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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 | 51 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 06, 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 | 76 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 | 26 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 | 87 Responses

How to create custom views in bbPress

How to create custom views in bbPress

By Justin Tadlock on July 15, 2009

A tutorial on creating custom views for bbPress that covers creating the views, listing them, and making custom templates to handle their display.

Tagged bbPress, bbPress Tutorials | 16 Responses

How to filter a WordPress theme’s ‘more link’ text

How to filter a WordPress theme’s ‘more link’ text

By Justin Tadlock on July 01, 2009

A tutorial on how to create custom more link text for your WordPress theme using the_content_more_link filter hook.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 37 Responses

Sliding Panel: WordPress Plugin

Sliding Panel: WordPress Plugin

By Justin Tadlock on June 25, 2009

A fully-widgetized, jQuery-based sliding panel for your WordPress-powered blog. This widget area allows you to add whatever content you want to your panel.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 97 Responses

Showing the post password form for excerpts in WordPress

Showing the post password form for excerpts in WordPress

By Justin Tadlock on June 24, 2009

How to replace excerpts for password-protected posts in WordPress with a password form instead of the standard no excerpt message.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 13 Responses

Series: WordPress Plugin

Series: WordPress Plugin

By Justin Tadlock on June 09, 2009

A plugin that allows you to tie posts together in a series using the WordPress taxonomy API. It includes built-in widgets, shortcodes, and template tags.

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 77 Responses

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