WordPress Snippets

Adding Custom Pinterest Button In Your WordPress Website

June 17, 2019 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Using the following snippet will let you add custom pinterest button in your WordPress website.

Add to your header above the body tag.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>

1	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>

Edit and add to your page where you want your button to appear.

<div class="socialIcon-box"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain.com&media=<?php bloginfo(template_directory); ?>/images/youricon.png&description=Site%20Name%20and%20Description" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal"><img src="<?php bloginfo(template_directory); ?>/images/youricon.png" /></a></div>

<div class="socialIcon-box"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain.com&media=<?php bloginfo(template_directory); ?>/images/youricon.png&description=Site%20Name%20and%20Description" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal"><img src="<?php bloginfo(template_directory); ?>/images/youricon.png" /></a></div>

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How To Log-in A WordPress User Programmatically

June 10, 2019 By Editorial Staff in Featured, WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Drastically while you build-up a huge WordPress website BUT if you (in case) forget to consider strongly on how a user can log-in programmatically then what happens. Well, to ease your this mental job, using the following snippet in your theme’s functions.php file, you will be able to log-in a WordPress user programmatically.

function auto_login( $user ) {
    $username = $user;
    if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
        $user = get_userdatabylogin( $username );
        $user_id = $user->ID;
        wp_set_current_user( $user_id, $user_login );
        wp_set_auth_cookie( $user_id );
        do_action( 'wp_login', $user_login );
    }
}
Once done, now to log-in a user, just simply do the following:
auto_login( 'admin' )

function auto_login( $user ) {

$username = $user;

if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {

$user = get_userdatabylogin( $username );

$user_id = $user->ID;

wp_set_current_user( $user_id, $user_login );

wp_set_auth_cookie( $user_id );

do_action( 'wp_login', $user_login );

}

Once done, now to log-in a user, just simply do the following:

auto_login( 'admin' )

Snippet Source/Credit: emoticode

How To Create Custom Post Type FAQ

June 3, 2019 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

The following snippet will let you create custom post type FAQ.

<?php
add_action('init', 'custom_faqs');
function custom_faqs()
{
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('faqs', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('faq', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'FAQ'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New FAQ'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit FAQ'),
    'new_item' => __('New FAQ'),
    'view_item' => __('View FAQ'),
    'search_items' => __('Search FAQs'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No FAQs found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No FAQs found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => '',
    'menu_name' => 'FAQ'
  );
  $args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'show_in_menu' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => true,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'has_archive' => true,
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'menu_position' => 5,
    'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail','excerpt','custom-fields')
  );
  register_post_type('faqs',$args);
}
//add filter to ensure the text faq, or faq, is displayed when user updates a faq
add_filter('post_updated_messages', 'faq_updated_messages');
function faq_updated_messages( $messages ) {
  global $post, $post_ID;
  $messages['faqs'] = array(
    0 => '', // Unused. Messages start at index 1.
    1 => sprintf( __('FAQ updated. <a href="%s">View FAQ</a>'), esc_url( get_permalink($post_ID) ) ),
    2 => __('Custom field updated.'),
    3 => __('Custom field deleted.'),
    4 => __('FAQ updated.'),
    /* translators: %s: date and time of the revision */
    5 => isset($_GET['revision']) ? sprintf( __('FAQ restored to revision from %s'), wp_post_revision_title( (int) $_GET['revision'], false ) ) : false,
    6 => sprintf( __('FAQ published. <a href="%s">View FAQ</a>'), esc_url( get_permalink($post_ID) ) ),
    7 => __('FAQ saved.'),
    8 => sprintf( __('FAQ submitted. <a target="_blank" href="%s">Preview FAQ</a>'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink($post_ID) ) ) ),
    9 => sprintf( __('FAQ scheduled for: <strong>%1$s</strong>. <a target="_blank" href="%2$s">Preview FAQ</a>'),
      // translators: Publish box date format, see http://php.net/date
      date_i18n( __( 'M j, Y @ G:i' ), strtotime( $post->post_date ) ), esc_url( get_permalink($post_ID) ) ),
    10 => sprintf( __('FAQ draft updated. <a target="_blank" href="%s">Preview FAQ</a>'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink($post_ID) ) ) ),
  );
  return $messages;
}
//display contextual help for faqs
add_action( 'contextual_help', 'faq_add_help_text', 10, 3 );
function faq_add_help_text($contextual_help, $screen_id, $screen) {
  //$contextual_help .= var_dump($screen); // use this to help determine $screen->id
  if ('faqs' == $screen->id ) {
    $contextual_help =
      '<p>' . __('Things to remember when adding or editing a FAQ:') . '</p>' .
      '<ul>' .
      '<li>' . __('Specify the correct topic such as Orders. Create a new topic if necessary.') . '</li>' .
      '<li>' . __('Specify a custom excerpt - a short overview of the FAQ') . '</li>' .
      '</ul>' .
      '<p>' . __('Choose related posts using the MicroKids Related Posts Plugin below the FAQ') . '</p>' .
      '<ul>' .
      '<li>' . __('Click the Save button to save an FAQ as a draft') . '</li>' .
      '<li>' . __('Click publish to publish an FAQ. ') . '</li>' .
      '</ul></p>';
  } elseif ( 'edit-faqs' == $screen->id ) {
    $contextual_help =
      '<p>' . __('This is the list of all current FAQs in published or draft form. Hover over an FAQ and click Edit to edit, or click on the title of the FAQ to edit.') . '</p>' ;
  }
  return $contextual_help;
}
function my_rewrite_flush() {
  custom_faqs();
  flush_rewrite_rules();
}
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'my_rewrite_flush');
//hook into the init action and call create_FAQ_taxonomies when it fires
add_action( 'init', 'create_faq_taxonomies', 0 );
//create two taxonomies, genres and writers for the post type "FAQ"
function create_faq_taxonomies()
{
  // Add new taxonomy, make it hierarchical (like categories)
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x( 'topics', 'taxonomy general name' ),
    'singular_name' => _x( 'topic', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
    'search_items' =>  __( 'Search Topics' ),
    'all_items' => __( 'All Topics' ),
    'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Topic' ),
    'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Topic:' ),
    'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Topic' ),
    'update_item' => __( 'Update Topic' ),
    'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Topic' ),
    'new_item_name' => __( 'New Topic Name' ),
    'menu_name' => __( 'Topics' ),
  );
  register_taxonomy('topic',array('faqs'), array(
    'hierarchical' => true,
    'labels' => $labels,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'topic' ),
  ));
}
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<?php

