WordPress has a lot of powerful tools that will speed up the development process by a great amount, the first one that you will encounter when creating themes is the WP_Query. For those who are not aware of what is the WP_Query, you can assume its the WordPress tool that will give you control over…
This week I was doing some a development review for a Agency here in Rio and we saw that we needed to discover the Attachment ID based on the URL. On version 4.0 WordPress introduced a function to allow you to grab the Attachment ID by image URL.
When you are using the WordPress structure to build your plugin from time to time you will need to insert an icon to make your plugin easier on the eye. A little while ago a few developers and designers found out that using images to display simple Icons was a bad idea, because of the…
As you start to develop plugins to sell or distribute for free on the WordPress plugin repository you will see yourself in one of the worst situations as a product developer. In order to improve your code you will need to let go of old code and introduce new stuff to the codebase. You will…
*If you already know what is an AJAX request please just jump right to the section where I will talk about [how to start coding](https://bordoni.me/wordpress/ajax-wordpress/#wordpress-backend).* ### What is an AJAX request First you will need to understand that an [AJAX request](http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX) is nothing more then a simple `GET` or `POST` to an URL that you…
Discover how to play with some hooks of your WordPress to allow you to have a list of users that are currently Online on your WordPress.
When I started to work with WordPress I didn’t know anything about how databases works or anything related to encoding and character set, but as I started into adventure myself on places like `pre_get_posts`, and the `WP_Query` filters such as `posts_join` and `posts_where`, I quickly found that understanding how the database works was a key…
I’ve been working for almost 2 months now with the guys from MailPoet, and there I’ve done some support along with @rafaehlers and from what I can see from his report on most of the tickets we receive are caused by bad email servers on shared hosting.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that they don’t know how to do it, but the way they need to do thing to avoid spammers make they email server a crap one.
