10 tricks to make your WordPress theme stand out
There are a ton of WordPress themes out there these days, so it can be hard to get your theme noticed. The solution? Use the ten tricks listed in this post to make your theme stand out from the crowd.
Create a Tweetmeme “Retweeet” Shortcode
Tweetmeme is a popular service that allow you to display “Retweet” button on your blog posts. Even if the code is easy to integrate on your single.php file, it can be very cool to create a shortcode that you can insert anywhere in your posts.
Function to get tags related to category
Do you ever wanted to be able to get tags related to one (or more) specific category? If yes, I’m pretty sure you’ll be delighted with this very cool WP hacks.
Get all custom fields from a page or a post
Sometimes you may need to get all custom fields from a specific post or page. Thanks to Paul, who contributed to WpRecipes, for sharing a WordPress Hacks that do the job.
10 Really Useful WordPress Code Snippets
There are certain snippets of WordPress code that you seem to end up using over and over again. In this post are ten great snippets that will make coding that bit easier.
Add your own Gravatar to your WordPress theme
This is quite a useful tip that lets you add your own Gravatar to your WordPress blog/theme/site.
Allow title overwrite on your WordPress blog
The the_title(); function allow you to simply display the title of a post or page. Sometimes, you may need to be able to overwrite this function and use a custom title. here is how to do it, using a custom field.
Fetch file through proxy
Running local WordPress stack is common for development purposes. Such environment is quite different from hosting server and one of issues for me was making WordPress fetch RSS feed with Internet access through proxy server.
Choose the sidebar to use, post by post
Who said a blog always have to display the same boring sidebar on each page? Just create a few sidebar files, upload it to your theme directory. This cool code will do the rest!
Create An In-Post (Theme) Options (Meta) Box in WordPress
Creating the options pages is something we’ve touched upon previously here on WPShout, and whilst developing my soon-to-be-released WordPress theme, Biblioteca, I wanted to add some options to the post writing page, and in this post I’m going to be sharing how I did it.
Category Hacks
A number of things you can do with WordPress coding that involve categories in one way or another. Hopefully this will be a helpful guide that you can refer to whenever you’re developing a new theme.
Prevent password reset hacking on your WordPress blog
Since a few hours, a new security loophole has been discovered in WordPress 2.8.X. This problem allow anyone to reset your admin password. Creepy, isn’t it? Don’t panic, just read on to solve the problem.
Include comments in post lists
Many new generation themes, as such as P2 include a nice feature named inline comments. The option of having comments displayed in your index.php file. Let’s see how to do it.
Separating Pings from Comments in WordPress 2.7
A hacks for separating ping backs from comments, it works for only WordPress v2.7+.