Cats Who Code has put together an awesome list of the top 10 WordPress hacks from June 2009. The list has some hacks that I’ve never seen before on other websites, and are pretty unique and well-worth checking-out. Here’s one, and click over to see the full list of hacks: Make your WordPress theme translatable… Read More »
The WordPress development team has been developing an open-source wordpress BlackBerry application. The people behind WordPress have also been working with some of the people at Danais to help develop the application. To get the source of for the application, go to http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/. Click over to find the easy to follow instructions on how to install… Read More »
Before, we showed you how to automatically get tinyurl’s on your WordPress blog. Well this time, I found a tutorial that will make your WordPress blog automatically generate tr.im url’s for your blog posts. First to do this, add the following lines to your functions.php file: function getTrimUrl($url) { $tinyurl = file_get_contents(“http://api.tr.im/api/trim_simple?url=”.$url); return $tinyurl; }… Read More »
Too good to be free? Well it is. This theme is called DelliStore, and was developed by Magznetwork for Smashing Magazine. Here are some of the features that this theme has to offer: Dellistore Theme has the following features Designed for 2.7+ with threaded comments support Theme Options to control “Special Menu” widget Post Setting… Read More »
Yes, you heard me right. iThemes, one of the biggest and most well-known WordPress premium design vendors, is now going GPL. What this means is that themes are going to be cheaper, if you buy a theme, you can use it on as many websites that you want, and much more. This is the second… Read More »
Categories can be shown in a drop-down menu with no problem whatsoever, so shouldn’t the same concept apply to that of tag clouds? Well WP Hacks and figured out a way to do just that, with very little effort. First, copy and paste the following code into your functions.php file: 1 2 3 4 5… Read More »
Want to show the date on your WordPress blog just anywhere? Well, here’s a simple little hack with just a little bit of code that you can place anywhere for the date to be shown. Here’s that code, and you can place it anywhere that suits your needs: <?php echo date(‘l jS F Y’); ?>… Read More »
Want to display the author who last edited any given post? Well, here’s some simple code you can use to have that show on all of your posts. To first create the function for the task that we are going to do, copy and paste the following code into your theme’s functions.php file: if (!function_exists(‘get_the_modified_author’))… Read More »
If you’re kind of a lazy person like I am, then here’s just the tutorial for you. Juston Tadlock has perfectly shown how to preset text in the WordPress editor. What does this mean? That you can modify your current WordPress theme’s functions.php file, and with the copying and pasting of a little code, you… Read More »
Pro Blog Tutorials has again brought to us another very useful and practical tutorial in the WordPress realm. With this simple code and WordPress hack, you will be able to show the total number of users for your WordPress blog, anywhere you want in your template. Just place the following code anywhere in your template… Read More »
If you want to show the username of a logged-in user in some place other than the meta sidebar widget that comes pre-loaded with WordPress, you can do so by placing the following code anywhere in your WordPress theme, and it will accomplish this simple task: <?php global $current_user; if ( isset($current_user) ) { echo… Read More »
Okay, this is a super simple thing to do, and may be not worth posting, but if you are working on a theme yourself, this is something that is an essential addition to your sidebar.php file, and makes it easier for the user if they don’t want to mess around with widgets too much. You… Read More »
Well, here’s your roundup of all of the most recently updated plugins and released for WordPress released through April 15th, to April 20th. Make sure you update all of your plugins to keep your blog running in tip-top shape! Theme Tweaker LinkingPress WPML DiggBar Remover Related Websites DiggBar Killer Short Comment Filter Stealth Update Feed Pauser… Read More »
I never thought about completely implementing a Twitter follower counter within your WordPress themes’ files, but Jean-Baptiste Jung. from WPRecipes.com has come up with an excellent way of achieving such a task. Okay, so first off, copy and paste the following code, and add it to your current themes function.php file: function string_getInsertedString($long_string,$short_string,$is_html=false){ if($short_string>=strlen($long_string))return… Read More »
Thanks to WPRecipes, I have found an amazingly helpful tutorial how to get the word count in a post to show up on your index, or on your single page if you prefer. Here’s how we go about doing this. Okay, first, open up your functions.php file in your themes directory, and paste the following… Read More »
Here are all the latest and greatest in theme releases from April 3rd, to April 6th. If there are any that I have missed, or there is a theme that you would like featured on the site that you created, hit me up with an email at kdogg290@yahoo.com. Enjoy! 😉 Life Collage The Integrity Theme… Read More »
Lets say you have a fairly popular blog, but you want to follow the discussions that go on in the comments section. Instead of depending on that small avatar to find where you posted, here is an easy way to number all of the comments made on a post. I have included this on my… Read More »
Okay, if you run a blog that spans across many different pages, there is a simple but affective way to organize that page. First off, you can create your own site map page template if you want using this tutorial, then put the following code in there to produce all of your categories and sub-categories… Read More »
I get probably 10+ email a week asking me how to find your WordPress category ID, because a lot of template hacks and other WordPress hacks require the use of them. Well, I’m going to post an image, and tell you how to find the ID of your WordPress blog categories. Okay, log into your… Read More »