Articles by TutsPlus - Code from December 2015

You have learned a lot over the past weeks, grasshopper, and you might even feel a bit overwhelmed at this point. I'd like to leave you with some advice and a bunch of resources to keep you on track t...

Providing end users with the option to enable or disable certain features of a premium plugin or a theme is pretty common. Titan Framework has recently pushed a new option to its core which does exact...

In this article of the Magento Theme Development series, we'll finalize the product page from where we left it in the previous article. We'll edit the phtml files responsible for rendering the media s...

In the previous lessen, we laid the foundation for the shopping list application. In the first part of this lesson, we further refine the application by enabling the user to edit and delete items from...

One of the coolest features of Titan Framework is that it can automatically generate CSS for all the option types. There also exists a Sass compiler which not only compiles but also minifies the CSS. ...

In the next two lessons, we'll put what we learned in this series into practice by creating a shopping list application. Along the way, you'll also learn a number of new concepts and patterns, such as...

Now that we have completed the home page and the category page, in this tutorial we'll start editing the third most important page of the eCommerce website: the product page. Let's first open up the p...

What You'll Be CreatingI pitched this story to Envato Tuts+ back in August 2014 but have been too busy running WordPress and plugin updates on all my sites to find time to write it (well, and I had&nb...

Persisting data across application launches is a requirement that most iOS applications have, from storing user preferences in the defaults system to managing large data sets in a relational database....

In the previous tutorial, we discussed how a navigation controller enables the user to navigate hierarchical content or complex data by managing a stack of view controllers. Tab bar controllers also m...

Sometimes while building a plugin or a theme, developers like to provide end users with the ability to add custom code. Today, I'll discuss how to add the code type option with Titan Framework, which ...

In the previous article on category pages, we edited the toolbar, grid and list layout. In this second article on customizing the category page, we'll customize the sidebar and do some CSS fixes.First...

AngularJS has become the go-to framework for many web developers. It is an all-in-one solution for quickly building front-end single-page web applications. A trade-off, though, is that we have to work...

On iOS, navigation controllers are one of the primary tools for presenting multiple screens of content. This article teaches you how to use navigation controllers by creating an application for browsi...

In the following video, we're going to take a look at what's required to setup WooCommerce. This is a popular WordPress plugin that makes it easy to setup a shop within the context of WordPress.Here, ...

So far in this series, I've discussed all the major option types which you can add with Titan Framework. However, there are three simple option types which we are going to discuss today. These are the...

It wasn’t that long ago that Apple surprised iOS developers with Swift. In the short time since then, it has enjoyed a rapid pace of adoption among the development community. In fact, in a survey co...

Today, I am going to discuss the sortable type option in Titan Framework. It provides the end user with a number of options which can be rearranged via a drag & drop interface and can be enabled ...

Congratulations on completing the home page of your new theme, and starting with the next page. In this tutorial, we'll start modifying the category page of our Magento theme. The category page esse...

The biggest challenge after developing and launching a mobile app is assuring that your users continue to use the product beyond the initial install. Keeping the churn of users as low as possible is ...

Previously, we learned how you can permit users to enable multiple choices with the multicheck type option in Titan Framework. Now we'll discuss another option which works along the line of multicheck...

It's been a year now since the release of OpenCart 2.x.x, and now things seem to be stabilized as far the core APIs are concerned. Obviously, most of the popular extensions support the 2.x.x version a...

Table views are among the most used components of the UIKit framework and are an integral part of the user experience on the iOS platform. Table views do one thing and they do it very well, presenting...

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The process of creating a WordPress plugin can be daunting especially as you're just getting started. But before trying to create a large, multi-featured plugin, why not start off with the basics?In t...

The checkbox, radio, and select type options allow users to make a single choice out of a set of predefined choices. How about when you need to provide an end user with the ability to make more than o...

Sometimes you need to be notified when nodes change in a DOM tree. In the recent articles we had a look at everything from constraint validation to iterating through nodes. We always assumed that ...

In the previous article, we created a simple application with nothing more than a label and a button. Despite its simplicity, the application had a few layout problems. In this tutorial, you learn how...

