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Top WordPress Plugins from CodeCanyon: November Edition

"WordPress is a powerful content management system, and the vast array of plugins available certainly helps. CodeCanyon has long been a great place to find top WordPress plugins. From content and security to galleries and sliders, there’s plenty to choose from. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the most popular WordPress plugins available at CodeCanyon. 1. UberMenu UberMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable mega menu ( or mega drop down menu ) WordPress plugin. It works out of the box...
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PHP for WordPress: Mastering Conditional Statements and Tags

"The conditional statements feature is an extremely useful and powerful feature in WordPress; still it remains unused in the development process. You can achieve many things by the simple and smart use of these statements. Sometimes when you need specific text or a unique image to appear on a specific page and not on any other pages in your site, by using conditional statements along with WordPress conditional tags you can achieve this easily without creating multiple pages or templates. What are Conditional Statements?PHP “If” statements are generally known as conditional statements. These statements...
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Load jQuery From Google CDN With Local Fallback For WordPress

"In this tutorial we are going to cover why loading jQuery from the Google CDN with a local file fallback is important, and how to set this up for WordPress. If you’re still trying to self-host your own copy of jQuery (or lots of other script libraries for that matter!), this is a great way to quickly improve your workflow. Introduction When I first took a look at HTML5 Boilerplate there was this great code snippet for loading jQuery from the Google CDN with a local file fallback. <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery...
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5 Cardinal Sins of WordPress Theme Development

"We talk alot on this site about tips and tricks for getting what you want out of WordPress… but today we’re going to take a step back from the technical stuff to look at some practices, bad habits, and coding faux pas that would be better left in our past. So, forgive the heavy-handed post title (haha!), we’re about talk bring up 5 surprisingly common practices that are blemishes on the platform. Two of the nicest things about working on WordPress Themes is that fact that we get to target in an incredibly flexible environment (that is, the web) and we have solid documentation to help guide...
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