How to Add Numbers to Your Comments in WordPress
I have been receiving a large amount of comments on my Magazine Basic theme and I was having a bit of trouble referencing certain ones, so I decided to add some numbers to the side of each comments to make it easier. It was actually a simple thing to do so here is a quick […]
Simple Contact Form for WordPress: Redux
I have gone into this code and really cleaned it up to make it work properly with WordPress installs that are in subdirectories or wherever. I have also added a wicked little open source captcha script which I borrowed from the awesome folks at phpcaptcha.org to make the form 100 times more secure.
Excerpt and Content Word Limit WordPress Plugin
After I posted Limiting the Number of Words in Your Excerpt or Content in WordPress I thought it would be a good idea to actually create a little plugin for those who aren’t actually code hackers.
Excerpt or Content Word Limit in WordPress: Redux
This is just a revamp of a function I wrote a while back to add the ability to limit the number of words displayed when you call the excerpt or content. As it stands, the max number of words for the excerpt is 55. There is a new function with WP 2.9 to increase this […]
Removing Images from a WordPress Post: Redux
I wanted to remove the images from a WordPress post to give me more control of how I could layout the design for the front page of a website. After doing some messing around and failing, I finally found a great post by Chris Shuld which had an amazing little piece of code that solved […]
PHP Code to Redirect Mobile/Handheld Users
With the amount of people walking around using iPhones or some sort of Blackberry or PDA, it makes sense to provide an alternative landing page for Mobile/Handheld users that is formatted for their device. I was recently hired to create a mobile page by a client and found a great piece of code to help […]
How to Widgetize your WordPress sidebar
WordPress widgets are great. They have tons of amazing functions and are extremely easy to use. The only problem is that not all themes support them. But that is a problem that is very easily solved with just a little bit of coding.
Character Issues with the Magpie RSS Parser
A client asked for me to put together a page on his website that would collect info off of his RSS feed and populate a page that could be viewable by a handheld device. I decided to use a great tool called Magpie RSS to do the job but I encountered an issue with it […]
Checking if a Widget has Been Activated in WordPress
Sometimes, it is extremely difficult to find out if a function already exists in WordPress or if you need to create one yourself to get it to function how you need it to. I had created a widget for my Magazine Basic 2.0 free premium theme and I needed to make sure that if it […]
How to Create a WordPress Widget
While I was developing my Magazine Basic 2.0 backend interface, I decided to include a few widgets that I thought would be useful. The only problem was I had no clue how to do it. I knew that I need to add the code to the functions.php file in the theme I was using but […]