Adding a Class to Sub-Menu Parent Items in WordPress
November 21, 2012
Nov 21 2012
I’ve been trying to figure out the best approach to add an indicator to any menu item that contained a sub-menu. Originally, I was using a fancy CSS selector to…
Filtering wp_title() for Better SEO
October 17, 2012
Oct 17 2012
When I last submitted Magazine Basic to the WordPress theme directory, I was told that they no longer allowed direct modification of certain elements within the header.php file. That meant…
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…
Gather Post Stats from Twitter and Facebook
May 30, 2012
May 30 2012
If you’ve included any social buttons on your site, such as the Facebook like button, you can usually see how many people have clicked on it. It’s all done through…
A Better wp_link_pages() for WordPress
May 3, 2012
May 03 2012
If you’ve written a long post, WordPress provides the <!–nextpage–> quicktag so you can divide it into multiple pages. All you need to do is make sure that the theme…
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…
Get Latest Contributors in WordPress
April 24, 2012
Apr 24 2012
If you have a WordPress blog with multiple contributors, you might want to display a list of which ones have been recently active. There isn’t a direct way to gather…
Breadcrumbs for WordPress with Twitter Bootstrap
April 6, 2012
Apr 06 2012
I’m not too sure if breadcrumbs are still popular when it comes to modern websites but I find them pretty useful when navigating around. I put together a simple function…
Log in to WordPress using an Email Address
December 28, 2011
Dec 28 2011
I needed to figure out how to allow a user to use either their username or email address to log into WordPress. It took a bit of rooting around but…
Add a Post’s Category Name to Body Class in WordPress
August 11, 2011
Aug 11 2011
I was working with Digibomb on presswork.me and we needed to add the current post’s category name to the body class in order to style the page differently from the…