I really like the new admin toolbar that came with wordpress 3.3. It is a significant improvement over its predecessor “admin bar”, which came with wordpress 3.0. I have met some (not many) developers who dislike this new addition. Regardless of your personal choice, as a developer, I think that you should make an effort…
Single Image Uploader for your theme/plugin options page
Recently I posted about how we can use Plupload to create custom image uploaders. While that was a preferable solution in few rare cases where you need to input multiple images, majority of theme settings require only a single image upload. In this post I am providing a better solution for single image upload –…
Image uploads on wordpress admin screens using jQuery and new Plupload
Since the release of version 3.3, WordPress is using a brand new media uploading engine – Plupload. Plupload is an awesome uploader created by the developers of TinyMce. Depending on the device, it can use HTML5, Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus, or normal forms to provide features such as upload progress, auto image resizing, and asynchronous…
Activation/Deactivation hook for wordpress theme
UPDATE (3 August 2012): In version 3.3.0 wordpress core provided direct activation/deactivation hook for themes (see the new usage below). (thanks to jacobsnyder for telling me about it) NOTE: The old approach will still work, so you don’t need to change your existing code if you were using the old approach. Activation hook: Code: <?php…