Create A Google Static Maps Plugin

"In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a plugin that uses Google’s Static Maps API to display a map. We’ll also look at the differences between enclosed and non-enclosed shortcodes. The Google Static Maps APIGoogle provides two versions of it’s Maps API for developers: dynamic, requiring JavaScript, and static, which simply returns an image and doesn’t require JavaScript. Dynamic maps allow you to zoom and pan the map as well as manipulate the map programatically in response to user-generated...

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Using The Settings API: Part 1 – Create A Theme Options Page

"If you create your own themes you will, sooner or later, want to allow your theme users have some control over certain appearance and/or functional elements of your theme. When this time comes you will want to use the powerful WordPress Settings API. With it, your code becomes simpler, more efficient and more secure. IntroductionThis tutorial is not the first to be written on using the Settings API to create a theme or plugin settings page. In fact a good number of tutorials are available in...

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Using the Settings API – Part 2: Create A Top Level Admin Menu

"This is Part Two of “Create Theme Settings Pages that use the Settings API” tutorial. In this part, we will be looking into how we can create a top level admin menu with more than one settings pages as well as how we can add tabs when we need them. If you have not yet had the chance to read Part One, you may want to do that first before you continue. This tutorial builds on the code shown in the first part of this tutorial. A look at what we will be creatingJust like we did in Part One lets take...

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Posted in: Create A Top Level Admin Menu,Settings API,Tutorial,WordPress