While developing my plugin, I came across many API of new WordPress 3. WordPress 3 really gives a new set of APIs for developers to work with. Okay, so coming straight to the point, there are many occasions where, you need to take input of comma separated values of IDs from the user for the backend of your plugin. While, we can use PHP’s simple explode method to convert the CSV into an array, but it relies extensively on the users...

This tutorial is about adding a “dynamic” login/logout and Site Admin button somewhere on your wordpress theme template. This is basically same as the Meta widget of wordpress. But in case if you don’t like all the lists given by the meta widget, and want to add only the Login Logout button and Site Admin button then this is how you do… #0: Plan where you want the Buttons: This depends entirely on you. It can be...

While developing my own WordPress Plugins, I had many occasions where I had to know the URL of the plugin. Especially while including some JavaScript or Stylesheets. Using a relative path is not a good solution for this. As many users have their own content folder. As of WordPress 2.8 it gives many functions to the developers to retrieve system path or URL whatever they want for their plugin. I prefer using the functions more than the...

If you have been using the famous Google XML Sitemap generator from arnebrachhold on a shared hosting, then you might have faced some memory issue. Practically this is the best Sitemap generator tool for wordpress. But the only problem it has is the huge amount of memory it requires. If you are on a dedicated hosting, then its all okay, but what if you are on a shared server? Personally I am hosting with a shared host, where I am allowed to...

Okay, so after quite a bit of wait, here is our First WordPress Plugin… We have named it, IntenseDebate XML Importer and what it does is, imports your Blogger Intense Debate comment to your WordPress blog. This is very useful if you are migrating your blog from Blogger to WordPress and want to keep your Intense Debate comments while migrating. Update- 13/8/2010: 20:00: We have released a version 1.0.5. I have fixed a major bug...

If you have tried searching our site, then you should have noticed that we actually use Google Custom Search by Adsense. The advantage is not only it gives more accurate search result, but also it shows your adsense ads on the search page, which helps you earning revenue out of your blog. Basically, Google Adsense for Search is a tool using which you can use Google’s Search feature to show search result on your website along with your...