When you need to display a lot of options in the form of a dropdown, you can use a select type option with Titan Framework. Today, we are going to create a select type option in a custom admin panel, ...

UIKit is the framework that you'll user most often when developing iOS applications. It defines the core components of an iOS application, from labels and buttons to table views and navigation control...

When creating a dynamic set of options, you should always provide an end user with a set of choices, and radio type options in Titan Framework can help in this regard. Let's see how you can create rad...

Security is a topic that comes up from time to time. It is not an issue from the beginning, but once something bad happens it is usually considered the one to blame. Software is complex, the human...

The Foundation framework is the bread and butter in the toolbox of an iOS developer. It provides the NSObject root class and a large number of fundamental building blocks for iOS development, from cla...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroducing AssemblaAssembla provides an extensive and comprehensive cloud-based collaboration platform for technology teams, especially in a world in which so many of us are us...

So far in this series, we've discussed the front-end and back-end sections of OpenCart affiliate management. In the first part, we explored how to manage affiliate accounts from the back-end, while in...

I know the previous three articles may seem to be loaded with too much information, and you might have had a hard time following some of the steps. But the good news is that we are done with the diffi...

Although a relatively new technology, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) has already proven itself to be a versatile and useful communication medium. While it can be used for connecting devices to each other ...

Project templates are a great way to learn from other people's work. This article lists a few popular iOS templates available on Envato Market. If you are looking for inspiration or you're building an...

In this article, we will explore the date type option in Titan Framework: how it works and what parameters it offers. Find out how you can create a date picker inside a custom WordPress admin panel, a...

When we create a new tab in the browser, a new browsing context is created. A browsing context aggregates a lot of different things that we take for granted: things like session and history manage...

WebRTC is a new standard that provides web and mobile apps with real-time communications. WebRTC makes it easy to deliver streaming video and audio communications to the browser and mobile platforms. ...

A good understanding of the iOS SDK is key when developing native iOS applications. Not only will it help you choose the right tools to tackle a particular problem, it will also make sure that you don...

Allowing an end user to change the font of your theme can be an intimidating task, especially when you want to provide this option inside a custom admin panel, a metabox, or even the theme customizer....

HTML5 gives us a lot of really good advantages. Besides the usual suspects like the unified error model, the introduction of new semantic tags or a simplified document type, one of the greatest im...

More and more mobile applications offer the ability to send messages to other users using the application. In many games, for example, you can chat with fellow gamers while chat applications allow yo...

While this tutorial focuses primarily on functions and closures, we take a brief detour at the end to explore protocols and access control. We'll be working with protocols later in this series so it's...

As a PHP developer, you may be interested in working with frameworks. Frameworks attempt to make the process of development easier by simplifying common practices used in the majority of developing we...

WordPress themes have become dynamic, and a larger part of their control lies in the hands of a user. Today, managing and configuring theme settings has become quite easy. One of the handiest option...

Apple introduced the Swift programming language during its annual developer conference in 2014, much to he surprise of the developer community. The company is serious about Swift, it isn't an experime...

Shot and to the point, the Laravel homepage describes the framework as:The PHP Framework For Web ArtisansShort, sweet, and to the point. That is, if you're already familiar with PHP and other framewor...

While building WordPress themes, I often find myself in a position where I need the end user to enter a number within a given range to do something at the front-end. Titan Framework offers a cool numb...

One of the most important concepts in the DOM is tree traversal. Since computer science has been established as its own field of study, decades of research have been spent on data structures and a...

More and more mobile applications offer the ability to send messages to other users using the application. In many games, for example, you can chat with fellow gamers while chat applications allow yo...

On Android, the AsyncTask class is commonly used to perform operations on a background thread. In this video, I show you how an AsyncTask works and how you can use it in your projects. A Bit More D...

On Android, the AsyncTask class is commonly used to perform operations on a background thread. In this video, I show you how an AsyncTask works and how you can use it in your projects. A Bit More D...

