WordPress rewrite API used to convert URLs from something programmatically convenient to something user and search engine friendly. This article will give you some background information about wordpress URL rewriting principles and API.
WordPress provides a set of functions that enable easy access to plugin options. By default wordpress and plugins options are stored in wp_options table. Let’s explore these functions.
WordPress powers many large websites with thousands of users like blogs, applications, social networks and much more. You will deal with many cases in which you need to work with users and fortunately wordpress has many functions to handle users.
We discussed before how to work with wordpress built in roles and capabilities. Let’s lead by creating custom roles and add capabilities to these roles.
WordPress ships with a powerful roles and capabilities system which control users permissions. Roles enable plugin developers to group users, each group has its own permissions. Understanding roles and capabilities is important aspect of plugin development.
We discussed before wordpress users metadata and how it is flexible. Now we will explore how to use metadata in storing a per-user settings and how to add fields to user profile page to update metadata value.
WordPress creates 11 tables to store settings, users data, posts data, comments data, links and terms. In many cases wordpress tables can fit perfectly our plugin data but sometimes you need to create custom tables. WordPress provides a handful function that can create your custom tables and update their structure easily.
