Dan Harper

When displaying posts in your WordPress theme, you usually have the same chunk of code in multiple places throughout your theme, and it usually never changes.
For example, you typically have the same code in index.php, archive.php, search.php etc. and even the single.php page contains very similar code.

That doesn’t make any sense at all. A better approach is to include that code in one file, and reference it from there: Don’t Repeat Yourself.

In this short tutorial, we’ll be adding buttons to our WordPress theme to allow visitors to easily submit the current article to social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter and Facebook.

Ruby is rapidly becoming the preferred programming language for many developers. With that said, let’s look at some of the best tutorials, videos and books to learn Ruby and Rails.

In this two-part series, we’ll be creating a basic ‘Jobs Board’, similar to “FreelanceSwitch Jobs” and “Smashing Jobs”, using the CodeIgniter PHP framework.

Throughout this six-part nettuts+ beginner-to-master series, we’ll be using the advanced features of WordPress to create our own portfolio & blog, complete with an options page, multiple styles and support for the new WordPress 2.7 features.

Many multi-author blogs have an ‘About This Author’ section attached to the bottom of each post – containing a link to the author’s site and a short Bio about them. In this post, we’ll be creating this, and also an ‘Authors Archive’ page just like the one at NETTUTS.

Including a Theme Options page for your theme is one of the best ways to increase ease-of-use for managing a complex theme. However, a few quick Google searches later and most people give up. Such a great inclusion for theme design appears to have such little documentation, that it appears to be one of those heavily guarded secrets which only the crème de la crème of designers hold the key to.

GamePress is a “Gaming News & Reviews” theme for WordPress and currently one of the most popular themes at ThemeForest. It is the most advanced theme I’ve created so far, and really pushes what the WordPress engine can do!
In this series we look at how some of the functions of this theme were created.

In this tutorial, we will be creating a basic ‘Shoutbox’ system with PHP. Aimed at beginners to PHP development, this allows you to get your feet wet working with databases before moving on to some of the more advanced PHP tutorials here at NETTUTS.

WordPress is still regarded by many as just a blogging platform, even though it’s capable of much, much more! The flexibility offered by the WordPress engine is phenomenal – being able to publish anything from a basic blog to a forum, from a web showcase to a corporate CMS site! Here we take a look at some of the great ways WordPress has been used so far.

This is part of a series of articles covering the basics of installing and using WordPress aimed at new-comers to WordPress and to CMS usage also. This series also serves as a guide for ThemeForest users who are new to WordPress.

Creating tabbed interfaces suddenly becomes a piece-of-cake when using the Tabs function in the jQuery UI library. It can be utilized to create completely unique interfaces without having to be a coding God – using only one line of code!

WordPress is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Here, we’ll be learning how to create a featured and “latest posts” section – easily a ‘must-have’ for all good News/Magazine themes. We’ll also go over using the ‘Custom Fields’ to their fullest potential.