WordPress Plugins WordPress plugins are ways to extend and add to the functionality that already exists in WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean and lightweight, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins then offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. In this post, we are presenting a fresh collection of WordPress plugins which allow designers and developers to bring in some additional functionality into their...
Shortcode is quite useful. With the shortcodes, we can insert almost everything we need to our pages and posts. As people can only find shortcodes in premium WordPress themes, a lot of WordPress users do not know what they are or how to use them when they purchase a new theme. So, bearing this in mind, we write this article to show how to create a homepage with shortcode. This article will go through some common sections in the...
What Are Shortcodes? Shortcodes are a convenient method that WordPress implements which provides a way to generate dynamic and often complex functionality from very little input. While developers often create functionality to provide additional features for a website; they are executed by calling PHP code. Users however, are often not developers, and as such having them interact directly with PHP is not recommended. A solution to this is for developers to create custom shortcodes. Shortcodes provide a level of...
Creating shortcodes for use in wordpress themes is fairly straightforward. Shortcodes are written by providing a handler function. Shortcode handlers are broadly similar to WordPress filters: they accept parameters (attributes) and return a result (the shortcode output). Shortcode names should be all lowercase and use all letters, but numbers and underscores should work fine too. Be wary of using hyphens (dashes), you’ll be better off not using them. The add_shortcode function is used to register a shortcode handler. It...
