Trim Characters using PHP
August 13, 2012
Aug 13 2012
I had previously written about how you can easily trim your text using a build in WordPress function called wp_trim_words() but sometimes you actually want to trim your text to…
Trim Your Text with wp_trim_words() in WordPress
May 14, 2012
May 14 2012
When I first started putting out Premium themes for WordPress, I create a custom excerpt function that would trim your post content to a certain number of words. Today, I…
Display Time Since Published in WordPress
May 1, 2012
May 01 2012
This is just a little snippet I discovered in the WordPress codex that allows your to display the time since your post was published. I wrote it into a little…
Run a Shortcode Anywhere in WordPress
July 7, 2011
Jul 07 2011
WordPress shortcodes are macro codes that allow you to perform certain actions within the post content. By default they only display on single post pages within the post content. The…
is_child() Conditional Function for WordPress
April 23, 2011
Apr 23 2011
I wrote a little function a while back to Check if a Page is a Child of Another Page in WordPress called is_child(). It used the page ID to return…
Helpful Page Functions for WordPress
April 13, 2011
Apr 13 2011
Over the past month I have been working on a large project that has taken up a lot of my time, but I wanted to quickly share two small functions…
Use jQuery to Replace a Word with a Link
August 9, 2010
Aug 09 2010
If you use a word multiple times on your site and you don’t feel like going through all your posts to replace every instance of it, you can use jQuery…
Using Ajax with WordPress
August 2, 2010
Aug 02 2010
A little while back, I updated Magazine Basic and added the Ajax save function. When I uploaded it to WordPress to await approval, I received some feedback on how I…
Shorten Your Post Titles in WordPress
July 16, 2010
Jul 16 2010
This is not a function that you would need to use often, but I came across a reason to use it recently and I thought it might be a good…
6 Tips to Speed Up jQuery
July 13, 2010
Jul 13 2010
As it stands, jQuery is an amazingly efficient JavaScript framework, but there are a few things that you can do when creating your code that will end up slowing it…