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Wordpress just becomes more and more powerful, it’s very hard to keep up with new features. Thankfully there are several very active people behind great blogs, who write very well explained tutorials and premade code snippets to let you learn everything in very easy way. Today I made my exercise to find such sites and articles, which are very new and WordPress 2.8. compatible. There are really long list with new features, you can check them in first link from WordPress Codex, so make sure you can keep up!
In summary you’ll find here 37 helpful tutorials, resources and hacks + 11 helpful WordPress related sites for further reading in long run. Hope you’ll like it!
It’s been a while since version 2.8. is released, all new features you can check on their website to get started with.
It’s a great achievement for WordPress 2.8 to be released so soon after 2.7. Named ‘Baker’, 2.8 adds plenty of new features, including syntax highlighting for theme/plugin editing, a theme installer, and a great revamped widgets interface and API.
This tutorial shows why new register_setting() way is so good and how to use it effectively.
Learn how you can expand plugins with useful functions and therefore optimize their usage in updated WordPress 2.8. version.
Check out which plugins are WordPress 2.8 version compatible and more.
Here is a list of plugins that have been tested for compatibility with Version 2.8.
Tutorial explaining how to create very simple WordPress 2.8 widget showing main changes.
Advanced tutorial by Justin Tadlock, where he will walk you through widget development process with simple example and very well explained breakpoints.
Yet another great tutorial explaining functions – widget(), update(), and form() and finally how to put them all together.
In this tutorial widget which will be created will display upcoming posts (scheduled posts). A lot of sites schedule posts to automatically publish at a specific time, helping them keep a steady flow of articles.
This article is more for developers with added sample code with new class, showing how to use it effectively.
In this tutorial you’ll going to learn how to create a simple multi-instance widget for adding posts your sidebar.
Useful tutorial explaining what taxonomy is and how to use it effectively in your own blog. Justin Tadlock also break down the code and explaining how to create custom taxonomy.
Following article will explain how to practically use custom taxonomies, in this case creating a movie database. Excellent tutorial!
If you’re going to be doing any level of WordPress development, themes or plugins, you will invariably run into the need to take advantage of the WordPress Action Hook system. In this article you’ll learn what wordpress action hooks are, how those hooks work and finally how to create your own action hooks.
In this post Ian Stewart will review how to write a PHP function and go over the basic idea of how you can use Action Hooks in your WordPress Theme. He will take a look at a practical example of injecting a Welcome Blurb into your Theme without touching the existing code and also look at how to remove existing content being injected into Theme Hooks.
On this article you’ll learn how to define your own hooks and trigger them using action hooks.
Learn what’s so significant with this function and how this opens up the ability to change the look of nearly everything with CSS only.
In this tutorial Lesterchan will demonstrate how to load JavaScript in the theme’s footer in WordPress 2.8 Nightly using his WP-Polls as an example.
In this quick tutorial, you will look at some potential uses for the recently overhauled Author Meta template tag.
Don’t display your WordPress version number publicly. Many WordPress developers often display the WordPress version in the source code. But having this information publicly available makes it easy for attackers to exploit known vulnerabilities on a particular WordPress version.
Useful function, which is listing related posts based on the category ID. It is better possibility reader will be interested in related posts which are in the same category than anything else.
The WordPress escaping API functions have been updated. Escaping is a way of using untrusted text that “neuters” anything that could do damage. Escaping is used in WordPress to avoid SQL injection and cross-site scripting/script injection (XSS), among other things.
This comprehensive article focus on optimising WordPress, a popular free open source blogging platform that runs on PHP.
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and WordPress custom fields.
Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are a very easy way to display lot of things on your blog posts by inserting a very simple code. In this article, you’ll find 10 incredible things shortcodes can do.
If you have any questions, problems consider checking out WordPress support forum covering installation and upgrading problems.
Actually there could be find a lot more such great tutorials, hacks, but I tried to include here most important and helpful ones in my opinion. For further reading I also listed below several very good blogs which are totally dedicated to WordPress or write very helpful articles about WordPress pretty often. If you are WordPress developer, I strongly recommend to subscribe to these blogs or at least keep eye on them. I am sure in future these blogs will keep delivering amazing tutorials, tips and tricks about WordPress new versions and everything WordPress related.
I just cannot stop to enjoy regular and extremely helpful posts WpEngineer editors are releasing.
I must admire I really love Justin’s Hybrid framework, very well explained tutorials and most important – everything is explained in very easy-to-understand way. Big fan.
