Introduction This article gives a complete, detailed, reproducible tutorial for adding a custom button to the WordPress Classic Editor toolbar using JavaScript (TinyMCE) plus the minimal required PHP hooks. It covers prerequisites, how WordPress expects TinyMCE plugins to be registered, permission checks, i18n, adding an icon, creating an editor modal or inserting content directly, CSS […]
Overview This article explains, in full detail, how to limit the block editor (Gutenberg) to a specific set of blocks per user role using PHP. It covers the available filters, practical examples, per-post-type rules, wildcard matching, dynamic configuration, where to place the code (theme vs plugin), and troubleshooting tips. All code examples are ready to […]
Introduction — what nested shortcodes means and why it matters Shortcodes are a key WordPress feature for transforming small inline tokens into structured HTML, widgets, or interactive components. A common requirement is to build shortcodes that accept inner content which itself may contain HTML, text, or other shortcodes — for example a container shortcode [tabs] […]
Overview This tutorial explains, in full detail, how to build an editorial notes system per post in WordPress using PHP and JavaScript. The result is a notes panel attached to each post (visible in the post editor for users with appropriate capabilities) where editors, authors, and other team members can add, edit, delete, and view […]
Introduction This article is a complete, detailed tutorial showing how to audit broken links in a WordPress site and present a comprehensive report in the WordPress admin using PHP. It includes architecture, best practices, security considerations, performance optimizations, a robust scanning implementation (chunked/batched), storage (custom table), admin UI, AJAX recheck, scheduled scans, CSV export, email […]
Introduction This tutorial shows everything you need to implement internal link suggestions in the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) using the REST API and JavaScript. It covers built-in REST endpoints, a production-safe client-side implementation (debouncing, escaping, nonces), an optional custom REST endpoint (server-side) when you need custom ranking/fields, examples integrating the suggestion UI into a custom […]
Introduction This tutorial shows a complete, production-ready approach to require a featured image (post thumbnail) before allowing a post to be published in WordPress. The solution contains two complementary layers: Client-side (JavaScript) — user-friendly UI prevention in both the Classic Editor and the Block Editor (Gutenberg), so users get immediate feedback and the Publish button […]
Introduction Duplicate content is an SEO and user-experience problem. On WordPress sites duplicates can arise from repeated publishing, syndicated content, programmatic imports, REST/API submissions, translations, revisions, attachments and mistakes in editorial workflows. Preventing duplicates as early as possible (prior verification) is the safest way to keep your site clean, avoid search-engine penalties or ranking dilution, […]
Introduction — why clean slugs and where WordPress acts Slugs (the post_name field in wp_posts) are the URL-friendly strings that identify posts, pages and custom post type entries. Clean, predictable slugs are important for SEO, readability, and avoiding broken links. WordPress already provides a strong slug sanitization pipeline (remove_accents, sanitize_title_with_dashes, fallback transliteration) but many projects […]
Overview This tutorial explains, in exhaustive detail, how to intercept post saving in WordPress to generate custom slugs using PHP. You will learn the recommended hooks, examples for basic and advanced slug generation, handling of edge cases (autosaves, revisions, REST/Gutenberg), multilingual/transliteration strategies, uniqueness handling, best practices to avoid infinite loops, and a complete example plugin […]
