Gather Post Stats from Twitter and Facebook
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…
Category: Tutorials
Trim Your Text with wp_trim_words() in WordPress
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,…
A Better wp_link_pages() for WordPress
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
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…
Adding Google+ Meta Tags in WordPress
If you’ve decided to include a Google+ button on your WordPress site, it’s also suggested that you add a few new meta tags to your header so that you can…
Get Latest Contributors in WordPress
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…
Only Add a Script on iOS Devices
I was working on a site that required a small jQuery function to load only if the site was opened on an iOS device, ie. the iPad, iPhone or iPod.…
Breadcrumbs for WordPress with Twitter Bootstrap
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…
Add Class to All Excerpts in WordPress
In WordPress, the post excerpt can be displayed using a function called the_excerpt(). This function has no parameters but it does have some filters which you can hook into.…
Redirect After Adding a New User in WordPress
Since the release of WordPress 3.3, I noticed something that was overlooked when adding a new user in the wp-admin. Before, adding a new user would redirect to a list…