How to create an Email Opt in Box for your Downloads – Part 2
So you’re giving away free material from your site. And now you need a way to capture your users’ information. An Opt in box may be the perfect solution for you. From my previous post, we already have...
View ArticleLet’s create a wrapper for the Captcha helper in Codeigniter
I needed to create a couple of forms for my latest project using the Codeigniter (CI) framework. For those who have worked with CI before, it has many neat classes built in – including Captcha. Captcha...
View ArticleBuilding a user registration system – Part 1: The New User Form
Almost every website will have some form of public and restricted area. WordPress for instance, has the admin side where you can create posts, manage plugins, install themes etc. For this tutorial, we...
View ArticleBuilding a user registration system – Part 2: The Set Password and Login Forms
So let’s continue with our registration system. We left off at the point where we have the registration page setup. So let’s try it out and fill in some information. Add your name and an email address....
View ArticleBuilding a user registration system – Part 3: The Password Reset Form
So now we’ve come to the last part of this series. We need a way to let users back in when they forget their passwords. So we’re going to need a form, a mechanism to notify them with a unique token, as...
View ArticleLet’s make a WordPress Widget that displays our Custom Post Types
So I had a question from one my readers: “How can I add a Latest Listing widget in the sidebar“, which really translates to “How do we create a WordPress Widget?” Well, a widget that pulls our Custom...
View ArticleShow number of posts out of total records in WordPress
From time to time, I just look at my blogs and see what I can add to it to make it more appealing to the user. I’ve always admired those sites that tell you what number of posts a certain category has,...
View ArticleGet all posts from WordPress REST API
As you may know, WP REST API has a limit of 100 records per call. This is what it says in the API Docs: Now this may be enough for some people, but what if you need to get ALL of them. Here are two...
View ArticleHow to create an Accordion Block using React and WordPress’ Block API
I was tasked with creating a custom component for our public website which runs on WordPress. Most commonly known as an “Accordion“, it is a section of a page where you can have a title and an...
View ArticleLaracasts.com: a gold mine of content for Web Developers
I’ve been a Software Engineer for many years. And for the past few, JavaScript has been emerging with newer, better and shinier things. But like many others, I’ve been having a little bit of...
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