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As you continue writing for WordPress more and more, the level of difficulty and complexity of your plugins will eventually reach far beyond the simple back-end data manipulation, as demonstrated in our beginner’s article. In this installment we’ll cover in-depth: database interaction, Admin Widgets, and Sidebar Widgets. Today’s example will be a custom built “Most Popular by Views” plugin, which creates an admin area widget for us to view, and a sidebar widget for visitors to see.

We sit down for another installment in FS Interviews, this time with Jake Mize, a profesional web designer and a pretty damn good one at that. We're going to talk about his favorite projects, go to software and languages, and getting a degree for web work.

WordPress is the largest blogging platform available on the internet today; and with the official release of version three just around the corner, it’s only going to get bigger. As such, over the next few self-contained tuts, we’re going to learn the ins and outs of WordPress plugin development, starting with the creation of our first simple plugin, “Simple Optimization.”

In our next installment of FS Interviews, we grab a coffee and sit down with Jonathan Snook and discuss CSS, book writing, problem solving, and just how he came about being a web developer.

For this sit-down of "FS Interviews", we're glad to have with us one of the most well-known front-end developers, Chris Coyier. We'll discuss primary languages, projects, community management, books, debugging, and notoriety.

A couple of days ago I showed you how to make a category menu. In this post I'm going to show you how to create an even more advanced version of the same function, that not only has all the same features, but also includes the ability to be sorted into a different order.

One of the most common features on any blog or website is category highlighting showing you which category you're in or the page is in. WordPress, by default, does not have a function to do this. Thus it's up to us developers to write our own custom functions to do this, and that's exactly what's I'm going to be teaching you in this tutorial.

With an ever increasing amount of content building on your WordPress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category.

This is a Nettuts +Tut.

While reading though some twitter updates this morning, I stumbled across one that was asking if anyone knew a way to exclude a specific category in WordPress from the loop, unless it was certian page template. After a quick minute of thinking, I came up with this small function that will do just that.

so last weekend I finally got around to coding my personal site over at Fire-G.com and decided to screen-capture it all to show you guys!

I would have posted this sooner, but it took 20 hours for my 7.5 hour video to render. Then it took another 6 hours to render after I sped it up.