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Get custom field outside the WordPress loop

Galadriel — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:48:32 +0000

Do you want to get a custom field outside the WordPress loop (e.g. in your sidebar) and you have no idea how? The following code snippet will help you do it.
* Replace the 'customField' in the 4th line with the name of your custom …

Creating a Simple Shortcode

Galadriel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:03:57 +0000

WordPress shortcodes are actually very easy to create. If you know how to write a basic PHP function, then you already know how to create a WordPress shortcode. For our first shortcode, let’s create the well-known “Hello, World” message.

Open the functions.php file in your

WordPress “Send to Twitter” Button Without Using a Plugin

Galadriel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:02:13 +0000

There are lots of plugins that let you insert a Send to Twitter button into your posts. If you don't want to use one or if you want to have the Send to Twitter button only in specific posts then you can make a shortcode …

WordPress Alternating Comments Styles

Legolas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:51:17 +0000

WordPress comments is probably one of the coolest features of WordPress. Our users can interact with our web site, giving us feedback for our articles. More importantly, many times when you go through comments, you can see some interesting conversations going on. Here is a …

WordPress Related Posts without using a Plugin

Legolas — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:46:07 +0000

Related posts is one of the most used functions in WordPress. Even though there are some great plugins to achieve this, the best way is to use a function of your own to display the related posts. To do that, simply copy and paste the …

Include jQuery in your WordPress Theme

Galadriel — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:17:47 +0000

If you want to include jQuery in your WordPress Theme the best way to do it is the following. Add this code to the theme’s functions.php file:
if( !is_admin()){ wp_deregister_script('jquery'); wp_register_script('jquery', ("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"), false, '1.4.1'); wp_enqueue_script('jquery');}
Replace the URL with the location of what version of …

Display Recently Updated Posts/Pages

Galadriel — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:50:31 +0000

In order to display the recently updated posts/pages in your WordPress blog/website you can use the following code:
<?php $today = current_time('mysql', 1); $howMany = 5; //Number of posts you want to display if ( $recentposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status =…

Display Recent Posts

Galadriel — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:29:17 +0000

Display recent posts of your WordPress blog / website without using a plugin. Simply copy and paste the following code (change the number used in showposts=5 in order to get any number of recent posts you want). Here is the code you need:
<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); …

What Are Shortcodes?

Galadriel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:48:35 +0000

Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are powerful but still yet quite unknown WordPress functions. Imagine you could just type "adsense" to display an AdSense ad or "post_count" to instantly find out the number of posts on your blog.

WordPress shortcodes can do this and more …