I’ve used Hibernate as a persistence layer for years. As any of you who have used it probably know, it was the basis for the Java Persistence API, the “portable” version of the Java Object Relational Mapping (ORM) API. Until the advent of version 2.1 of the JPA specification, one of the items that still […]
WordPress Customization Series – Custom Post Type
Table of Contents for the series So in our last episode, we got the basic framework for a plugin in place. It was a singularly boring plugin – not even as functional as WordPress’ “Hello Dolly” plugin, but it showed up on the WordPress console. Let’s add some functionality now. We’re going to create a […]
WordPress Customization Series – Basic Plugin Setup
Table of Contents for the series So let’s get started. For reasons we’ll see in the future, I’m going to create a custom post type (CPT) for WordPress (as well as a number of other odds and ends). There are two places we could do this – in a plugin, or in the theme we’ll […]
WordPress Customization Series – Background
Table of Contents for the series We’ve used WordPress as the base for our web site for quite a while. Thus, I’m reasonably familiar with plug-ins and themes as a user. Recently, however, I decided to dive deeper into actually designing for WordPress. The “back story” is probably not uncommon, at least in the broadest […]
WordPress Customization Series
This is the table of contents for my “WordPress Customization Series” – a series of posts in which I will be documenting my way through the creation of a somewhat-customized web site based on WordPress. Posts in the series: Background A little bit of background on why I’m doing this. If you’re interested just in […]