So far this series has focused on some of the changes we as developers can implement to ensure our themes and plugins are accessible. In this article, we...

The third principle of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) states that content on a site, and how to use the site, should be understandable. It...

Broadly speaking this is the principle that your website must be able to be safely navigated for all users. This includes the guideline that your entire...

WAI-ARIA is a W3C protocol which improves your site's interaction with assistive technologies. In this part we look at how to implement it into your theme.

This principle states that all content must be in a format (or available on demand in a format) which can be readily perceived by the user. Said another way,...

In this series we take a look at Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and what practical steps theme developers can take to make their theme more accessible.

In this tutorial we're going to create a simple plugin which uses the Heartbeat API. Our plugin will alert logged in users, via a growl-like notification,...

In the first part of this series we looked at the basics of the Heartbeat API, and how it can be implemented in a plugin. In this tutorial we'll be looking...

With 3.6, aka "Oscar", just released, lets take a look at some of the new features that are available to developers. In particular, in this series I'll be...

If you use any form of social media, and in particular Twitter, then you have almost certainly come across 'shortlinks' – shortened URLs which act as a...

In the last tutorial we looked at exporting data from a custom table. Of course this is only half the story - we obviously need to provide a way of importing...

As mentioned in the very first article of this series, one of the major problems with custom database tables is the fact that they are not handled by...