Justin Tadlock
Life, Blogging, and WordPress
  • Home
  • About
    • Movies
  • Archives
  • Contact
  • Writing
    • Creek Hill
      • Chapter 1: Okay Mr. Pudgy, We Can Go Now
      • Chapter 2: The Tater Creek Intersection
      • Chapter 3: Independent, Free, and Wild
      • Chapter 4: The Last Night of Their Lives
      • Chapter 5: Going Back
      • Prologue: Creek Hill Memorial Hospital
    • Essays
      • Coke, Pepsi, Vinyl, and the DVD Format War
      • Less Than Ethically Fit
      • Shoulder Strap Style
      • Taking My Language With Me
      • The Real Buffy?
    • Fan Fiction
      • The Beginning of a Dawn (Chapter 1)
      • The Beginning Of A Dawn (Chapter 2)
    • Fiction
      • Bay-Bay
      • Mary Beth
      • Somebody, Someday
    • Musings
      • Tortured Artist
      • Trapped In His Life
    • Nonfiction
      • Bedtime Adventures
      • Fading Away
      • He’ll Always Be Papa
      • I Was Sixteen
      • The Tiger Taxi Guy
    • Old
      • Claws
      • The Wind Is Blowing
    • Poetry
      • Dear Journal
      • I Wanna Be An October Cold Front
      • October 2, 2005
      • REAL
  • Subscribe

Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock

My name is Justin Tadlock. Somehow, you've managed to stumble upon my blog. Take a look around, and tell me what you think.

Plugin and theme authors should force users to upgrade

Plugin and theme authors should force users to upgrade

By Justin Tadlock on September 22, 2009

By cutting off backwards compatibility, WordPress theme and plugin developers can help keep users’ sites more secure.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Discussion | 54 Responses

Custom capabilities in plugins and themes

Custom capabilities in plugins and themes

By Justin Tadlock on September 18, 2009

How to make your WordPress plugin or theme more flexible by allowing users to select who has access to its settings page(s).

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 27 Responses

Members: WordPress Plugin

Members: WordPress Plugin

By Justin Tadlock on September 17, 2009

Members is a plugin that extends your control over your blog. It’s a user, role, and content management plugin that was created to make WordPress a more powerful CMS.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 170 Responses

Adding and using custom user profile fields

Adding and using custom user profile fields

By Justin Tadlock on September 10, 2009

How to create and display custom user profile fields in WordPress that allow users to input additional information about themselves.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 82 Responses

Beta test my upcoming user, role, and content management plugin

Beta test my upcoming user, role, and content management plugin

By Justin Tadlock on September 7, 2009

The first test release of my user, role, and content management plugin for WordPress. I’m looking for people to test it and provide feedback.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 51 Responses

Users, roles, and capabilities in WordPress

Users, roles, and capabilities in WordPress

By Justin Tadlock on August 30, 2009

An explanation of how the user, role, and capability system in WordPress works and why it is important to grasp this concept..

Tagged WordPress | 49 Responses

Some thoughts on success

Some thoughts on success

By Justin Tadlock on August 26, 2009

Some random thoughts about success I’ve been thinking about lately in my journey to find a hard-working group of people to build a business together.

Tagged Business, Life | 33 Responses

How to disable scripts and styles

How to disable scripts and styles

By Justin Tadlock on August 6, 2009

Does using multiple WordPress plugins load so many files to your site that it becomes unbearably slow? If so, you can easily disable scripts and styles and load them only when needed.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 63 Responses

Contextually changing your theme's stylesheet

Contextually changing your theme’s stylesheet

By Justin Tadlock on July 27, 2009

How to dynamically load different stylesheets when you need to drastically alter the style of specific pages on your WordPress-powered site.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 25 Responses

Developing a user management plugin

Developing a user management plugin

By Justin Tadlock on July 22, 2009

WordPress is in need of a better user management plugin. Here’s what I have in mind. What would you like to see in this plugin?

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 86 Responses

← Previous EntriesNext Entries →

Recommended Purchases

Gravity Forms Plugin for WordPress 'Digging Into WordPress' book for WordPress users

Scribe SEO

Latest Posts

  • It’s the little things that matter
  • Showing custom post types on your home/blog page
  • 2010
  • Rule #2: The guide to a successful blog
  • Omelet and toast
  • Introducing Kirby Junior
  • My Snippets: WordPress Plugin
  • Sidebar (widget area) descriptions in WordPress 2.9
  • Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9’s post image feature
  • Excerpts and taxonomies for pages in WordPress 2.9

Cool WordPress Stuff

  • Cleaner Gallery WordPress Plugin
  • Get The Image WordPress Plugin
  • Hybrid WordPress Theme Framework
  • Query Posts WordPress Widget
  • Widgets Reloaded WordPress Plugin

Tutorials

  • Creating an image gallery with WordPress bookmarks
  • Doing more with gravatars: Part 1
  • Installing two WordPress blogs with the same users
  • Making your theme’s comments compatible with WordPress 2.7 and earlier versions
  • Replacing WordPress content with an excerpt without editing theme files

Must Read

  • How much control should users have?
  • If you were a WordPress theme developer
  • In defense of the WordPress 2.5 widget panel
  • Replacing “sidebar” in WordPress
  • Screw the premium theme market.

Copyright © 2010 Justin Tadlock.

Powered by WordPress and Hybrid.