Best WordPress Development Tutorials From February 2010

Customize WordPress WYSIWYG Editor

A nice tutorial showing few different and very interesting ways to customize the wordpress admin WYSIWYG editor.

How to Create a Better WordPress Options Panel

Very detailed and easy to follow tutorial on creating an amazing options panel with a little help of jQuery of course.

How To Use The Post Thumbnail Feature In WordPress 2.9

Great tutorial about using the thumbnail feature that comes with 2.9. This tutorial goes through activating the feature, adding thumbnails to posts and showing them in the LOOP.

How to Widgetize Your WordPress Theme in 2 Steps

Wonderful and easy to follow tutorial on making your wordpress theme widget ready. The tutorial is written by Jeff Star, one of the Digging Into WordPress book writers.

WordPress : 10+ Life Saving SQL Queries

Sometimes we must use SQL queries to achieve what we want. Changing your account password, retrieving valuable data, disabling comments on older posts and more great sql queries in this tutorial writen by a well-known wordpress developer Jean-Baptiste Jung.

How to Create a Comments Central Page Template in WordPress

Detailed tutorial on creating a special template for showcasing comments and their authors.

Showing custom post types on your home/blog page

Nice little trick to show custom post types on the homepage. Could be useful…

Rockin’ out WordPress custom loops

Detailed tutorial on making custom loops in wordpress. Worth every single second of reading.

Custom Comments HTML Output

Interesting solution for custom comments layout using the comments_template(); function with a callback that allows you to do the custom layout.

Remove Private Or Protected From Post Titles

Another great trick from Chris Coyier. When you password protect a post the title will get a prefix like “Protected:”, so this snippet will remove that prefix from the titles.

Final Words

That’s it, i hope you like the tutorials i selected. If you think some other tutorial should be on this list say so in the comments and i might add it to the list.