Counting Your WordPress Website Blogroll Links

October 10, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

The following snippet will let you count your WordPress blogroll links.

<?php
$numlinks = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_visible = 'Y'");
if (0 < $numlinks) $numlinks = number_format($numlinks);
echo $numlinks;
?>

<?php

$numlinks = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_visible = 'Y'");

if (0 < $numlinks) $numlinks = number_format($numlinks);

echo $numlinks;

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How To Use WordPress Shortcodes In Theme Files

October 3, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

A person who has got even a little knowledge of WordPress does understand the importance of WordPress shortcodes. While, everyone who are aware of shortcodes, definitely love them out but unluckily, shortcodes by default can be use only in post and page editor area and not in theme files. But, well with the help of this snippet below, you can use a shortcode in a theme file too, all you have to do is to use the do_shortcode() function as shared below.

<?php echo do_shortcode("[your_shortcode]"); ?>

1	<?php echo do_shortcode("[your_shortcode]"); ?>

How To Set A Maximum Word Count On Post Titles

October 1, 2018 By Editorial Staff in Featured, WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Adding the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file, you will be able to set a maximum word count on post titles.

function maxWord($title){
    global $post;
    $title = $post->post_title;
    if (str_word_count($title) >= 10 ) //set this to the maximum number of words
        wp_die( __('Error: your post title is over the maximum word count.') );
}
add_action('publish_post', 'maxWord');

function maxWord($title){

global $post;

$title = $post->post_title;

if (str_word_count($title) >= 10 ) //set this to the maximum number of words

wp_die( __('Error: your post title is over the maximum word count.') );

}

add_action('publish_post', 'maxWord');

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How To Remove Existing Information From WordPress

September 26, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

The following snippet will let you remove existing information from WordPress.

function add_myExtra_ContactMethod( $contactmethods ) {
// Add Twitter
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';
// Add Facebook
$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook';
//Remove Jabber / Google Talk
unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
return $contactmethods;
}
 add_filter('user_contactmethods','add_myExtra_ContactMethod',10,1);

function add_myExtra_ContactMethod( $contactmethods ) {

// Add Twitter

$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';

// Add Facebook

$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook';

//Remove Jabber / Google Talk

unset($contactmethods['jabber']);

return $contactmethods;

}

add_filter('user_contactmethods','add_myExtra_ContactMethod',10,1);

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How To Exclude WordPress Categories On Secondary Front Pages

September 24, 2018 By Editorial Staff in Featured, WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

The following snippet will let you exclude WordPress categories on secondary front pages.

Note: You can change the number “4” below to whichever category you will want to exclude on secondary front pages.

<?php if ( is_home() ) {
    query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=-3");
}
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php if ( is_home() ) {

query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=-3");

}

while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

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How To Get Category Slug In WordPress

September 19, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

The following snippet below will let you get category slug in WordPress.

if(is_category()) {
	$cat = get_query_var('cat');
	$yourcat = get_category($cat);
	echo "the slug is" . $yourcat->slug;
}

if(is_category()) {

$cat = get_query_var('cat');

$yourcat = get_category($cat);

echo "the slug is" . $yourcat->slug;

}

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How To Load jQuery From Google CDN In WordPress

September 17, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Using the following snippet, you will be able to load jQuery from Google CDN in WordPress.

function jquery_cdn() {
   if (!is_admin()) {
      wp_deregister_script('jquery');
      wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js', false, '1.8.3');
      wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
   }
}
add_action('init', 'jquery_cdn');

function jquery_cdn() {

if (!is_admin()) {

wp_deregister_script('jquery');

wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js', false, '1.8.3');

wp_enqueue_script('jquery');

}

add_action('init', 'jquery_cdn');

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How To Define A Minimum Word Count Per Post In WordPress

September 12, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Simply copying and pasting the snippet to your theme’s functions.php file and you will be able to define a minimum word count per post in WordPress.

function minWord($content){
	global $post;
        $num = 100; //set this to the minimum number of words
	$content = $post->post_content;
	if (str_word_count($content) <  $num)
	    wp_die( __('Error: your post is below the minimum word count.') );
}
add_action('publish_post', 'minWord');

function minWord($content){

global $post;

$num = 100; //set this to the minimum number of words

$content = $post->post_content;

if (str_word_count($content) < $num)

wp_die( __('Error: your post is below the minimum word count.') );

}

add_action('publish_post', 'minWord');

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How To Limit WordPress the_content By Words

September 10, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

With the help of snippet below, you will be able to limit WordPress the_content by words.

//Add this function to your functions.php file
function get_news($cat_slug, $limit){
 $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name='.$cat_slug.'&posts_per_page='.$limit);
	$result = "<ul class='news-feed'>";
  	while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
		$result .= '<li class="news-item"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" target="_blank">' . get_the_title() . '</a><p>';
		$result .= apply_filters( 'the_content', wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 15, '&hellip;' ) ) . ' <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" target="_blank" class="read_more"><strong>read more</strong> &raquo;</a>';
		$result .= '</li>';
	endwhile;
  		$result .= '</ul>';
  	return $result;
}
//Usage:
// get company news from the 'news' category with limit of 2 posts
print get_news('news', 2);

//Add this function to your functions.php file

function get_news($cat_slug, $limit){

$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name='.$cat_slug.'&posts_per_page='.$limit);

$result = "<ul class='news-feed'>";

while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();

$result .= '<li class="news-item"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" target="_blank">' . get_the_title() . '</a><p>';

$result .= apply_filters( 'the_content', wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 15, '…' ) ) . ' <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" target="_blank" class="read_more"><strong>read more</strong> »</a>';

$result .= '</li>';

endwhile;

$result .= '</ul>';

return $result;

}

//Usage:

// get company news from the 'news' category with limit of 2 posts

print get_news('news', 2);

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How To Add Theme Style To TinyMCE In WordPress

August 29, 2018 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Using the snippet below you will be able to add theme style to style.css of the theme.

 add_action('init', 'add_style');
function add_style() {
	add_editor_style('style.css');
}

add_action('init', 'add_style');

function add_style() {

add_editor_style('style.css');

}

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