If you use Sass, enjoy using Bourbon and would like to use a smart grid framework for lightweight layouts, Neat might very well become your trusted companion for the foreseeable future. In this short ...

In this series, we're exploring affiliate marketing in the context of OpenCart. In the first part, we went through the back-end section of the affiliate management. Today, we'll go ahead and discuss t...

Now that we have completely customized the first half of the home page, we need to modify the content of the home page next. If we look at our HTML design, the home-page content section has just one h...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionOne of the most effective marketing tools is definitely word of mouth. Social proof is a very powerful stimulus when it comes to decision making. While people easil...

Adding dynamic color options to a WordPress theme is pretty common. Titan Framework allows you to create color options. Let's see how you can add a color picker inside an admin panel, a meta box or a ...

There are several types of DOM nodes. There are Document, Element, Text and many more, which also implement the generalized Node. One of the more interesting, yet until now not so often used ones,...

Even though we've already learned quite a bit in this series on iOS development, I'm sure you are eager to start building iOS applications that do something cool or useful. In this tutorial, your wish...

In this video, we'll be taking a brief look at WordPress Multisite and it offers us. This includes topics such as:What is WordPress Multisite and how does it differ from single site?Where might you ha...

Titan Framework offers a broad range of options which you can add in a plugin or a theme to provide end users with dynamic settings. Today I am going to discuss cover two of the most basic options: a�...

Do you want to learn more about creating map applications for Android? How about Python machine learning? Or perhaps you'd like a refresher on the essentials of GitHub? Our latest batch of eBooks cove...

Provisioning an application for testing on a physical device or for App Store distribution can be a nightmare for beginners. Every iOS developer has to tackle this hurdle at some point, though. In thi...

Provisioning an application for testing on a physical device or for App Store distribution can be a nightmare for beginners. Every iOS developer has to tackle this hurdle at some point, though. In thi...

The Theme Customization API, added in WordPress 3.4, allows developers to customize and add controls to the Appearance > Customize admin screen. Titan Framework allows you to extend and use a good...

Encoding is just one of those things that need to be done right. If done wrong, everything seems to be broken and nothing works. If done right, no one will notice. This makes dealing with encoding...

Before we can start creating iOS applications, we need to set up the development environment. In this tutorial, I show you how to register as an Apple developer and install the development tools you n...

Before we can start creating iOS applications, we need to set up the development environment. In this tutorial, I show you how to register as an Apple developer and install the development tools you n...

Creating your first HTML document is one of the most satisfying moments for any new web designer. Here’s how to do it in 60 seconds! A Bit More DetailLearn more about HTML.30 Days to Learn HTML &a...

For e-commerce frameworks, affiliate marketing has become an important feature to have in the kitty. Thus, you'll find it included in most of the e-commerce frameworks in the core itself, and so it is...

In the previous tutorial in this series, we started modifying the header section of the home page. In this tutorial, we'll start where we left off with the header section improvement, and then we'll c...

We know that many of our subscribers are busy people and have limited time available for online learning. So we've created a new type of video content, called the "Coffee Break Course", that's&nb...

Before you begin building iOS applications, it is crucial that you first understand the ecosystem. This article examines the fundamentals of Apple's operating systems, the various devices available, a...

Before you begin building iOS applications, it is crucial that you first understand the ecosystem. This article examines the fundamentals of Apple's operating systems, the various devices available, a...

Project templates are a great way to learn from other people's work. This article lists a few popular Android templates available on Envato Market. If you are looking for inspiration or you're buildin...

Titan Framework has really eased the tedious task of creating metaboxes in your web development project. Before Titan Framework, I had to write some very lengthy piece of code to display metaboxes wit...

One of the most important concepts of HTML5 is the unified parsing model. In earlier versions of the HTML specification, the implementer had a lot of freedom. Basically one could choose how to han...

In the previous tutorial of this series, we added the ability to add, update, and remove shopping lists. A shopping list without any items in it isn't very useful, though. In this tutorial, we'll add...

The Android Wear API brings the Android platform to the newest generation of wearable devices and smartwatches. With Android Wear, you can create a user experience designed specifically for wearables....