WP WordPress » Beginner http://www.wpwordpress.com Online WordPress Tips, Tutorials, and Resources for WordPress Users Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:48:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc How to Display Most Recent Twitter Tweets in WordPress Blog http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-most-recent-twitter-tweets-in-wordpress-blog http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-most-recent-twitter-tweets-in-wordpress-blog#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:03:12 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=270 Since Twitter became popular, many bloggers like to display recent twitter tweets on their website... Read more

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Since Twitter became popular, many bloggers like to display recent twitter tweets on their website or blog. To display most recent twitter tweets, simply copy and paste the following code to your sidebar.php file.

<?php
// Your twitter username.
$username = "TwitterUsername";
// Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet.
// (HTML is OK, but be sure to escape quotes with backslashes: for example href=\"link.html\")
$prefix = "";
// Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.)
$suffix = "";
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1";
function parse_feed($feed) {
$stepOne = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
$stepTwo = explode("</content>", $stepOne[1]);
$tweet = $stepTwo[0];
$tweet = str_replace(”&lt;”, “<”, $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(”&gt;”, “>”, $tweet);
return $tweet;
}
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>

Thanks the awesome code from WP Hacks.

]]> http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-most-recent-twitter-tweets-in-wordpress-blog/feed 0 How to Create Meta Description Function and Meta Keyword Tags http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-create-meta-description-function-and-meta-keyword-tags http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-create-meta-description-function-and-meta-keyword-tags#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:55:39 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=247 If you want to create meta description function and meta keyword tags for your wordpress themes,... Read more

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If you want to create meta description function and meta keyword tags for your wordpress themes, open header.php file and then copy and paste the following code within <head> and </head>.

<meta name="description" content="
<?php if ( (is_home()) || (is_front_page()) ) {
echo ('Your main description goes here');
} elseif(is_category()) {
echo category_description();
} elseif(is_tag()) {
echo '-tag archive page for this blog' . single_tag_title();
} elseif(is_month()) {
echo 'archive page for this blog' . the_time('F, Y');
} else {
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Metadescription", true);
}?>">

Thanks the original function from Malcolm Coles.

]]> http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-create-meta-description-function-and-meta-keyword-tags/feed 0 How to Display the Total Number of Comments on Your Blog http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-the-total-number-of-comments-on-your-blog http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-the-total-number-of-comments-on-your-blog#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:33:14 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=228 Who don't like to have comments on your blog? If your blog has many comments, it can be say that... Read more

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Who don’t like to have comments on your blog? If your blog has many comments, it can be say that your blogs is popular, at least people like to interact with you to ask question and share information with you. If you really proud with your total number of comments on your blog, and want to show off to visitors.

To display the total number of comments on your blog, simple add the following code to your wordpress files.

<?php
$numcomms = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = '1'");
if (0 < $numcomms) $numcomms = number_format($numcomms);
echo "There's ".$numcomms." total comments on my blog";
?>

Special thanks to PHP Magic Book for this awesome code.

]]> http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-the-total-number-of-comments-on-your-blog/feed 0 How to Create Page Templates http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-create-page-templates http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-create-page-templates#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:10:50 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=213 Normally I will use page templates to display the archives which will list all posts on my blog,... Read more

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Normally I will use page templates to display the archives which will list all posts on my blog, anyway you can use page templates to get specialized results apart from the basic static page template.

What you need to do is to add the following code to the first line of your php files, you can change the template name as you wish.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Archives
*/
?>

So now, you have to create a page template named Archives. Then, create a new page, find Template drop down box (refer picture) and choose Archives, this is a page template named Archives that you have created just now.

]]> http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-create-page-templates/feed 0 How to Add a Print Button to Your Posts http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-add-a-print-button-to-your-posts http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-add-a-print-button-to-your-posts#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:35:52 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=209 I don't think you will need to add a print button to your posts on your blog, but in case you want... Read more

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I don’t think you will need to add a print button to your posts on your blog, but in case you want to have it, you can just copy and paste the following code into single.php file. It’s looks simple, right? @_@

<a href="javascript:window.print()">Print this Article</a>
]]> http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-add-a-print-button-to-your-posts/feed 0 How to Display Twitter Count in Plain Text http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-twitter-count-in-plain-text http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-twitter-count-in-plain-text#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:43:55 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=201 Many people will use Twitter counter badge from TwitterCounter.com to show twitter count in their... Read more

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Many people will use Twitter counter badge from TwitterCounter.com to show twitter count in their website or blog, but twitter counter badges from TwitterCounter.com didn’t come with color personalization, sometimes it can’t match the color of the theme, so I don’t like to use it.

