How to Display Most Popular Posts Without a WordPress Plugin

13. September 2009 in WordPress Tips | 0 Comments
Tags: , , ,

Many blogs have display most popular posts on their blog to make visitors stay longer on their posts, this is one of the way to attract more visitors to your blog. We actually can install a wordpress popular posts plugin to display our most popular posts, but if you don’t want to use plugin, you can simply hack your wordpress theme to do it manually.

Copy and paste the following code to the sidebar.php file, if you want to change the number of displayed posts, simply change the “5″ to your desired number.

<h2>Popular Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5");
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>" title="<?php echo $title ?>">
<?php echo $title ?></a> {<?php echo $commentcount ?>}</li>
<?php } } ?>
</ul>

Please note that the 5 most popular posts displayed is basing on the 5 most commented posts .

How to Prevent Images on Posts from Being Too Large

13. September 2009 in WordPress Tips | 0 Comments
Tags: , , ,

Everyone will put images on the posts, sometimes the images displayed on the posts looks too large and may be break your current theme layout, it isn’t nice. There is a solution to avoid this problem with the help of adding the following code to your style.css file.

What you need to do is open style.css file, and simply copy and paste the following code to this file.

.post img {
max-width: 540px; /* Adjust this value according to your content area size*/
height: auto;
}

Most wordpress themes display posts content within a tag. In case this doesn’t work, you can try another way as below.

.maxwidth img {
max-width: 540px; /* Adjust this value according to your content area size*/
height: auto;
}

Use class=”maxwidth” on your IMG element. For example,

<img src="”../images/abc.jpg”" class="maxwidth" />

After The Dateline – Allows Bloggers to Check Spelling of Their Posts

13. September 2009 in WordPress Plugins | 0 Comments
Tags: ,

After The Dateline just like a MS Word spell checker, it can be used in wordpress as plugin that allows bloggers to check spelling of their posts. They use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

So how to get started? Register for an API key and download a plugin. Once installed, After the Deadline adds a button that lets you check spelling, style, and grammar in supported applications.

How to Disable WordPress AutoSave Function

13. September 2009 in WordPress Tips | 0 Comments
Tags: , , ,

Everyone should know wordpress has AutoSave function, some people really don’t like it, including me because it doesn’t help me too much. To disable AutoSave function of wordpress, simply copy and paste the following code to the function.php file. In case you want to enable again, you can just delete the code.

function disableAutoSave() {
wp_deregister_script('autosave');
}
add_action('wp_print_scripts', 'disableAutoSave');
Page 5 of 512345