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WordPress Custom Taxonomies: How and Why to Create Them
Organizing your content is one of the core features of a content-management system (CMS) like WordPress. As such, WordPress contains “taxonomies” to help you keep your content easy to find for both you...
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PHP for Beginners: Starting on Backend WordPress Development
WordPress, the content management system the internet loves. You can use it for years without needing to tackle PHP, but eventually you’re finding yourself needing it. You go to Bing and search “php...
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Course: WordPress Theme Development (Core Concepts)
Welcome! WordPress themes are one of the most important topics that one must understand to be good at WordPress development. Themes underlie the entire visual half of WordPress sites, but often grow to...
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How to Create WordPress Custom Page Templates (& Why)
There are many many ways you can change the look of a specific page on your WordPress site. You can change the content inside the WordPress content editor. You can change the CSS rules that affect the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Object-Oriented PHP for WordPress Developers
Our goal today is introduce object-oriented programming in PHP, as the basis to discuss OOP in WordPress. In WordPress, object-oriented PHP is a well-known learning challenge. I remember my first...
View ArticlePHP Static Methods in Depth: What They Are & How they Work in WordPress
One of the things that often confuses people new to object-oriented PHP is what are called “PHP static methods” and “static properties”. They’re often confusing, because you simply aren’t used to the...
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Last time, we covered the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP: what an object is, what a class is, and how they interact. Today, we’re going to cover an intermediate OOP topic: how...
View ArticleWhere and How to Use WordPress Hooks in Objects
You’ve maybe noted that we’ve recently been writing about WordPress and object-oriented programming in PHP a lot. Just last week, Fred published an article about PHP magic methods, especially...
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