DiggingIntoWordPress.com is the blog home for the upcoming book of the same name by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr. Books and blogs are the perfect compliment to each other when it comes to learning web technologies. The blog is there for search ability, quick tips, and copy and paste-able code. The book is there for offline reference and that essential full-attention first read through when your brain is ready to soak in a ton of new information. Digging Into WordPress brings you the best of both worlds.
Here you’ll find wordpress related tutorials pretty often – great resource!
Just type in search tag “wordpress” and you’ll get a nice list of WordPress related tutorials.
And again I feature WpScoop – WordPress social news and bookmarking site totally dedicated to collect the best WordPress related stuff possible.
I am sure there are many good WordPress tutorial sites I missed – if you know some more feel free to share them on comments section, I will add them to list!
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Friday, July 24th, 2009 17:08
Thanks or including WPscoop on the list amongst so many other greats. Coincidentally we launched WPscoop V2 into BETA yesterday with a new look and updated system.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 17:58
Hi! Great post! Thanks for including my blog in this list! I think now I need to change my logo design… :)
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 14:01
Hi Dainis, what a great roundup and we feel very special to be included in this list. Thank you very much, we appreciate your nice words!
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 13:38
Nice post.and very long list :) thanks for…
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 12:52
Hey Dainis, thanks for recommending my site! I’m glad you enjoy reading the tutorials on there, and I’ll definitely be checking out more of the articles on your site after reading this one!
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 10:12
Thanks for sharing this because after the updated I’ve had so many problems, and sites like these can help me a lot with all the bugs i have found.
thanks
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 06:58
I use WordPress as CMS for about 80% of my sites, this list is both truly insightful and comprehensive!
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 06:39
Great list, extremely useful and DEFINITELY “comprehensive”. I appreciated all the stuff with the 2.8 widget API.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 02:52
Absolutely useful toolbox for wordpress developers! I just upgrade my WordPress to 2.8.2 and everything seem ok. Oh ya, thanks for including my post in this ultimate list!
Monday, July 20th, 2009 23:34
Nice collection. Here’s another wordpress related entry that might go along well this this post:
http://briancray.com/2009/06/22/wordpress-related-html-css/
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:43
Hello-
Great collection of word press resources.Thank you so much.
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:39
Excellent post with lots of useful links. Thanks for inlcuding Cats Who Code on the list, I’m definitely on good company. Meow!
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:40
@Jean-Baptiste Jung sure, you have beautiful niche blog :) And yes your logo is just beautiful!
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Dainis Graveris
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:40
@Jean-Baptiste Jung sure, you have beautiful niche blog :) And yes your logo is just beautiful!
Brian Cray
Monday, July 20th, 2009 23:34
Nice collection. Here’s another wordpress related entry that might go along well this this post:
http://briancray.com/2009/06/22/wordpress-related-html-css/
Dicky
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 02:52
Absolutely useful toolbox for wordpress developers! I just upgrade my WordPress to 2.8.2 and everything seem ok. Oh ya, thanks for including my post in this ultimate list!
gautam hans
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:49
lovely great post again dugg it
Kayla
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 04:49
Great list–very useful. Covered just about everything!
Jean-Baptiste Jung
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:39
Excellent post with lots of useful links. Thanks for inlcuding Cats Who Code on the list, I’m definitely on good company. Meow!
BunnygotBlog
Monday, July 20th, 2009 21:43
Hello-
Great collection of word press resources.Thank you so much.
Vernon
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 06:39
Great list, extremely useful and DEFINITELY “comprehensive”. I appreciated all the stuff with the 2.8 widget API.
Rick
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 06:58
I use WordPress as CMS for about 80% of my sites, this list is both truly insightful and comprehensive!
Alex Vorn
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 17:58
Hi! Great post! Thanks for including my blog in this list! I think now I need to change my logo design… :)
Stuart
Friday, July 24th, 2009 17:08
Thanks or including WPscoop on the list amongst so many other greats. Coincidentally we launched WPscoop V2 into BETA yesterday with a new look and updated system.
Alex
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 14:01
Hi Dainis, what a great roundup and we feel very special to be included in this list. Thank you very much, we appreciate your nice words!
Nils
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 13:10
Greatness! This is going to take me some hours hehe
Luis Lopez
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 10:12
Thanks for sharing this because after the updated I’ve had so many problems, and sites like these can help me a lot with all the bugs i have found.
thanks
Alex
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 12:52
Hey Dainis, thanks for recommending my site! I’m glad you enjoy reading the tutorials on there, and I’ll definitely be checking out more of the articles on your site after reading this one!
tasarım
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 13:38
Nice post.and very long list :) thanks for…