Add More Details to the Previous Post Link
When you load up the latest post on a properly designed WordPress site, you should see a link for the previous post somewhere on the page. It usually appears right…
Tag: functions.php
Add Word Count to Single Posts in WordPress
This is just a quick little snippet to display a word count on the single post page in WordPress. Since it requires being placed within the loop, you can actually…
Adding a Class to Sub-Menu Parent Items in WordPress
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
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…