February 7, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in: Wordpress

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10 wordpress hacks & tricks that I like

There are many wordpress tweaks , hacks and tricks that we see everyday here are 10 tricks that I’ve seen lately and thought they are cool .

1- Display most commented posts with thumbnail .

Very simple and cool hack just paste the following code anywhere you want the list to show like your side bar file or footer file .

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<?php $popular = new WP_Query('orderby=comment_count&amp;posts_per_page=5'); ?>

<?php while ($popular->have_posts()) : $popular->the_post(); ?>

<?php $justanimage = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Image', true);

if ($justanimage) { ?>

<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post-/>ID, "Image", true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />

<?php } else { ?>

<img src="http://an-alternative-image.jpg" alt="" />

<?php } ?>

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

<?php endwhile; ?>

Change “http://an-alternative-image.jpg” to your default image url in case there is no thumbnail image linked to the post .

Source : wprecipes.com

2-Configure the trash

The Trash is a new feature since 2.9 . You can configure the number of days the posts stay in the trash from 30 to any number for example 7 .

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define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 7 );

Add the previous code to your functions.php them file .

Source : Wp Canada

3- Wrap Google Adsense In WordPress Posts Correctly

We will use shortcode api which is a very useful wordpress feature. Add the following to your functions.php theme file .

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function googlead_shortcode() {

$adsensecode = 'GOOGLE ADSENSE SHORCODE GOES HERE';

return $adsensecode;

}

add_shortcode('googlead', 'googlead_shortcode');

now in your post you can use the shortcode [googlead] where ever you want google’s adsense to appear .

Source : aext.net

4-Create an event list

An events list is just what you would expect; a list of upcoming events, ordered by the date they are taking place on (Not the date they were written on!).

Michael Martin has written a very detailed tutorial on how to create an event list using wordpress .

Full Details in Problog Design

5- Remove private or protected from post title

When you password protect a post the word protected is added to the post title . Some might be ok with this but some might want to remove it .

Just add the following to your functions.php file .

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function the_title_trim($title) {

$title = attribute_escape($title);

$findthese = array(

'#Protected:#',

'#Private:#'

);

$replacewith = array(

'', // What to replace "Protected:" with

'' // What to replace "Private:" with

);

$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);

return $title;

}

add_filter('the_title', 'the_title_trim');
Source : Digging into wordpress

6- Google map shortcode

A cool shortcut to insert google maps inside your . Instead of pasting the iframe directly inside your post and as we all know the visual editor text will screw the code .Paste the following inside your functions.php

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//Google Maps Shortcode

function fn_googleMaps($atts, $content = null) {

extract(shortcode_atts(array(

"width" => '640',

"height" => '480',

"src" => ''

), $atts));

return '<iframe width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="'.$src.'"></iframe>';

}

add_shortcode("googlemap", "fn_googleMaps");

Now you add the map in your post using the following shortcode. Just specify the width , height and url

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[googlemap width="200" height="200" src="[url]"]

Map

Source : Digging into wordpress

7- Display twitter and feedburner counter

I’ve seen this before but I like how short and clean this code is .Just paste the code anyway you want the counter to show .

Feedburner

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<?php

$url = file_get_contents('https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/Get

FeedData?uri=YOUR FEED ADDRESS');

$begin = 'circulation="'; $end = '"';

$page = $url;

$parts = explode($begin,$page);

$page = $parts[1];

$parts = explode($end,$page);

$fbcount = $parts[0];

if($fbcount == '') { $fbcount = '0'; }

echo '<b> '.$fbcount.'  Subscribers';

?>

Change YOUR FEED ADDRESS to your own feed address .

Twitter

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<?php

$twit = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show/USERNAME.xml');

$begin = '<followers_count>'; $end = '';

$page = $twit;

$parts = explode($begin,$page);

$page = $parts[1];

$parts = explode($end,$page);

$tcount = $parts[0];

if($tcount == '') { $tcount = '0'; }

echo '<b> '.$tcount.' </b> Followers';

?>

Change USERNAME to your own username .

Source : Webm.ag

8- Remind your returning and new visitors to subscribe to your RSS

When a visitor come across your site and they start going through your old posts they will get a message to suggest subscribing to your rss feed .

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<?php if(is_paged()){ ?>

<div id="rss-remind">

<p>Subscribe to <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> and never miss an entry:<br /><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">All Posts<span> (RSS)</span></a> | <a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">All Comments<span> (RSS)</span></a></p>

</div><!-- #rss-remind -->

<?php } ?>
Source :ThemeShaper

9- Remove trackbacks from the total number of comments

By defualt wordpress count the number of vistors comments and the number of tracksbacks as the total number of comments . But as in this site we wanted to show only the total number of comments . You can change this by adding the following to your functions.php

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add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0);

function comment_count( $count ) {

if ( ! is_admin() ) {

global $id;

$comments_by_type = &amp;separate_comments(get_comments('status=approve&amp;post_id=' . $id));

return count($comments_by_type['comment']);

} else {

return $count;

}

}

10-Split wordpress content into 2 or more column

Using this hack I can visualize many design ideas from splitting your content into 2 columns or more .

Add the following code to your functions.php

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// split content at the more tag and return an array

function split_content() {

global $more;

$more = true;

$content = preg_split('/<span id="more-\d+">< \/span>/i', get_the_content('more'));

for($c = 0, $csize = count($content); $c < $csize; $c++) {

$content[$c] = apply_filters('the_content', $content[$c]);

}

return $content;

}

Now go to you single.php file and comment the_content() by adding // before the line use the following code instead

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<?php

// original content display

// the_content('<p>Read the rest of this page »');

// split content into array

$content = split_content();

// output first content sections in column1

echo '<div id="column1">', $content[0], '</div>';

// output remaining content sections in column2

echo '<div id="column2">', implode(array_shift($content)), '</div>';

?>
Source :Site point



Fatma Alemadi

A freelance designer , a photographer ,a wife to a supportive husband and a mother of 2 lovely boys . You can see some of my work @104 design project for 2010 .
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