If you’re into creating WordPress themes for yourself, a client or even to sell the chances are you have thought about how you could improve your themes if they had an options page in the WordPress admin panel. This may seem a bit daunting to start with but it really doesn’t have to be, I’ve done a quick roundup of posts that show you how to create options panels in WordPress.

This is a pretty old video I came across from the Carsonified Blog. But it does cover a lot of interesting things that I’d never thought of before.

It’s all to do with AB testing when you’re running your site on WordPress. Don’t worry if you don’t know what AB testing is, he goes through it in the video.

I tried to embed the video in here but it didn’t want to work so here’s a link to AB Testing in WordPress from Carsonified.

For all of you who create (or are planning to create) your own WordPress themes. Here’s an excellent cheatsheet that will come in very handy!

Once you’ve done it a few times, creating a WordPress theme isn’t difficult, but it can be time consuming. You often have to trawl through lots of code adding and modifying bits here and there. I used to choose a simple theme as my starting point, if you choose a complicated theme to start with then you’re just making life more complicated for yourself.

Making sure your website is secure is one of, if not the most important thing you should think about especially if you’re using a common script like WordPress. Because the script is so popular people find any vulnerabilities it has and exploit it on any blogs they find. Luckily, again because it is such a popular script, there are a lot of nice people who develop plugins to make it more secure. In this guide, I’ll go through some of these plugins with you.