First of all, here is the JSON API User Plus Plugin page. Use WordPress as back-end for your iOS and Android Mobile apps. JSON API User Plus WordPress Plugin allows you many features via REST API by extending JSON API Plugin. There’s a free version of the plugin also available JSON API User for over…
Featured image in WordPress posts is a great feature and in earlier versions of WordPress, adding thumbnails was a pain but no more.. But getting only posts with thumbnails is still not that straight forward. With WP_Query, you need to use ‘meta_query’ in your query with comparison operator to get to correct results, all other…
Thanks to ‘mattberg’ who developed the auth controller. I have authored it as a WordPress plugin so that it could easily be searched and installed. mattberg made Auth controller available here https://github.com/mattberg/wp-json-api-auth JSON API Auth plugin extends the JSON API Plugin with a new Controller to allow user authentication. JSON API for WordPress Plugin allows…
We all know that how good WordPress platform really is. Not only standard CMS based websites are now being developed using WordPress, but it is also being used for Mobile app development. Using RESTful API, we can easily extend the WordPress framework to mobile apps. There are many plugins that enable some of the WordPress…
In a WordPress template, if you need to show listing of child pages of a parent page, you can use following code. the first block is the query arguments. Place this code at the top of your template. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ =>…
Recently, I installed ShareThis plugin on a WordPress website (with counters) and I needed to show the count of total likes and shares for that domain but those counters just count for each page separately. If you want to show the site-wide count of the FB Likes, Google Plus and Tweets in your WordPress Blog,…
“ShareThis” is a great WordPress plugin for adding social links to your Posts and pages. ShareThis plugin seamlessly enables users to share your content through Email,Facebook,Twitter, Google +1, Like, Send and many more. This plugin works well but adds the social shortcuts to every page, post, excerpt and custom post type that you have in…
Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog. Email notifications in Mingle Forums is one area which needs improvement. Earlier for a previous version, I had posted a hack so that every member could get email notifications for any new topic started by any…
Recently working on a WordPress powered website, I needed to place different forms on the WordPress based website to generate leads and capture data. One contact form was to be setup through sidebar widget and other form was to be setup as lead generation standard ‘Get a Free Quote’ form placed in the theme header.…
Embedding Flash swf files in the WordPress is something which all designers and developers have to do to showcase their work. And since WordPress is now being used extensively not just for blogging but also as a CMS, there are more and more people showing their Flash portfolio in WordPress pages. Also, usually Flash files…
Search feature on website is the most important and crucial one and no one can search better than Google, even within your website. Google has made available custom Search engine option for all its AdSense accounts freely and it’s great option that every website owner must avail. Even if you don’t place AdSense ads on…
With the popularity of WordPress with ever expanding list of features, it’s now being used more as a CMS for a website than a blog. With this, more and more people have to move the WordPress form a sub-directory to root of a website to properly setup website. For all of its pages and posts,…
WordPress slowly but surely has become the most popular open source CMS but most users did not start using it as a CMS for their websites. I also started using WordPress as Blogging Platform and had a custom built CMS to manage rest of my website. But with the arrival of WordPress 3.x, lot of…
One of the best features in the WordPress 3.x is the ability to add multiple Menus from pages, posts, customs posts types or even just anything as you desire. It’s very easy to first register custom menu in the admin panel and then call in your theme files and style them as you want. To…
In WordPress, Custom Post Type is great feature to manage your custom content such as portfolio which can’t be managed properly with the default posts or pages type. One of the problem in working with custom post types is the pagination issue. If you are viewing the same records on the next or third page…