Tom McFarlin

In my last series of articles, we looked at the concepts of object-oriented programming from the perspective of the beginner. The goal of the series was to...

At this point, it's time to draw this beginner's series to a close but prior to doing so, I'd like to provide a summary of each of the articles so that we...

In the previous article, we introduced the concept of object-oriented inheritance, attempted to place it laymen's terms, and then also took a high-level look...

One of the hardest parts of writing a series for beginners on object-oriented programming is knowing where to stop. There are so many topics to cover that...

At this point in the series, we're ready to move forward with rounding out our plugin by documenting our files, classes, functions, variables, and more. ...

In the previous article in this series, we finally began preparing the foundation for the plugin that we're going to be writing. Specifically, we took a...

At this point in the series, we're finally able to begin building our first plugin using the object-oriented techniques that we've learned thus far in the...

In continuing our discussion of object-oriented programming in WordPress, we need to begin talking about the idea of scope. In short, this refers to the...

As we continue our discussion of object-oriented programming within the context of WordPress, it's time for us to begin talking about actual features of...

WordPress is a powerful CMS that provides a flexible foundation on which to build both sites and applications. If you want to extend WordPress functionality,...

Custom Post Types and taxonomies are two powerful features of WordPress. Unfortunately, they can have a tendency to cause problems if developers aren't...

In the last post, we took a look at classes which are the building blocks of object-oriented programming. Before we go any further, we need to take a survey...