Tom McFarlin

In this quick video, we'll see how we can take advantage of a third-party application in order to debug WordPress applications using IDEs that don't have...

Starting in this post, we're going to begin exploring the WordPress Post Meta API to see why it's useful, what we can do with it, and how to take advantage...

In this series, we're going to look at how to work with WordPress metadata using the native WordPress APIs. By the end of it, you should be familiar with...

When it comes to writing software, one of the things that we often hear and often talk about is quality. More specifically, we talk about building quality...

In this introductory series for how to achieve a number of tasks in WordPress, we've talked about themes and plugins and how to install our own web server....

In this article, we're going to cover each of the three main pieces of software that need to be installed, and then we'll cover the various ways they can be...

WordPress plugins add functionality to an existing site. That is, they introduce something new that you can do with your site. In this tutorial, we'll take a...

If you're interested in building a website with WordPress, then it stands to reason that you should have a working definition of what a WordPress theme...

In the last post, we reviewed some advanced ways to incorporate the WordPress Ajax API into our projects using procedural programming. In this post, we're...

I want to revisit the concept of Ajax in WordPress so you see some of the new APIs and how to employ them in your day-to-day work or how to refactor some of...

What's required to become an instructor for an established, educational network like Envato? For the first time in over a year, we're looking to add more...

As frustrating as it can be to learn something new, hit a roadblock and then have to repeat it a little bit further down the line, the silver lining is that...