My WordPress Developer Blog

Although WordPress is extremely well made and easy to use, it get’s a little bit difficult to remember all of the WordPress functions and template tags when you are first trying to learn some of the advanced template functionalities of WordPress.  DBS Interactive has created a dynamic WordPress reference guide that is extensive and easy to use.  If [...]

Magic Fields has for over a year been the go-to for content management plugin for many of our Calgary social media client websites.  That’s why we are excited to see the huge improvements that have been put into the newly designed Magic Fields 1.5.  Starting from one of the most simple, yet noticeable changes is the improved [...]

Custom Post Types can be an intimidating task for any web designer that has relied on WordPress plugins in order to create custom panels in the admin area of your sites.  Once you start however you will have your own Custom Post Type up in no time. Then we can also figure out how to [...]

In my last tutorial I explained how powerful a plugin like Magic Fields can be in order to turn your standard WordPress blog into a dominant content management website.  One of the most important things of a great content management system contains is how well the content is organized.  Wordpress already provides us with a [...]

In previous tutorials we have discussed setting up our first WordPress Theme in order to have it customizable enough for us Web Designers.  Now that we have our “Posts” and “Pages” styled to our liking, it shouldn’t take long before you realize that you may want more text areas for your client to update pages [...]

In part 1 of this tutorial we went over the basics of your first WordPress install.  We installed Starkers which helped us web designers get a starting point we are comfortable with.  We then edited to index.php page and all of the other query pages to have our own loop.  After that we learned how to [...]