WordPress Featured Content 9

Wordpress Featured Content SliderIt seems like I started this WordPress Featured Content tutorial forever ago. Well in this tutorial I finish it.

I have shown you how to do pretty much anything with WordPress in this tutorial. All of those things I have missed have already been covered in my basic WordPress Theme Tutorial or in my WordPress Plugin Tutorial.

Like always the code follows the video. You can do what ever you want with it under the GNU license.

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Web Sharing Forbidden Lion

Mac OSX LionIf you recently installed Mac OSX Lion and now can’t start Web Sharing, or if you get a 403 Forbidden Message when you try to access your web server I have a fix.

The first thing you should do is to open the Console app. To do that click in the Spotlight Search box in the upper right hand corner. Type Console and then double click the application to open it.

This sounds more complicated than it is

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WordPress Featured Content Pt 8

Wordpress Featured Content 8Here I finish what I started in part 7 of the WordPress Featured Content tutorial.

I’m focusing on how to dynamically create the featured content slider after a new post has been saved.

The main skills you’ll develop here, aside from how to make the slider, is how to keep your code very organized as you proceed through a complicated project.

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WordPress Featured Content Pt 7

Wordpress Featured Content 7In this part of the tutorial, I continue making a WordPress Featured Content Slider.

I’ll specifically show you how to do many things with WordPress like:

  • Find out what category a post is in
  • Get the URL for the Plugin Directory
  • Retrieve Post Titles, Excerpts, Meta Data
  • Make custom queries for the WordPress database

WordPress Featured Content Pt 5

Wordpress Featured Content This tutorial is both a continuation of WordPress News Theme and my WordPress Featured Content Tutorial.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to turn the previous html / css version of the featured content slider into a WordPress featured content plugin.

You’ll learn how to make a meta box that allows the user to define the featured image they want to associate with their post.

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Google Plus One Button and WordPress

Google Like Button

I received a ton of emails recently asking how to use the Google Plus One Button on a WordPress site.

This is extremely easy to do. You can set up everything from inside of WordPress with a few simple copies and pastes.

So, open up your WordPress dashboard on your favorite browser and we’ll be done in a few minutes.

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WordPress News Theme Pt 3

Wordpress News ThemeHere I finish all of the HTML and CSS for the WordPress News Theme. Here is all of the code and images from the tutorial zipped archive. It’s licensed under the GNU License, so you can do whatever you want with it.

I’m really proud of this tutorial series because I’ve received many emails crediting this tutorial with getting them a job.

If you haven’t seen my first WordPress Theme Video Tutorial, check it out first.

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WordPress Newspaper Theme Pt 2

If you want to know how to create professional grade WordPress Themes and plugins, you are in the right place.

If you don’t know anything about how to create a WordPress theme check out WordPress How To first. There you’ll learn how to create WordPress themes, plugins, widgets, shortcodes, etc.

When you’re ready you can proceed to this tutorial. Of course you should watch part 1 first WordPress Newspaper Theme.

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WordPress Newspaper Theme

Wordpress Problems SolvedIn this tutorial series I’ll show you how to make a WordPress Newspaper Theme.

This Newspaper Theme has all the bells and whistles. It can display 15 featured content articles. It allows you to display articles based off of categories. A lightbox will allow you to display videos or galleries dynamically. And, a whole bunch more.

Before you try to understand this please check out my video on how to make WordPress themes from scratch WordPress How To. Otherwise you may be confused.

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