How to Create a FAQ Page with WordPress and Custom Post Types

by Sumeet Chawla
A FAQ page is created specifically for the viewers/customers, and contains general questions and their respective answers about a particular product or service. This tutorial details the process of creating a dedicated FAQ section in the WordPress backend with custom post types, as well as how to spice up the actual page a bit by using jQuery and CSS.

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Create a Responsive Slider Plugin With FlexSlider for WordPress

by Joseph Casabona
While there is a wealth of slider plugins out there (my current favorite is the one for Nivo Slider), there is not one for FlexSlider, a slider that has keyboard shortcuts and works with swipe on touch screens. In this tutorial, we’ll create that plugin!

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How To Create Tabs Using jQuery in WordPress

by Justin Tadlock
Tabbed sidebar elements are in. Why bother making users scroll down the page, when they can simply click a tab to quickly access various parts of your site?
This tutorial is primarily based off WordPress, but can easily be ported anywhere else.

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Displaying WordPress Site Data Via jQuery Charts

by Elvin Hajiyev
In this tutorial we will use the jQuery Charts Plotting plugin, JQplot, to create a new WordPress plugin which can display some of your blog’s traffic, popular categories, and more with some beautiful visual charts.

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Creating a Tabbed Widget for Custom Post Types

by Brian McCulloh
This tutorial offers one solution by showing you how to create a custom, tabbed widget that grabs your latest articles from multiple custom post types, and as a bonus, shows you how to display star ratings next to each post!

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Using jQuery to liven up your WordPress login

by Mark B
In tutorial article, I’m going to show a really quick method of simplifying the clients login process using a jQuery lightbox.

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Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery

by Philo Hermans
When it comes to simpler user experience, having your form validation happen instantly on the same page is a lot cleaner than reloading pages and possibly losing some form content. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.

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Creating Your Own Image Gallery Page Template in WordPress

by Andres Hermosilla
I will show you how easy it is to create a gallery template page that you could easily tweak and modify for future themes or versions.

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HOW TO: Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress Posts

by Dre Armeda
This post will give you a quick run down of how to easily add a simple and easily customizable carousel with WordPress posts from a specified category.

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WordPress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI

by Harley
I just love the sidebar on the Apple Startpage, and wanted to use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to achieve this! As if that’s not enough for me, I want to be able to show and hide it at my pleasure as well. I’m gonna show you how!

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Display a Random Post (with AJAX Refresh)

by Chris Coyier
I think you’ll be surprised at how ridiculously easy this is. We are going to leverage some serious smartness from both WordPress and from the JavaScript library jQuery.

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Quick Tip: Making a Fancy WordPress Register Form from Scratch

by Ivor Padilla
In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of making a beautiful “Register” form, using Fancybox, jQuery, and, of course, WordPress. As you’ll find, the process is really quite simple.

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WordPress & jQuery Contact Form without a Plugin

by Trevor Davis
In this tutorial, I am going to show how to use a custom page template to create a contact form in WordPress without a plugin.

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Getting Loopy – Ajax Powered Loops with jQuery and WordPress

by Dennis Baskin
In this tutorial, we give you a starting point for creating AJAX interaction in your blog. We follow a step by step process, showing you how to load posts based on the viewers page scroll.

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Implement a Nice & Clean jQuery Sliding Panel in WordPress 2.7+

by Jeeremie
we will see how to implement the Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel built with jQuery in WordPress.

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Create a Settings Page For Your WordPress Theme

by Jarkko Laine
Luckily, creating a settings page for your theme in WordPress is not very hard, and after reading this tutorial, you will be able to create one in no time!

