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A site for WordPress developers by a WordPress developer. Here you’ll find tutorials, tips and how-to’s for developing for WordPress.

This is the site for you who want to learn and write code yourself, not just “install some plugin”.

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Most Popular Posts

How to Access and Parse Gutenberg Blocks with PHP

A detailed look into how to parse a post’s blocks using WordPress PHP functions for parsing, filtering and rendering specific blocks.

In-Depth Guide in Creating and Fetching Custom WP REST API Endpoints

This post will show how to create custom WordPress REST endpoints and different methods for performing requests to them. There will be examples in both PHP, jQuery and vanilla Javascript.

7 Things You Can Do Today to Improve SEO on Your WordPress Site

This is a checklist of 8 things you as a webmaster or owner of a WordPress site can do to improve SEO and search engine ranking in 2020.

WordPress Gutenberg

Start here for Gutenberg specific guides and tutorials. The new Javascript-based editor for WordPress is here to stay, and is planned to become an increasingly larger part of WordPress in the future.

If you, like me, are a PHP developer who understands it’s time to start learning React JS and Gutenberg, start here!

WordPress Gutenberg Developer’s Guide

Are you a WordPress developer who is ready to take the plunge and learn the new technologies in Gutenberg? Start learning with this detailed guide!

The Basics of Developing for WordPress Gutenberg for Beginners

This post aims to help you as a WordPress developer but Gutenberg beginner to understand the key concepts and basics to develop for Gutenberg.

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WordPress For Beginners

If you are just starting out with WordPress development I suggest looking into some of these posts!

Complete Guide in Installing a Web Server and WordPress on Localhost

How to install and set up a webserver application on your computer (both in Windows and MacOS), including how to solve the problems that may come with.

WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners

A 12 lesson tutorial series covering the basics of developing a WordPress theme from scratch. Perfect for beginners who want to become a theme developer!

Guide: All about Hooks in WordPress

In this guide for beginners we’ll learn what WordPress hooks and filters are, how they work and how to use them.

Guide: How to Query Posts in WordPress

In this guide we’ll look at two methods of querying posts in WordPress (get_posts and WP_Query), how to access each post and build arguments.

All about Adding Styles and Scripts in WordPress

This post goes into detail with code examples of how to add scripts and styles to WordPress the correct way, both files and outputting variables.

Create Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies in WordPress by Code

A guide in creating custom post types and custom taxonomies in WordPress by code. Covers arguments to use for minimum but sufficient creation.

Featured Plugin Customization

Guides and tutorials for some common WordPress plugins such as WooCommerce, GravityForms and Advanced Custom Fields. If you are looking to learn more about how to work with these plugins, look no further.

Guide: Customize WooCommerce Checkout Fields by Code

A guide in how to change, remove or reposition default checkout fields in WordPress WooCommerce, and how to add your own custom field, by code.

Complete Reference for Adding Advanced Custom Fields Groups and Fields by Code

A complete reference in how to nicely set up Advanced Custom Fields fields and groups by PHP code instead of pasting bloated code from ACF PHP export tool.

Complete Guide: How to Dynamically Populate Fields in Gravity Forms

A complete guide in how to pre-select or pre-fill in fields in a Gravity Forms form, and replace the choices in a dropdown, radio button or checkboxes.

Guide: Change Prices in WooCommerce by Code

This tutorial explains how to adjust the prices in your WordPress WooCommerce webshop using code. Examples include discount percentage or fixed sum.

Gravity Forms: Add Custom Inputs to Fields and Remote Post after Submission

A Gravity Forms tutorial about how to add a custom input to any field type, adding custom form settings, and remote submit form values to a third party.

Guide on How to Add Custom Fees to WooCommerce Checkout by Code

This guide shows you how to add a custom fee to the WooCommerce cart totals, and also add it depending on shipping location or payment method.