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Custom WordPress Administration Pages

September 9, 2016 / Tom

Creating custom WordPress administration pages isn’t always necessary if you’re going to use something like the Settings API. But if you’re working on a feature for a plugin or something that extends WordPress core in a way that requires more flexibility, it’s something that may be useful.

Custom WordPress Administration Pages

In some respects, it gives you more control, but you may also need to work on writing your system for displaying messages in the administration area, handling sanitization and validation, and so on.

It’s a lot to consider, and there’s a variety of use cases. In my latest series on Envato, I begin walking through some of the foundational requirements for working on custom WordPress administration pages.

More on Working with CSV Files in WordPress

September 8, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

CSV files are a topic that I’ve previously discussed on this blog. But one of the things that come with sharing information in this format over time is that new information, strategies, or techniques can be learned.

CSV Files in WordPress

This is one of the challenges of others finding old content, isn’t it? But I digress on that.

For those who haven’t read my previous entries, you can see some of them here:

And it’s not that those are irrelevant. I might change a few things here and there, but that’s the purpose of this post. Instead, I want to build on some of the things mentioned above.

After all, working with CSV files in web applications is nothing new, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. So why not share some additional strategies that I’ve found useful in making my projects a bit more robust (and see what you have to add to it in the comments :).

Uploading Files to a Custom Directory in WordPress

September 7, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

As it relates to uploading files in WordPress, the CMS offers some convenient API functions that make it easy for developers.

The standard uploads directory in a WordPress installation.

Some of these functions include:

These functions, though, often require us to limit our files to the uploads directory. And many times, that’s great. It gives us a single place to store our files and it gives us one place to retrieve our files when needed.

But if you’re working on a web application or even an advanced plugin, this isn’t always the ideal situation. For example, let’s say that you have a plugin in which you want to have your own uploads directory, and that’s where you want to store your files.

What do you do in that case?

Yet Another Blog (Gotta Go Your Own Way)

September 6, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

This blog has been discontinued and you can read more about it in this post.

The idea of starting another blog seems daunting especially when I try to write for this one on a daily basis. But to say that I enjoy writing is a bit of an understatement.

The other caveat is that I try to be pretty focused on the type of material that I write about on this site. I’ve made some mistakes with this blog, sure, and I’m working on rectifying that especially over this next month.

Several things have come from this blog, though. For example, I get tweets, emails, and other forms of [sometimes creepy but maybe just kidding] messages about how I run my business, how I manage my time, what applications, sites, services, and so on that I recommend.

All of those topics are fun to talk about, but they don’t fit in with the whole idea of “a perspective on professional WordPress development.”

So what am I supposed to do when there’s more that I’d like to write about but don’t have a place to do it?

Updating Atom and the WordPress Coding Standards

September 5, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

For those who have read my Atom and WordPress Coding Standards post, then you should have everything you need when it comes to setting up the editor to evaluate your code with the WordPress Coding Standards.

Recently, though, the 0.10.0 release of the coding standards were published on GitHub, and it brings a lot of changes.

Atom and the WordPress Coding Standards

If you’re looking to begin upgrading to this new change, there’re a few caveats that you may experience when working with Atom and the WordPress Coding Standards.

They’re easy to address, though.

Tom McFarlin

Custom WordPress Administration Pages

More on Working with CSV Files in WordPress

Uploading Files to a Custom Directory in WordPress

Yet Another Blog (Gotta Go Your Own Way)

Updating Atom and the WordPress Coding Standards