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• 6 different Galleries
• No plugins needed whatsoever, everything is included within the theme
• Color picker options for any number of gorgeous color settings
• Unqiue Sidebars for each page/category possible
• Code built with SEO best practice in mind

• Horizontal Portfolio slider with captions and mouse scroll
• Unlimited Portfolios
• Contact form template validated and working mailer
• Internationalized
• Populate Menu social icon links using Widget

• Home slides with custom text and links
• Masonry layout for blog and portfolio pages
• Custom elements
• Extensive documentation
• FREE Bonus you’ll get the award winning Visual Composer plugin

• HTML5 + CSS Technology
• Automatic Image Sizing
• Search Engine Optimization
• Lots of Shortcodes
• Includes .mo/.po for translations

• Choose Your Own Colors With Color Picker
• 3 Custom Widgets
• Unlimited Portfolio Categories/Pages
• Fullwidth Blog Template + Float Left Thumbnail Template
• Easily Change Lightbox Theme From Within Admin Panel

• Fullscreen Slideshow
• Awesome Gallery Manager
• Integrated ‘Like’ buttons
• Multiple Blogs
• Unlimited Sidebars

• Full Crawlable AJAX
• Blog, portfolio and simple page/single layouts – 13 layouts
• Integrated Facebook comment
• Powerful shortcodes
• Integrated Masonry jQuery plugin

• Built-in Font Manager. You can upload your own font
• Password protected gallery support
• Styled typography and flexible page columns
• Unlimited sidebar. Create and select sidebar for each of your page!
• Unobtrusive jQuery powered effects

• Full Screen Web Application like Interface
• Unique Background Switcher
• Post Images Lightbox
• Built-in Unlimited Sidebars
• 100% Multilingual & Translation Support

• Contact Form Builder
• SEO Optimized
• Google Font Integration
• Loads of Shortcode
• Unbranded Admin Panel

Creating your first WordPress child theme

by Cameron Chapman
For this tutorial, we’ll be creating a child theme based on the newest WordPress default theme, Twenty Eleven. We’ll also be using some handy plugins and other tricks to make it even easier to create a child theme.

How to Make a Unique Header for WordPress

by Tara Hornor
It’s easy enough to use the built-​​in tools in WordPress to modify CSS and sidebars, but arguably the most important identifier for your site is the header. So how do you find this, create your own, and get it in place? In this article we will discuss how to do all three of these tasks.

How To Create A WordPress Author’s Page Template

by Kevin Muldoon
If you run a multi-author website, you may want to consider adding an author template to your website. Author templates help present more information about writers and make it easier for visitors to find other articles the author have written. In this post we will be breaking the author template down and showing you how you can improve it.

How to Build an E-Commerce Website Using WordPress: Part 1

by Soumitra Chakraborty
Today we will be creating a simple but powerful e-commerce site using one of the most popular WordPress plugins called WP e-Commerce. Using this plugin we will be creating a website which sells holiday gifts!

Building Dynamic Taxonomy Pages With WordPress

by Marc Thomas
This tutorial will show you how to setup your taxonomy, build a template for it and then implement a dynamic generation of content and links to the artist in your taxonomy elsewhere on the web.

Create A Product Listing With Infinite Categories Using Custom Post Types

by Barry Walsh
In today’s tutorial we’re going to leverage the power of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom loops to create a dynamic products listing.

Create A WordPress Archives Template for Your Theme

by Kevin Muldoon
An archives page is great way of linking to all of your important archives such as monthly archives and category archives on one dedicated page. It’s a great alternative to simply linking to your older posts in your sidebar and footer. Surprisingly, a lot of themes out there don’t include one by default… so today, we’re going to show you a quick way of building one from scratch.

Getting Started with AJAX & WordPress Pagination

by Soumitra Chakraborty
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a web technology that allows a web page to dynamically update content without reloading the page within the browser. The website becomes more interactive and responsive with the use of this technology. Ajax is supported by almost all the visual web browsers… so today, we’ll show you how to setup some custom WordPress Pagination magic using AJAX.

10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

by Avinash Zala M
Today, we’ll be looking at how to optimize your site to run as fast as it possibly can. So, without further adieu, here are 10 quick tips for optimizing your WordPress site!

11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

by Avinash Zala M
This section will going to cover the tips related to securing your WordPress site. Tips includes protecting files, login restriction, WordPress admin restriction, database protection, etc.