If you want to display Twitter count in plain text, you can follow the below steps.

1. Add the following code to functions.php.

function string_getInsertedString($long_string,$short_string,$is_html=false){
  if($short_string>=strlen($long_string))return false;
  $insertion_length=strlen($long_string)-strlen($short_string);
  for($i=0;$i<strlen($short_string);++$i){
    if($long_string[$i]!=$short_string[$i])break;
  }
  $inserted_string=substr($long_string,$i,$insertion_length);
  if($is_html && $inserted_string[$insertion_length-1]=='<'){
    $inserted_string='<'.substr($inserted_string,0,$insertion_length-1);
  }
  return $inserted_string;
}

function DOMElement_getOuterHTML($document,$element){
  $html=$document->saveHTML();
  $element->parentNode->removeChild($element);
  $html2=$document->saveHTML();
  return string_getInsertedString($html,$html2,true);
}

function getFollowers($username){
  $x = file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/".$username);
  $doc = new DomDocument;
  @$doc->loadHTML($x);
  $ele = $doc->getElementById('follower_count');
  $innerHTML=preg_replace('/^<[^>]*>(.*)<[^>]*>$/',"\\1",DOMElement_getOuterHTML($doc,$ele));
  return $innerHTML;
}

2. Copy and paste the following short code to anywhere on your theme files, remember replace your twitter username.

<?php echo getFollowers("yourtwitterusername")." followers"; ?>
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Personally, I prefer to display my blog categories without in drop down box, but if you really have many categories on your blog, perhaps you can display categories in drop-down box so that your blog will looks more neat.

Below is the simple code to display categories:-

<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name'); ?>
</ul>

To display categories in drop-down box, use the following code.

<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" method="get">
<?php
$select = wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select category&show_count=1&orderby=name&echo=0');
$select = preg_replace("#<select([^>]*)>#", "<select$1 onchange='return this.form.submit()'>", $select); echo $select; ?>
<noscript><input type="submit" value="View" /></noscript>
</form>
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There are 2 ways to exclude certain categories from your blog, one is use wordpress plugin named Advanced Category Excluder. This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content sparationd and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress. The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.

The alternative way is without plugin, you can add the below code inside the loop then it will work.

<?php
if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .'&cat=-1,-2'); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>
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There are 2 ways to highlight author’s comments, one is use highlight author comments wordpress plugin, another idea is without wordpress plugin. If you don’t want to use wordpress plugin to highlight author’s comment, you can follow the below few simple steps.

First, you need to open styles.css and add the following into this file.

.authorstyle { background-color: #B3FFCC !important; }

Second, open comments.php, find and locate the following code.

<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></li>

And then replace with

<li class="<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) $oddcomment = "authorstyle"; echo $oddcomment; ?>"></li>

Please note that you must change 1 to the user id of the author. Thanks to Matt Cutts for this tutorial.

]]> http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-highlight-authors-comments/feed 0 How to Display Recent Posts from Specific Category http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-recent-posts-from-specific-category http://www.wpwordpress.com/how-to-display-recent-posts-from-specific-category#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:24:44 +0000 Lego Lee http://www.wpwordpress.com/?p=127 Initially I was thinking to display all the posts from specific category in my archives page, but... Read more

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Initially I was thinking to display all the posts from specific category in my archives page, but this doesn’t work well if you have thousand of posts for one category, that’s why I want to limit the number of recent posts displayed from specify category.

To display recent posts from specific category, you can make use of the following coding. To change the number of displayed recent posts, simply change the showposts=10 to your desired number; cat=1 is your category number, you have to change this too.

<ul>
<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=1&amp;showposts=10"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul

In case you need to display all posts from specific category, then you can use the following coding. cat=6 is your category number, please change it.

<ul>
<?php query_posts('cat=6'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $wp_query->is_home = false; ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> – <?php the_time('j F Y') ?></li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</ul>

Thanks to Ready WP Themes for this coding.

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