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Courses

Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development
In this course, we're going to take a look at everything that goes into building a WordPress plugin. We'll start from the ground up by setting up a web...
Tom McFarlin
8 Apr 2015
Code
1.5 hours
The WordPress Theme Customizer
The WordPress Theme Customizer, introduced in WordPress 3.4, is a feature that allows users to customize their themes and see a live preview of the changes...
Tom McFarlin
17 Mar 2014
Web Design
1.5 hours
Design Patterns in WordPress
In this course, we’re going to take a look at what are known as software design patterns. Simply put, design patterns are reusable solutions to common...
Tom McFarlin
27 Feb 2014
Code
1.6 hours
Working With Meta Boxes in WordPress
In this course we’re going to look at how to implement our own custom WordPress meta boxes using WordPress best practices, coding standards, and APIs. ...
Tom McFarlin
16 Jan 2014
Code
1.5 hours
Using the WordPress Settings API
What is the WordPress Settings API and where do you get started? Tom McFarlin knows the WordPress API inside and out, and in this course he’ll give you all...
Tom McFarlin
25 Jun 2013
Code
2.2 hours
WordPress Widgets: Front To Back
In this course, we’ll review the process of building custom WordPress widgets using the WordPress API and advanced development techniques. This course begins...
Tom McFarlin
18 Mar 2013
Code
2 hours

Tutorials

Adding Custom Fields to Simple Products With WooCommerce
In WooCommerce, let's say that you have a simple product that you want to sell but you want to include a little more information about the product to display...
Tom McFarlin
19 Jan 2017
Code
Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 4
In the final part of this series, we'll employ everything we've learned thus far by applying namespaces to our code and writing our own autoloader.
Tom McFarlin
17 Jan 2017
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 4
In this tutorial, we'll have a complete refactored solution that uses some intermediate object-oriented principles like inheritance. We'll also have a few...
Tom McFarlin
29 Dec 2016
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 3
In this tutorial, we'll begin implementing our Settings Messenger by adding support for errors and success messages as well as covering some points on security.
Tom McFarlin
22 Dec 2016
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2
We're going to be making a call to the custom hook that we'll define, and we'll wire that up on the server-side. We'll also start the groundwork for our...
Tom McFarlin
15 Dec 2016
Code
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 1
It's possible to implement a system that allows us to programmatically set our own custom messages, their type, and when and where to display them on the...
Tom McFarlin
8 Dec 2016
Code
Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 3
At this point in the series, we're ready to swap out our existing autoloader with the object-oriented based code. Note, however, that this will not be a...
Tom McFarlin
30 Nov 2016
Code
Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 2
In this tutorial, we're going to take a practical approach to our WordPress plugin by introducing object-oriented concepts learned from the previous tutorial...
Tom McFarlin
25 Nov 2016
Code
Object-Oriented Autoloading in WordPress, Part 1
In this follow-up series and starting with this post, we're going to be revisiting the concept of autoloaders from the perspective of object-oriented...
Tom McFarlin
18 Nov 2016
Code
Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 3
In this tutorial, we're going to take a break from writing code and look at what PHP namespaces and autoloaders are, how they work, and why they are...
Tom McFarlin
11 Nov 2016
Code
Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 2
In this series, we're taking a look at exactly what PHP namespaces are, why they are beneficial, and how to use them. But first, we're laying the foundation...
Tom McFarlin
2 Nov 2016
Code
Getting Started With the Twitter Info Widget
There are a number of fantastic tools available for WordPress-based sites and blogs available in CodeCanyon. In this video, we take a look at one that allows...
Tom McFarlin
27 Oct 2016
Code