WordPress Theme Development Training Wheels: Day Two

by Nur Ahmad Furlong
After a short break since our first post in this series, we’re back to take things a little further. So far we’ve only just made our HTML template ready for activation as a theme, and made some minor changes to integrate a few WordPress functions which replace certain Hard Coded HTML contents. I hope you’ve been practicing your WP pedaling!

Reusing Template Files

by Bill Erickson
WordPress’ built-in template hierarchy is very useful for reusing template files on standard websites. If you have something you want used for all category archives, use category.php. If you want a template file to be used on all archives (category, tag, search…), use archive.php.

How To Create Custom WordPress Cron Intervals

by Alex – Viper007Bond
Here’s how to have WordPress code execute on a different schedule than the default intervals of hourly, twicedaily, and daily.

How To Remove (Or Change) “Private” Or “Protected” From WordPress Post Titles

by Alex – Viper007Bond
If you make a post private in WordPress, the post’s title with be prefixed with “Private”. The same will happen if you password protect the post, although it will be prefixed with “Protected”.

Everything we know about the newly released WordPress 3.3

by Ryan Imel
With a new version of WordPress out and about, one might wonder just what’s new under the hood. Wonder no longer dear friend, because in this post I’m going to walk you through everything about WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” that we’re aware of. Before you know it you’ll be the coolest kid on your block.

How I built a micro-site within a WordPress theme (for The WPCandy Quarterly)

by Ryan Imel
In this post you can expect a smattering of code snippets, a good deal of me explaining my weird website preferences, and of course some bouncing between functions.php files and functionality plugins.

Boost Your Likes by Creating a Facebook Giveaway Using WordPress

by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how you can boost your likes by creating a facebook giveaway campaign using WordPress. This will get very interesting in terms of results, so read along.

What, Why, and How-To’s of Creating a Site-Specific WordPress Plugin

by WPBeginner
So you are probably wondering what a site-specific plugin is, why you need it, and how you can have it for your WordPress site. That is exactly what we plan to share in this article, so keep on reading.

Case Study: Behind the Scenes Look of List25 – Plugins and Hacks

by WPBeginner
In this article, we will take you behind the scenes of List25 and show you the plugins and cool hacks that we are using to power that site. Perhaps reading this article will give you some feature ideas for your own site.

How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure

by Joost de Valk
Quite often I give people the advice to change their WordPress permalink structure, this post details the why and, more importantly: how to make such a change without losing the traffic that you already have.

Daily Tip: How to Insert Shortcodes into a WordPress Theme

by Joe
Shortcodes, which many plugins take advantage of, are an easy and quick way to insert special kinds of content into your posts or pages.

How to Create a Unique WordPress Category Archive Page

by Joe
In WordPress, if you would like make your category archives different from each other (for example, giving them different styles or including different types of information on each), then it’s pretty easily done. You will only need to make a new category template file for the categories you would like to change.

Easily Style WordPress Posts According to Tag

by Joe
But what if you had non-sticky posts in various categories that you wanted to stand out?
The solution is to add a special tag to the post, and then style all posts with that tag.

Spice Up Your WordPress Site by Giving Categories their Own Icons

by Joe
One way to liven up your site a little and give it a little extra flair is to associate different icons with different categories. Or, you can do it for only one or two categories to really mark those off as different.

[Tutorial] How to Add Authors’ Images to your WordPress Blog

by Joe
Have you ever wished you could display the photos of your site’s authors (i.e. their avatars) in a more creative way, such as showing the author’s avatar right beside the headline of each post?

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners: Creating & Managing User Profiles

by Tom Ewer
All WordPress sites must have at least one user, who is invariably the owner of the site. If you are new to WordPress, you will want to take a moment to customize your user profile, as the information within may be seen by your site’s readers.

How to Use WordPress Category and Tag Base to Improve Your SEO

by Joe
These two boxes are your “Category base” and your “Tag base,” which can be found on your Permalinks page (Settings >> Permalinks), that many people ignore; however, taking a few seconds to fill these boxes in may just help your SEO efforts.

Stop Your Clients From Deactivating Important WordPress Plugins

by Tim Gregg
There’s nothing worse than a client stumbling through their WordPress installation and messing with things they don’t understand.

