The new Theme Customizer introduced with WordPress 3.4 brought with it the ability for users to easily modify the look and layout of their website’s theme. For advanced features to be modified, the theme customization API must be integrated into the theme settings. This advanced tutorial will cover the basics of what the Theme Customizer can do and how theme developers can integrate it into their WordPress themes. You’ll Need There......

Welcome! This is an advanced WordPress tutorial on how to customize WordPress feeds. If you're not quite sure what feeds are or need to know more about them before reading this more advanced tutorial on WordPress feeds, please read my first tutorial regarding WordPress feeds called Understanding WordPress Feeds. I will not explain the basics of feeds in this tutorial, so if you have any questions about what they......

In this WordPress tutorial I intent to shed some light on Feeds and their relationship with WordPress. Feeds are a unique feature that many bloggers do not understand and therefore do not take advantage of. Feeds are viewed by about one out of four internet users. FeedBurner, a popular feed reader website, reported that over 65 million users signed up to read RSS feeds through their service in 2010......

This is an advanced WordPress tutorial on how to use custom taxonomies to better categorize and distribute content throughout a WordPress blog or website. If you are not sure what taxonomies are or don't know how to use the three default taxonomies in WordPress, then be sure to read my first tutorial on “Understanding Taxonomies in WordPress”. That is a must before attempting this more advanced tutorial on custom......

The dictionary definition of taxonomy says that taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. Likewise, in WordPress, taxonomies have to do with the way you use classifications in your blog or website. Another dictionary definition of taxonomy that fits a little better with how WordPress uses taxonomies says that taxonomy is the division of content into organized groups or categories. I often think that the reason people get......

WordPress is great, but let's face it - most good plugins are born out of a need to do something WordPress doesn't do out of the box. If you're a WordPress developer, you work with all kinds of websites big and small. Each have their own share of issues, whether it's a new site from the ground up, a redesign, or a new functionality or break/fix assignment. I......

This WordPress tutorial is a semi-advanced tutorial that requires some server administration skills and basic WordPress installation skills. I do my best to describe the process in simple terms so that almost everyone should be able to follow along and establish a WordPress blog in the cloud without much trouble. With the technique described in this tutorial, you will be able to host a free blog using WordPress on......

Learning to customize a WordPress blog can be intimidating at first. The first thing you need to understand in order to be able to effectively customize any WordPress blog is the file structure of a WordPress installation and the PHP functions on the server side that make up the HTML content visitors see when visiting your blog. This tutorial is a precursor to customizing inherent WordPress PHP functions and......

One of the biggest problems with fonts is that if the person visiting your site doesn’t have them installed on their local machine, they won’t see them. This can cause issues because you never know what font it might get replaced with and what it could look like for each visitor. In this tutorial we will show you a great solution to using custom fonts on a WordPress site.......

WordPress image captions are quite plain by default. They consist of a single text font, size and white background that often doesn't match the active WordPress theme at all. Because the captions are somewhat ugly, a lot of blogs use an external plugin to handle caption text or just don't use captions at all. It's quite unfortunate that a lot of writers and editors choose not to use captions, because they......