There is always the_excerpt(), but that does some pretty specific stuff (e.g. adding paragraph tags, adding [...], not respect the more comment, use the saved excerpt...). Advanced Excerpt is pretty good at customizing that.
If you want to get real simple though:
<?php
$content = get_the_content();
echo substr(strip_tags($content), 0, 130) . '...';
?>
if ( !empty($q['meta_key']) ) {
$allowed_keys[] = $q['meta_key'];
$allowed_keys[] = 'meta_value';
+ $allowed_keys[] = 'meta_value_num';
}
$q['orderby'] = urldecode($q['orderby']);
$q['orderby'] = addslashes_gpc($q['orderby']); case 'meta_value':
$orderby = "$wpdb->postmeta.meta_value";
break;
+ case 'meta_value_num':
+ $orderby = "$wpdb->postmeta.meta_value+0";
+ break;
default:
$orderby = "$wpdb->posts.post_" . $orderby;
}This is a direct edit to a core file: /wp-includes/query.php Note the plus signs in the above code indicate new lines to add.
A client wanted me to setup a custom field called "Guide Rank" which allowed them to assign #1 - 20 for a list of Bars they were posting about.
After running the posts query I found that the meta_value was being treated as a string and as such the sort order was jumbled:
eg. 1, 10, 2, 3css-tricks.comC 7 , 8 , 9
To get WordPress/MySQL to use "Natural Sort Order" you just need to apply +0 to the field name and it'll be treated as a number (eg. meta_value+0).
So that existing behavior is not interrupted I've just added the new type 'meta_value_num'.
My query line now looks like:
$guide_posts = new WP_Query("cat=12&meta_key=guide_rank&orderby=meta_value_num&order=ASC&showposts=10");Which returns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
This is up for inclusion in the WordPress trunk - so hopefully once it gets applied there should be no need for manually editing the file.
Pre WordPress 3.3 only. Either add this CSS to your CSS file, add all the code to your functions.php file, or make a quick little plugin.
function fb_move_admin_bar() {
echo '
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin-top: -28px;
padding-bottom: 28px;
}
body.admin-bar #wphead {
padding-top: 0;
}
body.admin-bar #footer {
padding-bottom: 28px;
}
#wpadminbar {
top: auto !important;
bottom: 0;
}
#wpadminbar .quicklinks .menupop ul {
bottom: 28px;
}
</style>';
}
// on backend area
add_action( 'admin_head', 'fb_move_admin_bar' );
// on frontend area
add_action( 'wp_head', 'fb_move_admin_bar' );
Archives.php only shows content of type 'post', but you can alter it to include custom post types. Add this filter to your functions.php file:
function namespace_add_custom_types( $query ) {
if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {
$query->set( 'post_type', array(
'post', 'your-custom-post-type-here'
));
return $query;
}
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'namespace_add_custom_types' );
<div id="user-details">
<?php
if (is_user_logged_in()) {
$user = wp_get_current_user();
echo ‘Welcome back <strong>’.$user->display_name.‘</strong> !’;
} else { ?>
Please <strong><?php wp_loginout(); ?></strong>
or <a href="<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-login.php?action=register"> <strong>Register</strong></a>
<?php } ?>
</div>Uses WordPress functions and queries to pull user information, and to display the login/logout/register links.
WordPress lacks a wp_list_posts() function that might seem logical go with the robust and useful wp_list_pages() function. You can simulate it though, by using the get_posts() function and running your own loop through the results.
The parameters for get_posts() below are just examples, replace with your needs.
<ul>
<?php
$lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand&cat=-52');
foreach($lastposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post); ?>
<li<?php if ( $post->ID == $wp_query->post->ID ) { echo ' class="current"'; } else {} ?>>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>wp_list_pages() also has the feature of adding a class name of "current_page_item" to the list element when that page is the active one. Notice the opening list tag above, which replicates that functionality by seeing if the ID from the current query matches the ID from the current iteration of the loop.
For your functions.php file or a functionality plugin:
function html5_insert_image($html, $id, $caption, $title, $align, $url) {
$html5 = "<figure id='post-$id media-$id' class='align-$align'>";
$html5 .= "<img src='$url' alt='$title' />";
if ($caption) {
$html5 .= "<figcaption>$caption</figcaption>";
}
$html5 .= "</figure>";
return $html5;
}
add_filter( 'image_send_to_editor', 'html5_insert_image', 10, 9 );It also takes what you enter as a caption and inserts it within the <figure> tag as a <figcaption>. Example inserted code:
<figure id='post-18838 media-18838' class='align-none'>
<img src='http://youresite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/image.png' alt='Title of image'>
<figcaption>Caption for image</figcaption>
</figure>