How to Move Multiple WordPress Posts to a Subcategory with Bulk Actions

by Joe
Many people have the situation of starting a site, setting up categories, and then discovering down the road that one of their categories gets a lot more content than the others. When this happens, it can get difficult to navigate, and it can be hard for users to find just what they’re looking for.
The answer to this problem is pretty simple—just create subcategories (sometimes called “child” categories). But there’s an easy way to solve it.

Another 5 Things Your WordPress Site Doesn’t Need

by Tim Gregg
So here we go with yet another 5 things that you can remove from WordPress, all in the name of making your site faster, simpler and more secure.

Understanding Dynamic WordPress links

by Brady Nord
When a developer is transitioning from basic HTML website development to using a framework like WordPress these are important principles to understand. Here is a list of my most commonly used URL functions with example usages.

Displaying Theme Data with WordPress

by Jeff Starr
A cool trick you can do with WordPress is display information directly from your theme’s style.css stylesheet. I recently used this on a site where the theme’s version number is used throughout the template to keep things current and consistent.

The Complete Guide to Branding Your WordPress Website

by Noumann
In this post we will discuss a few things that you can do to rebrand your WordPress based website and make it your own.

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Perfect WordPress Plugins

by Noumann
So, how do you spend less time troubleshooting plugins? The most wonderful thing about an open source development environment is that it puts responsibility not only on developers but also on users by providing them choices to make smart decisions. In this post we will discuss these choices to find out how we can choose better plugins.

Make Your WordPress Titles SEO Friendly

by Kevin Muldoon
The general consensus is that you should use an H1 tag for your logo or site title on your home page but on posts and pages you should ensure that the page or post title is using an H1 tag.

How To List All WordPress Posts From A Category On One Page Or Post

by Kevin Moldoon
You can either create custom templates for each category or you can use a plugin. In this post I am going to show you how you can do both.

WordPress hook: Automatically add a Google+ button to your posts

by SpyreStudios
Today, I’m going to show you a simple piece of code to automatically add a Google+ button to your posts.

Display number of Facebook fans in full text on your WordPress blog

by WPSnippets
Today’s recipe will help you to get your Facebook fan count, in full text!

Super useful WordPress hacks and snippets

by Jean-Baptiste Jung
For one of my last posts of the year, I have decided to share with you a list of the most exiting, useful and awesome WordPress hacks and code snippets to make your blogger life easier. Have a great read, and happy coding!

How to Add Custom Image Sizes to WordPress Uploader

by Jean Galea
A new feature in WordPress 3.3 that I’m digging is the image_size_names_choose filter, which enables us to add new image sizes to the media upload/insert interface.
Check out the code below and the resulting screen:

A Guide to HTML Post Comments in WordPress

by Jean Galea
Your blog readers can post comments with HTML tags. For their convenience, you can display a list of all allowed HTML tags in the comments form using the following PHP code in functions.php:

PayPal File Download WordPress Plugin

PayPal File Download for WordPress is the easiest way to sell digital content to your visitors. Easily sell and automatically deliver e-books, PDFs, ZIPs, and any other kind of file to your customers—with built in IPN , email delivery, and download expiry.

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PayPal Payment Terminal WordPress

Start accepting paypal payments on your wordpress site in 2 minutes! This script would be ideal for taking donations/contributions on your blog, or accepting payments from your clients or receiving payments for pre-defined services!

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Credit Card Payments WordPress

This script allows you to have a quick & easy payment terminal for your clients to pay with major credit cards (Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover) on your WORDPRESS website without leaving it. Installation and configuration of the script takes less than 5 minutes (however you do need to have SSL and one of 4 merchant accounts (PayPal, OptimalPayments, Moneris US or Moneris Canada, Authorize.net).

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WPdeposit

This deposit wordpress plugin is similar to the deposit they use here on themeforest (and other envato sites).

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WP e-Commerce

WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online.

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WooCommerce

Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online store. Delivering enterprise-level quality & features whilst backed by a name you can trust.

