Tag Archives: Wordpress Featured Content

WordPress Featured Content 10

Wordpress Featured ContentI didn’t plan on doing this tutorial since part 9 of this series, but I wanted to add a few features. I go into detail on those features after the video.

I also wanted to show you how to use the Featured Content Slider I made for WordPress. All of the code is available in a zipped archive.

I’m not going to upload this to the WordPress plugin depository, so this is the only place to get it. Don’t worry it is still free to use however you’d like.

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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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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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Featured Content Gallery 3

Featured Content SliderHere I continue to add a bunch of features to my Featured Content Slider. Along the way I’ll also show you how to do many neat things with JQuery.

I started by focusing on a WordPress Featured Content Plugin, but then decided to make a tool that would work on any website with Featured Content Gallery pt 2.

You should definitely check out those 2 tutorials before you proceed with this video tutorial. All of the code like always follows the video.

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Featured Content Gallery Pt 2

Make Featured Content ToolIn my previous tutorial, I started creating a WordPress Featured Content Plugin. In this tutorial I’ll actually continue with the original goal while at the same time provide you with a Featured Content Gallery you can use anywhere.

Also because I’ve received many questions since I posted my JQuery Video Tutorial I’ll answer many of those here.

It should make for a jam packed tutorial.

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WordPress Featured Content

Wordpress Featured ContentIn this video tutorial I’ll show you how to make a WordPress Featured Content Plugin. The design is based off of one Phil sent into me.

The featured content plugin will however be designed so simply that anyone should be able to easily style it however they like.

In this part of the tutorial I’ll specifically cover the html and cascading style sheet code that is required.

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