress blog with CSS3

Fonts type that can be used for Safari, Chrome and Firefox3.1+ are .ttf(True Type Font) and .otf(open type font). Both support the @font-face rule that allows stylesheet to point to a .ttf or .otf on server. IE has little problem with .otf.

How to: Embed CSS in your posts with a custom field

Sometimes, a specific post needs to be styled with some custom css styles. Sure, you can directly embed CSS in your post, but that not very clean. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to embed css in a clean way, by using a custom field.

How To Design A Clean and Minimal Portfolio Website

This tutorial demonstrates that you don’t need to use lots of fancy effects and fonts to create a clean design – it can still look professional without overdoing things.

How to Implement Ajax in WordPress Themes

It showes you how we can implement Ajax in our WordPress themes with the help of simple example.

How To Make A Dynamic jQuery Feature Post Slider For WordPress

What it does is dynamically display posts from the ‘Featured’ category, using the easySlider jQuery plugin. It’s easy to do, and adds a nice animated and dynamic feature to your site.

How to Split WordPress Content Into Two or More Columns

jQuery Dropdown Navigation in WordPress

You will learn how to enhance you WordPress in a whole new way. Multi-Level or Multi-Dimensional navigation menus can offer your theme and users 2 new things. One, add a nice new type of effect to enhance your theme. Two, allow the users to find things more easily. We will start off by making a HTML version, then making it compatible with WordPress.

Make Shortcodes User-Friendly

This article shows you how to make shortcodes in your themes and plugins more accessible and user friendly.

Remove/Replace Content from the WordPress Database

A useful tool to have in in your WordPress toolbelt is the ability to quickly and easily search for, find, and replace specific strings of text directly from the MySQL database.

Showing Random Posts In WordPress

There are a lot of plugins you can use to show random posts, but why use plugins when it’s so simple to do it with a bit of coding. Here is how to do it.

Styling Different Posts in Different Ways With Post_Class

This gives a set of CSS classes to a post, depending on what’s in the post (e.g. based on what category it is in).

The Essential Elements of your First WordPress Design Site (Part 1)

This tutorial is in the series of “WordPress Theme from Scratch” that help you build a WordPress theme by yourself from nothing. On 1st day, we will start working with Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a cool WordPress layout in Photoshop.

The Easy Way To Make WordPress Ajax Pagination Using jQuery

Making your paginated content in WordPress load using AJAX is extremely easy using a bit of jQuery.

Using HTML5 elements in WordPress post content

HTML5 has several new elements that you may want to use in your post content to markup document sections, headers, footers, pullquotes, figures, or groups of headings. One way to safely include these elements in your posts is simple; the other way is a bit more complicated. Both ways rely on hand-coding the HTML5 markup in the WordPress editor’s HTML view.

WordPress 3.0 Features Walk Through

WordPress 3.0 is all set release on May 1st 2010 with lots of breathtaking improvements and exciting new features which will surely bring this platform one step ahead. So, what actually we can expect to bundle up with this release? Here is a walk through!

WordPress Breadcrumbs Without a Plugin

Breadcrumbs is an important element of a web site navigation, which boosts his usability. Especially it concerns to a sites with a complex structure.

WordPress functions.php Template with 15 Essential Custom Functions

In this DiW article, it first provide an explanation of each of the 15 functions and then bring them all together into the working functions.php template. Just copy and paste the template code at the end of this article or grab a copy of the zipped functions.php file and enjoy a custom collection of functions that will help you optimize your development process while enhancing WordPress with essential functionality.

WordPress hack: Show your top contributors without a plugin

Do you ever wished to be able to list your top contributors without using a plugin? If yes, you’ll be happy with this recipe that will show you how to do it.