CMS PHP Tutorials

Showing The WordPress Comments In Reverse Order (Newest to Oldest)
Want to show the comments in reverse order, newest to oldest? It's really easy, here is how.

Disable Trackbacks And PingBacks In WordPress Comments
When you have trackbacks and comments mixed up together it looks messy. Good thing wordpress allows us to filter what we want really simple.

WordPress: Change User Roles For Multiple User In Wp-admin
In wordpress admin we can add more users to our blog. We can have some options to specify roles for the users depends on the user roles each users can access wordpress admin with their roles. Each role has certain limit to access wordpress amin. Only administrator role have the access for full admin area. Others have the responsibility of admin access based on their role.

How to create Author box in wordpress blog?
In this video tutorial I am going to show how to add author box in your wordpress blog. Because it is very important for each post, then only visitors can know about author. In author details you can put your Rss feed link and what are all the links you want, you can add in that author box description.

How To take backup of entire wordpress blog and restore that backup again?
This tutorial explains about how to take back up of your home directory folder (public_html). It doesn't cover how to take back up of database. If you don't have database, you wont see any posts or comments in your wordpress blog. Because posts and comments will be in database only.

10 Effective Ways To Secure Your WordPress Blog
Every version comes with improvements, but until we get a completely secure WordPress version we have to find ways to improve the security ourselves. Here are 10 great ways to improve the security of your WordPress powered website.

How to Build a Custom Wordpress Theme from Scratch
If you're confident with your CSS and HTML, its not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom Wordpress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into the various Wordpress theme files, and discover how the simple PHP snippets can add that dynamic functionality of a blog.

Filtering Wordpress Categories Using an Undocumented Hook
In this article, we will briefly cover Wordpress hooks and use an undocumented one in order to manipulate category listings.

How to slice and style a wordpress theme
I said that I was going to make a tutorial on how to code a theme design to work in Wordpress. I choose to code the Artists Page theme because its simple and you can understand better .

Wordpress: Customize the_content();
If you've ever wondered how you can get Wordpress to actually let you edit the more link at the bottom of post previews that show on the homepage, youve found the right place.

Adding and Managing Image Content in Joomla!
Utilizing multimedia effectively within a Joomla website requires discipline and knowledge. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options. This tutorial provides complete assistance that will enable you to utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. Along with browser support and accessibility for images, you will learn to create multimedia image galleries and slideshows as well as include images in articles and modules. (pdf tutorial, install acrobat reader to read this tutorial)

Create a funky most commented section for your blog!
After Engadget redesigned their website a few weeks ago, I noticed how their sidebar contained some unique methods of displaying posts. A nice featured posts section, a fancy calendar and an awesome most commented, digg and twitter section. Using the amount of comments to determine the width and having each post a different color to produce a rainbow, I thought was an awesome idea. So I had a go at making the most commented section for CreativityDen.

Build a Bare-Bones WordPress 2.8+ Widget
This tutorial is going to be a little more advanced than some of the fare around here, but in the end you'll have all the information you need to know to create your very own WordPress widget! And that's worth the effort, I think. However, you will need to understand a little bit of PHP for this to make much sense.

Build a User Login Flash Widget
This chapter teaches shows how to utilize user management within a Flash application by building a User Login Flash widget. One of the most important aspects of the Drupal CMS is its ability to manage its users and protect the content of that site using a permission-based role system. (install acrobat reader to view this tutorial)

Learn to Embed and Display Third party videos
learn how to embed and display third-party video within your content,using Embedded Media Field to automatically parse and display video from an editor's pasted URL from You Tube, Blip.TV, or other providers. (pdf tutorial, install Acrobat Reader to view this tutorial).

Record locking in Web applications
In this article we describe how to implement record locking in web applications. Because of the stateless nature of HTTP, you cannot really know whether the user left the page or is still looking at your site. We used the lock confirmation technique combined with lock expiration to solve this problem.

How to Create an Author Info Section in Wordpress
Its common to find an authors credit and bio at the end of a blog post, especially on blogs that post content from multiple writers. Using a cocktail of Wordpress template tags, an info section can be easily put together to showcase the authors avatar profile image, their name, link to their website and short bio .

Dynamic Theming in Drupal
This chapter takes a look at how Drupal system enables you to vary the styling between the sections,pages,users. PDF File!

Learn to Authenticate and Authorize your website using MODx
In this chapter, readers will learn how to modify their site to have a sign up form and log in form. They will also learn how to enable blogs to be posted only by friends. (pdf file, install Acrobat Reader to view this tutorial)

ThemeWars, A New Joomla, and The Case of the Missing Title
Ern's summer grab bag covers random news on content management systems and tips on how to hide page titles in Drupal.