If you’re a Wordpress plugin or theme developer like we are, there might be times when you wanted to have a live demo or showcase on the cool stuff your plugin can do. However, most plugins are only configurable by administrators of the blog, and giving out admin permission on your Wordpress blog can be disastrous. Want to let your users have full admin access without compromising security? This post briefly runs through a few quick steps to get you started!

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Want some nice and pretty charts for your website or application? Open Flash Chart provides a fast and simple way to show off your statistics!

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This tutorial is a continuation of the Porting your website design into a WordPress theme, if you haven’t already read that post, or isn’t looking for specifically the things we will include in this post (listed below), we strongly recommend to check out that post first.
Today, we are going to talk about:

• Single.php
• Category.php
• Comments.php
• And other tips when you design.

We have already handled the four most important flies in the previous article, and so today’s tutorial is going to be relatively easier =)

If you like this post, Digg it here: http://digg.com/programming/Porting_your_website_design_into_a_WordPress_theme

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Need a lightweight, easy-to-install, yet powerful photo gallery?
Minishowcase is the photo gallery for you!

Minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX that allows you to easily show your images online, without complex databases or coding, allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes.

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Recently when Jonathan and I designed this theme, I was in charge of porting it over to make it work on Wordpress. (Yes, that means Jonathan did everything else.. Kudos to him =P) It was not totally painful with the great amount of help i can get from Wordpress Codex and other websites, but I felt it would be more convenient to compile all of them together into a simple guide.

This tutorial is going to teach you how to port your [finished] website design to a WordPress theme. It sounds hard, but it is actually not. =) So, let us begin…

Please note that the finished work of this tutorial will not have WP 2.7(or up) features (nested comments, etc.)

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This article is a continuation from What is PHP?. if you have not already read that post, please point yourself to that page =)

Today, I am going to briefly talk about conditional statements, such as if… elseif…… those kinds of things. Get yourself ready, and let’s get started!

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Nowadays, most websites are created out of PHP. Why? Simply because it is flexible. It can integrate very nicely into other programming languages and databases such as HTML, Javascript, Ajax, MySQL, etc.  Also, it is absolutely free to use!

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (It doesn’t really make sense, I know.. ). The latest stable version is 5.2.6 (as of the time this post was posted. In this article, I am going to post a short introduction of PHP. If you are already a PHP guru, I suggest you to skip this =)

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