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, I…
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Quick & Easy Excerpt Mods Coming in WordPress 2.9
I just stumbled across these two little pieces of code and thought that they might be useful to some people out there who want to mess around with the default…
Retrieve and Display Images from a WordPress Post
I have already mentioned a few ways to do this but I have discovered a few problems with my old code. I have improved this one quite a bit so…
Excerpt and Content Word Limit WordPress Plugin
After I posted Limiting the Number of Words in Your Excerpt or Content in WordPress I thought it would be a good idea to actually create a little plugin for…
Excerpt or Content Word Limit in WordPress: Redux
This is just a revamp of a function I wrote a while back to add the ability to limit the number of words displayed when you call the excerpt or…
Using WP_Query to Fetch Posts in WordPress
I was just putting together a WordPress widget for a client and I came across a small road block. I was using <?php query_post(); ?> to set the loop to…
Removing the Smart Quotes from your WordPress Blog
WordPress is great and I pretty much love everything about it. But it does have it’s little idiosyncrasies that can often give you a headache if you don’t really know…