In the previous part of our series we created the base for a WordPress plugin recognisible by the core. Today we are going to learn how to actually alter the default functionality of the core. The concept of hooks, actions, and filters is responsible for that; being the real heart of the whole WordPress plugins system. Everything starts from the “hooks” provided by the core itself.
Author: unuzero
PHP to Static HTML On The Fly
Data driven web sites are da bomb, in my not-so-humble opinion. The ability to drive information through a slim passage and have that information display, in various ways, is without a doubt amazing. Anything can be manipulated, altered, structured, added, removed and decided before it even hits the screen. Systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal have had their day in the sun.
Legacy Browser Compatibility for HTML5
As long as Internet Explorer will be around holding onto their share of the market in the world of legacy browsers, you’ll have to face the facts and develop your CSS to work around versions of Internet Explorer 7 and 8. We have had a ray of hope with the shunning of Internet Explorer 6 as it has now begun to join Netscape in the graveyard of browsers past.
SEO and Web Development: Smartphone vs. Desktop
With the explosive expansion in the use of tablet computers and smartphones for use in web searches, why are many SEO experts still focused on desktop development? Is it because developers do not feel the need to duplicate their efforts, or does the answer lie in the clients’ or employers’ unwillingness to tolerate the extra expense?
CSS3 Stitched Effect
When it comes to design the key is to do more with less. Too much makes a page look cluttered, too little makes it look like you are back in the 90s.
Luckily web developers can do some amazing things with CSS3 that give a page, or content within a page, that extra “pop” needed to make things stand out and look great without making the site look busy and thrown together.