Useful WordPress Tips,Tricks and Hacks
Show WordPress Child Pages Alongside Parent Page
This goes in your page template or sidebar template where you want your submenu to appear. It is outside the loop.
post_parent);
if($post->post_parent)
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); else
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
if ($children && is_page()) { ?>
<div class="subnav">
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent) ?>"></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<p><strong><a href="http://vonlind.com/2011/04/show-wordpress-child-pages-alongside-parent-page/" target="_blank">Source</a></strong></p>
<h3>How To Move the Admin Bar to the Bottom</h3>
<p>Copy and paste this code and place it on your functions.php</p>
[sourcecode language="php"]
// move admin bar to bottom
function fb_move_admin_bar() { ?>
<!--
body {
margin-top: -28px;
padding-bottom: 28px;
}
body.admin-bar <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wphead" class="tweet-hashtag">#wphead</a> {
padding-top: 0;
}
body.admin-bar <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23footer" class="tweet-hashtag">#footer</a> {
padding-bottom: 28px;
}
<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpadminbar" class="tweet-hashtag">#wpadminbar</a> {
top: auto !important;
bottom: 0;
}
<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wpadminbar" class="tweet-hashtag">#wpadminbar</a> .quicklinks .menupop ul {
bottom: 28px;
}
-->
// on backend area
add_action( 'admin_head', 'fb_move_admin_bar' );
// on frontend area
add_action( 'wp_head', 'fb_move_admin_bar' );
Source
How To Make Your WordPress Post Look Nice When Shared On Facebook (Updated)
The code allows you to set the “Featured Image” as the the image that Facebook shows when your link is shared. Secondly, it allows you to set a default image, in case your post does not make use of a “featured image”.You can use your logo for this default, by saving it in your themes directory, in a /images/ directory with the file name as default_icon.jpg. Or you can alter the image directory in the code below.
ID,'_thumbnail_id',false);
$thumb = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumb[0], false);
$thumb = $thumb[0];
$default_img = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory').'/images/default_icon.jpg';
?>
" />
Source
How To Add More Button on Visual Mode WordPress Editor
Open functions.php on your current theme using your favorite editor and add this code
function add_more_buttons($buttons) {
$buttons[] = 'hr';
$buttons[] = 'del';
$buttons[] = 'sub';
$buttons[] = 'sup';
$buttons[] = 'fontselect';
$buttons[] = 'fontsizeselect';
$buttons[] = 'cleanup';
$buttons[] = 'styleselect';
return $buttons;
}
add_filter("mce_buttons_3", "add_more_buttons");
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How To Automatically Add FTP Detail on WordPress
Open your wp-config.php and add this code
define('FTP_HOST', 'Your_FTP_Hosting');
define('FTP_USER', 'Your_FTP_Username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'Your_FTP_Password);
//If you use SSL connection, set this to true
define('FTP_SSL', false);
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How to Change WordPress Editor Font
Paste the following code to your function.php file
add_action( 'admin_head-post.php', 'devpress_fix_html_editor_font' );
add_action( 'admin_head-post-new.php', 'devpress_fix_html_editor_font' );
function devpress_fix_html_editor_font() { ?>
<!--
#editorcontainer #content, #wp_mce_fullscreen { font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; }
-->
Source
How to Remove the “read more” Jump
Paste the below code in your functions.php file
function wdc_no_more_jumping($post) {
return '<a class="read-more" href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'">'.'Continue Reading'.'</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'wdc_no_more_jumping');
Source
Use Shortcodes in Widgets
Paste the following code to your functions.php file
// shortcode in widgets
if ( !is_admin() ){
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode', 11);
}
Source
How to Add a New link to the WP Admin Bar and Remove an Existing Link.
Simply add this code to your functions.php file
remove_menu('comments');
// or we can remove a submenu, like New Link.
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-link', 'new-content');
// we can add a submenu item too
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'new_media',
'title' => __('Media'),
'href' => admin_url( 'media-new.php')
) );
}
// and we hook our function via
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );
?>
Here are some IDs for the default links WP 3.1 adds, found in /wp-includes/admin-bar.php:
my-account / my-account-with-avatar : the first link, to your account. Note that the ID here changes depending on if you have Avatars enabled or not.
my-blogs : the ‘My Sites’ menu if the user has more than one site
get-shortlink : provides a Shortlink to that page
edit : link to Edit [content-type]
new-content : the ‘Add New’ dropdown
comments : the ‘Comments’ dropdown
appearance : the ‘Appearance’ dropdown
updates : the ‘Updates’ dropdown
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How to Disable Self Trackbacks
Paste the following code to your functions.php file
function disable_self_ping( &$links ) {
foreach ( $links as $l => $link )
if ( 0 === strpos( $link, get_option( 'home' ) ) )
unset($links[$l]);
}
add_action( 'pre_ping', 'disable_self_ping' );
Source
How to Display Most Commented Posts of Specific Year Without Plugin
Paste the following code in the sidebar.php or where ever you want
<ul>
get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date BETWEEN 'YEAR-MM-DD (start)' AND 'YEAR-MM-DD (end)' ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10");
foreach ($result as $topten) {
$postid = $topten->ID;
$title = $topten->post_title;
$commentcount = $topten->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) {
?>
</ul>
Source
How to Display Tags as Dropdown
Add the below code to your function.php you will turn your standard tag cloud as a cool dropdown menu.
8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
'exclude' => '', 'include' => ''
);
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
$tags = get_tags( array_merge($args, array('orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC')) ); // Always query top tags
if ( empty($tags) )
return;
$return = dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args ); // Here's where those top tags get sorted according to $args
if ( is_wp_error( $return ) )
return false;
else
echo apply_filters( 'dropdown_tag_cloud', $return, $args );
}
function dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args = '' ) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$defaults = array(
'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC'
);
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
extract($args);
if ( !$tags )
return;
$counts = $tag_links = array();
foreach ( (array) $tags as $tag ) {
$counts[$tag->name] = $tag->count;
$tag_links[$tag->name] = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
if ( is_wp_error( $tag_links[$tag->name] ) )
return $tag_links[$tag->name];
$tag_ids[$tag->name] = $tag->term_id;
}
$min_count = min($counts);
$spread = max($counts) - $min_count;
if ( $spread <= 0 )
$spread = 1;
$font_spread = $largest - $smallest;
if ( $font_spread <= 0 ) $font_spread = 1; $font_step = $font_spread / $spread; // SQL cannot save you; this is a second (potentially different) sort on a subset of data. if ( 'name' == $orderby ) uksort($counts, 'strnatcasecmp'); else asort($counts); if ( 'DESC' == $order ) $counts = array_reverse( $counts, true ); $a = array(); $rel = ( is_object($wp_rewrite) && $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) ? ' rel="tag"' : '';
foreach ( $counts as $tag => $count ) {
$tag_id = $tag_ids[$tag];
$tag_link = clean_url($tag_links[$tag]);
$tag = str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', wp_specialchars( $tag ));
$a[] = "\t$tag ($count)";
}
switch ( $format ) :
case 'array' :
$return =& $a;
break;
case 'list' :
$return = "
<ul class="wp-tag-cloud">\n\t
<li>";
$return .= join("</li>
\n\t
<li>", $a);
$return .= "</li>
\n</ul>
\n";
break;
default :
$return = join("\n", $a);
break;
endswitch;
return apply_filters( 'dropdown_generate_tag_cloud', $return, $tags, $args );
}
?>
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