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WordPress eCommerce – MarketPress

MarketPress is the easiest to use, best designed and most powerful ecommerce / shopping cart plugin available for WordPress today.

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eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.

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WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items. It can be easily integrated with the NextGen Photo Gallery plugin too.

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TheCartPress, eCommerce Shopping Cart

The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin. Use it as shopping cart, catalog or framework.
You can extend its functionality with plugins and themes to customize your store exactly in same way that you do with WordPress. It is compatible with many existing plugins in the WordPress repository.

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Ecwid Shopping Cart

Ecwid is a free full-featured shopping cart and an e-commerce solution that can easily be added to any blog or Facebook profile. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t.
“Ecwid” stands for “ecommerce widgets”.

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wpStoreCart

wpStoreCart is a free, open source, and full featured e-commerce platform built atop of WordPress. It is easy to use, lightweight, heavily supported and constantly updated with new features.

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Jigoshop

Set up shop in minutes with physical and downloadable products or even services. Jigoshop provides you with the features necessary to set up an eCommerce web site lickety-split.
With the option to create a multitude of product types and apply detailed attributes customers can easily refine your catalog, ensuring they find what they’re looking for in just a couple of clicks.

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Zingiri Web Shop

Zingiri Web Shop is a WordPress plugin that turns a great content management system into a fantastic e-commerce solution.

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YAK for WordPress

YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries (in other words, posts), so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categorisation, and provides customisable purchase options — cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net and MiGS (Mastercard Internet Gateway Service, add-on only).

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Welcart e-Commerce

Welcart is a program made in Japan, which assists you to build e-commerce system on WordPress.
It has not only simple shopping cart function but also other functions necessary to run your store, such as “Order management function” and “membership function”. Welcart corresponds to various types of WordPress template. 8 widgets included in the program will help your blog to become an online shop.

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WordPress Ultra Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

WordPress Ultra Simple Paypal Shopping Cart allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items. You can also add a form between the cart validation and the paypal submit if you choose a 3 step process.

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WP Auctions

WP Auctions is a revolutionary plugin which allows you to host auctions on your blog or website and to sell anything, completely fee free! It uses an attractive AJAX powered popup for optimum user experience and lets you run personal auctions on your site.

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DukaPress

DukaPress is open source software that can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. DukaPress is built on top of WordPress, a world class content management system. DukaPress is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable.

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Cart66 Lite

Cart66 is a simple to use yet powerful ecommerce plugin for WordPress. With features:

• Sell digital products with Amazon S3 integration
• Sell physical products
• Sell services
• Manage orders
• Promotions
• Tax by state (United States and Canada), zip code, or all orders
• And more

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1. TrustedBusiness.com

The one example of a business page that use TrustedBusiness.com

TrustedBusiness.com may be one of the coolest ways to showcase the trust you have earned from clients. This service is totally free, and the best thing about it is that you can create a really cool looking page that will let your prospective customers know how much others trust your business. It would also be a great way to get new clients because you will be able to showcase the trust your current and past clients have had with your service/product. As if that was not enough, you get awesome perks as more people say that they trust you. To get started read Small Business University’s Guide to TrustedBusiness.com.

2. Profiles on Freelancing Sites

If you participate on freelancing sites such elance.com or freelancer.com, you should use your personal profile to show your ratings and testimonials that you have received. A few of your clients will be familiar with these sites will value your ratings, however, if your potential clients don’t know about these sites, then you definitely need a better way to showcase your trust.

3. Facebook Page

Creating a Facebook page and sharing it with your past clients and potential buyers is a superb idea. There, you will be able to share updates concerning your business and have a chance to engage with your clients directly.

4. Better Business Bureau (BBB)

That is another popular technique to gain trust which is usually not applicable to freelancers. This can be more appropriate for businesses that have a physical location. Also, BBB certification demands that you pay a yearly fee to keep your certification.

5. Yelp Page

This is again a service more fitted for businesses with a physical location. In the event you have a Yelp page, make sure you are monitoring it and taking notes of peoples feedback. Keep improving your services according to the feedback and you will slowly earn the trust of the customers.