How to Create an RSS Syndicator Site Using WordPress

In this tutorial, I will share on how to create a syndicator, or ping site, using WordPress functionality. This function can be useful for owners who want to create an article directory which will allow their users to submit articles to their website using RSS. To give some overview on how such a site may look, I’ve setup a Demo RSS Site for this tutorial. Now let’s begin.


Step 1 Setting Up A Feed Placeholder

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Designing a Landing Page Using AIDA Principles: New on Premium

In our latest Premium tutorial, we’ll design a landing page layout in Photoshop. Not only will we cover Photoshop techniques, we’ll also look at the theory behind each decision made – knowledge that can be applied to your very own designs.

Become a Tuts+ Premium member to gain access to the whole tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced videos, tutorials, and courses.


You’ll Learn How to:

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Use WordPress to Create and Archive Your Email Newsletter Online

This tutorial will show you an easy way to maintain an online version of your archived newsletter, while making it easy to create each email newsletter. The difference is creating an online version of your newsletter that you’ll use to create each email newsletter; Instead of creating an email newsletter, then having to create the online version. In order to do this you’ll need email newsletter software (such as GroupMail or Constant Contact), a WordPress install and the Single Post Template plugin.


Step One Download Single Post Template Plugin

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Put Users in Control With Confirmation Feedback Buttons

This tutorial will teach you how to create a responsive web page with buttons which take on different states depending on the user’s interaction. This type of interaction is especially useful on links such as “purchase” or “delete” where it’s wise to confirm that the user indeed wants to take a specific action.

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Adding Post Series Functionality to WordPress With Taxonomies

Ever wrote a “post series” on your blog? If you did, you probably needed to add the links of the other parts of the series into the latest post you wrote. Each time you finished a new part, you had to update the link list of the other parts. There has to be an easier way, right?

There is. In this article, we’re going to learn how to create the “post series” functionality by using the the taxonomies and shortcodes.

The article contains 3 parts:

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Employing AIDA Principles in Web Design

In this article we’ll discuss how we can use design to implement the principles laid out by AIDA (the marketing acronym, not the Italian opera) and help create sales-orientated web pages.

AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action; the four steps belonging to the process of selling according to E. St. Elmo Lewis, the man behind this school of thought. AIDA can be applied to different situations which involve selling products or services, but in this article we’ll focus on how we can achieve each step through web design.

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Quick Tip: Versioning Your Graphics Files With Dropbox

Version control isn’t just something for developers and doesn’t just apply to code. Having a version history of your graphics documents may save you from that awful moment when you realize you’ve scrubbed over a crucial stage of the design process. Thanks to Dropbox, you might already be storing versions of your work without even having noticed..

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Understanding the Walker Class

Menu items, pages and (hierarchical) taxonomies are all examples of data with a tree like structure: terms can have parents, children and siblings. Usually we would like to reflect this structure in the HTML markup. For displaying a menu, for instance, we want the HTML to be of a list of ‘top level’ links, with nested lists of their children, which themselves contain nested lists of their children, and so on. This tutorial will guide you through a class WordPress provides which makes producing this mark-up extremely simple.


What Is the Walker Class?

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