How to load files within WordPress themes
How to appropriately load functions files and theme templates within WordPress themes.
I am Justin Tadlock.
I am also a writer. A front-end developer. A gardener. A small-town Alabama kid just trying to figure out whatever it is that that folks are supposed to figure out on this journey. Welcome to my little home on the web.
Sidebars in WordPress
How to properly register, load, and use dynamic sidebars and sidebar templates in WordPress themes.
Theme-supported features
How to use the theme support functionality to support WordPress features and build custom features within themes.
Development stylesheets for theme developers
How theme developers can use heavy stylesheets in development but provide lightweight stylesheets in the publicly-released themes.
Post view count extension for plugin and themes
A post-view counter that plugin and theme developers can integrate into their plugins and themes and build on top of.
Announcing DevPress
My team, DevPress, launched a new site featuring awesome WordPress themes, plugins, and tutorials.
Realizing a dream: Writing a WordPress book
My journey to become a published author and how the WordPress community has made this possible.
Post types and taxonomies: Linking terms to a specific post
When is something both a taxonomy term and post of a specific post type? How do we handle that scenario in WordPress?
Frameworks? Parent, child, and grandchild themes?
Solving the big mystery of parent, child, and grandchild themes by explaining what theme frameworks really are.
Fashion
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde … Continue reading →