Category: WordPress (Page 13 of 17)

Category Archive: WordPress

Posts about WordPress

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Set attachment as featured image

Here’s how to set the first attachment as the featured image for posts in WordPress. This is useful for User Submitted Posts, which attaches uploaded images to each submitted post.

Disable or customize WP read more link

Quick snippet for customizing or disabling the WordPress “read more” link for the_excerpt().

Replace content in WordPress header.php

Here’s how to filter content in WordPress’ header.php template file using PHP.

Require user login for any plugin

Here’s a quick trick to require user-login for any plugin. For example, if you want users to be able to use your chat plugin only if they are logged in. Here’s how..

Add titles to previous_post_link & next_post_link

Here’s a quick way to include a title in previous_post_link() and next_post_link().

Display category name in WordPress

Here are two snippets for displaying the category name and displaying the category link in WordPress.

Display performance stats in WordPress

Here is how to display the page-generation time based on PHP and MySQL.

Two interesting WordPress infographics

Here are a couple of interesting infographics for WordPress. Interesting to get a larger view of the WP universe :)

Content negotiation for WordPress

Quick PHP script for automatically selecting the best content type based on what the browser accepts. Works as-is for WordPress, or is easily modified to work with any PHP page.

Private notes and members-only content

Two cool tricks today, shortcodes to display private notes and members-only content.

Shortcode for encoded email address

One way to help reduce spam is to encode your email address whenever displaying publicly. Here is a function that will do just that: display an encoded version of whatever email address you specify.