Overview This tutorial shows how to build and integrate a lightweight mini-builder inside a WordPress metabox using the Meta Box (metabox.io or the Meta Box plugin) approach plus plain JavaScript. The mini-builder provides a block palette, an editable canvas, reordering and removal controls, and stores the layout as structured JSON in post meta. The example […]
Introduction This tutorial explains, in every required detail, how to create a custom welcome panel in the WordPress admin dashboard using PHP and JavaScript. The example below creates a small plugin (or code you can paste into your themes functions.php) that: Replaces the default welcome panel with a custom panel. Provides a dismiss control that […]
Overview This article is a complete, detailed tutorial for making WordPress Customizer changes live in the preview using the postMessage transport and JavaScript. It explains the difference between the postMessage transport and selective refresh, shows how to register settings for postMessage, how to enqueue and write the preview JavaScript, security and performance considerations, and several […]
Introduction This article is a comprehensive, practical guide to extending the WordPress Customizer in PHP with sections and controls. It covers the Customizer API basics, how to register sections, settings and controls, built-in control types, custom control classes, live preview using postMessage, selective refresh partials, sanitize callbacks, active callbacks, enqueuing assets, and practical examples you […]
Introduction This tutorial shows a complete, secure, production-ready approach to importing CSV files into WordPress using PHP with validation and clear feedback for the user. It covers: preparing the CSV format, building an admin upload UI, securely handling the upload, validating headers and each row (required fields, types, formats, uniqueness), inserting or updating WordPress data […]
Introduction This article is a complete, practical tutorial showing multiple ways to export CSV files from the WordPress admin using PHP. It covers secure implementation patterns, performance for large data sets, CSV formatting considerations (including Excel compatibility and character encoding), and several ready-to-copy code examples for different use cases: exporting posts (with meta and taxonomies), […]
Introduction This tutorial explains, in comprehensive detail, how to create custom bulk actions in the WordPress posts list using PHP. It covers the required hooks, secure handling, feedback to the user, examples for common tasks (update status, assign a taxonomy term, set post meta), JavaScript confirmation, performance considerations, and troubleshooting tips. Code examples are included […]
Introduction This article is a comprehensive, step-by-step tutorial that shows how to add and manage custom columns in the WordPress Posts list using PHP. You will learn the hooks involved, how to display different kinds of data (meta, featured image, taxonomies), how to make columns sortable, how to style them in the admin, performance and […]
Introduction What this tutorial covers: a complete, detailed walkthrough for creating a custom WordPress admin dashboard widget with PHP. You will learn basic and advanced approaches: a minimal widget, a widget with settings saved via a form (admin-post), an AJAX-based save, enqueuing admin assets, security and capability checks, localization, removing or repositioning widgets, and common […]
Overview This article is a complete, practical, copy-paste ready guide to adding extra fields to WordPress user editing screens (both admin profile edit and front-end registration) using PHP. It covers: How to display fields on the profile and new-user pages How to validate and save submitted values securely How to add fields to front-end registration […]
