Instead of writing a tutorial on how to get you stated in the world of writing a WordPress theme from scratch, I will just give you a set of links to great material you can use.   Theme Development – WordPress Codex [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development] You will become familiar with the basis and structure of a theme [...]

If you have your own theme you will be also providing a Menu page for Admin Options, and consequently you will be linking stylesheets (css documents) as well as script files (most likely you would like to use jQuery). The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding the link and script tags directly on [...]

Chrome developer tools has a very cool feature to audit a web page and flag issues that by fixing them will provide your web page with better network utilization and performance, the usage is very simple and the results are really cool. Let’s try it out in the WordPress dashboard page, to do so we [...]

Firefox If you do most of your web development work with Firefox, Firebug has to be one of those extensions you cannot miss, it is like the Swiss knife for this browser; I could describe all their features here but you’d better check it out in their web site: http://getfirebug.com/ And here is a screenshot [...]

If you had to work with JQuery, you would know that identifying the elements selected by the query in order to have an insight on what is going on with your script might not be a trivial task, however you can run queries with the developer tools that Chrome offers and also you can achieve [...]

If you are starting with your own WordPress theme, plugin or widget, or simply you are having trouble in your site after you added the latest of them, you should know about the debug option in WordPress, it enables notifications to be printed out in your web page allowing to track subtle issues with your [...]

You spent quite some time setting up your environment in Windows by installing the full WAMP (Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP) stack, and you made sure that: Apache server is running and loading “plain” html files, Simple PHP files are loaded correctly You can access your MyQL database from the command line Your [...]