Recently, I wanted to move several of my existing WordPress blogs into a single WordPress multi-site setup. After doing so, I realized that all of my image links were broken because WordPress multi-site has a different organization for their media files. In particular, images no longer reside in the wp-content/uploads directory, but rather in the…..
The add_menu_page and add_submenu_page functions are used to add menu and submenu items to our WordPress dashboard. For example, in the screen-shot below, we have added a new Shiba Themes menu. It contains the submenus Shiba Themes, Add New, and Theme Options. Here we consider some common tasks that we may want to perform using…..
WordPress custom taxonomies are useful for grouping wordpress posts and custom post types. For example, tags and categories are standard taxonomies provided by WordPress to group WordPress objects. By creating our own custom taxonomies, we can creating our own groupings of posts and custom post types. WordPress also provides a standard user interface for managing…..
The WordPress custom taxonomy system allows you to create your own grouping of WordPress objects (e.g. posts, pages, and custom post types). Tags and categories, for example, are taxonomy objects that are native to the WordPress system. With the custom taxonomy framework, you can create your own tags and categories. In the article Custom Post…..
WordPress multisite functionality is now integrated into WordPress 3.0. Currently, we must go through a non-trivial process to turn on multisite capability. However, there are already plugins that try to automate this process in one-click. As this process becomes easier and more streamlined, the multisite capability will likely see wider adoption. Here, we consider how…..
The Find Posts dialog box can be a very useful feature to add to your plugin. For example, when we attach images to posts (from the Media >> Library menu) we use the Find Posts dialog box to search for our target objects. In the dialog box above, we can search for post and page…..
In Custom Post Type Permalinks – Part 1 we considered how to set different permalink options from the register_post_type function call. Here, we focus on how to create our own permalink structures. With the register_post_type function, we can easily set our custom post type permalink structure to look like this (assuming custom post type =…..
Custom post types is a very powerful feature in WordPress 3.0. With custom post types you can easily create post-like objects and automatically have menus, metaboxes, icons, permalinks, and much more added without having to code any of it yourself. Here we consider custom post type permalinks – how to set it, what the different…..
Custom post types is a new and powerful feature in WordPress 3.0. Here, we consider how to add metaboxes to the new custom post type user interface. There are three general classes of metaboxes that we may add to our custom post type screen – Built-in metaboxes – These metaboxes are built-in to custom post…..
After we create a custom post type, we get a new menu item on our dashboard with the default post icon. We also get that same default icon when we go into the Edit and Add New screens of our new custom post type. Here, we consider how to set our custom post type icons…..
