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 discovered that WordPress 3.3 actually has a similar core function called wp_trim_words(). The function works like so:

If you’ve written a long post, WordPress provides the quicktag so you can divide it into multiple pages. All you need to do is make sure that the theme you are using has included the wp_link_pages() function somewhere in the single post/page template. The function works perfectly, except when it comes to wanting to [...]

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 function that you can add to your functions.php file: /** * Display time since post was published * * @uses human_time_diff() Return time difference in [...]

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 customize exactly what appears when people share your page on Google+. You can read more about the requirements at http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/. Here is a quick snippet [...]

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 this information without querying the database directly but I found a simple alternative using core WP functions. I’m even going to show you how to [...]

I know, I know. There are already quite a few responsive grid boilerplates out there. But they didn’t do exactly what I needed so I decided to create my own. I just launched the site today so head on over to http://gridiculo.us to check it out and learn more about it. Here are some of [...]

I was working on a test site on WordPress.com yesterday and I noticed a Debug button in the admin bar. Clicked on it and some awesome info appeared that was extremely helpful with testing out the theme. Thankfully, the peeps at WP decided to release this tool as a plugin so everyone can take advantage [...]

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. All you need to do is include a little call to the window useragent to test if the browser being used is an iOS browser. [...]

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 that would add breadcrumbs to your WordPress theme styled with CSS from Twitter Bootstrap. The following code snippet needs to be added to the functions.php [...]

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. I discussed changing the length and the trailing elipses using filters in my article Quick & Easy Excerpt Mods Coming in WordPress 2.9. Recently, a design [...]

One of the most important steps to creating a great website is making sure that it’s optimized. And a great way to do just that is to gather all of your images together into one CSS sprite. That way, only one HTTP request is needed to fetch all of your images which in turn will [...]

One of the most important steps to creating a great website is making sure that it’s optimized. And a great way to do just that is to gather all of your images together into one CSS sprite. That way, only one HTTP request is needed to fetch all of your images which in turn will [...]

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 view after the user was created that only included the new user. Now it redirects back to the full user list, though it’s actually trying [...]

I had someone ask me how to do this the other day and I didn’t know how. But after reading through some of the WordPress Codex I was able to figure it out. To exclude specific categories from your RSS feed just add the following code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file. function myFeedExcluder($query) { [...]

If you’ve messed around with CSS3 you have probably seen some of the new pseudo classes pop up here and there. An interesting one that I just started to use is :target. A full explanation of what it does can be found on the W3 site but for the purposes of this tutorial, we will [...]