add_action('init', 'custom_faqs');

function custom_faqs()

{

$labels = array(

'name' => _x('faqs', 'post type general name'),

'singular_name' => _x('faq', 'post type singular name'),

'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'FAQ'),

'add_new_item' => __('Add New FAQ'),

'edit_item' => __('Edit FAQ'),

'new_item' => __('New FAQ'),

'view_item' => __('View FAQ'),

'search_items' => __('Search FAQs'),

'not_found' => __('No FAQs found'),

'not_found_in_trash' => __('No FAQs found in Trash'),

'parent_item_colon' => '',

'menu_name' => 'FAQ'

);

$args = array(

'labels' => $labels,

'public' => true,

'publicly_queryable' => true,

'show_ui' => true,

'show_in_menu' => true,

'query_var' => true,

'rewrite' => true,

'capability_type' => 'post',

'has_archive' => true,

'hierarchical' => false,

'menu_position' => 5,

'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail','excerpt','custom-fields')

);

register_post_type('faqs',$args);

}

//add filter to ensure the text faq, or faq, is displayed when user updates a faq

add_filter('post_updated_messages', 'faq_updated_messages');

function faq_updated_messages( $messages ) {

global $post, $post_ID;

$messages['faqs'] = array(

0 => '', // Unused. Messages start at index 1.

1 => sprintf( __('FAQ updated. <a href="%s">View FAQ</a>'), esc_url( get_permalink($post_ID) ) ),

2 => __('Custom field updated.'),

3 => __('Custom field deleted.'),

4 => __('FAQ updated.'),

/* translators: %s: date and time of the revision */

5 => isset($_GET['revision']) ? sprintf( __('FAQ restored to revision from %s'), wp_post_revision_title( (int) $_GET['revision'], false ) ) : false,

6 => sprintf( __('FAQ published. <a href="%s">View FAQ</a>'), esc_url( get_permalink($post_ID) ) ),

7 => __('FAQ saved.'),

8 => sprintf( __('FAQ submitted. <a target="_blank" href="%s">Preview FAQ</a>'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink($post_ID) ) ) ),

9 => sprintf( __('FAQ scheduled for: <strong>%1$s</strong>. <a target="_blank" href="%2$s">Preview FAQ</a>'),

// translators: Publish box date format, see http://php.net/date

date_i18n( __( 'M j, Y @ G:i' ), strtotime( $post->post_date ) ), esc_url( get_permalink($post_ID) ) ),

10 => sprintf( __('FAQ draft updated. <a target="_blank" href="%s">Preview FAQ</a>'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink($post_ID) ) ) ),

);

return $messages;

}

//display contextual help for faqs

add_action( 'contextual_help', 'faq_add_help_text', 10, 3 );

function faq_add_help_text($contextual_help, $screen_id, $screen) {

//$contextual_help .= var_dump($screen); // use this to help determine $screen->id

if ('faqs' == $screen->id ) {

$contextual_help =

'<p>' . __('Things to remember when adding or editing a FAQ:') . '</p>' .

'<ul>' .

'<li>' . __('Specify the correct topic such as Orders. Create a new topic if necessary.') . '</li>' .

'<li>' . __('Specify a custom excerpt - a short overview of the FAQ') . '</li>' .

'</ul>' .

'<p>' . __('Choose related posts using the MicroKids Related Posts Plugin below the FAQ') . '</p>' .

'<ul>' .

'<li>' . __('Click the Save button to save an FAQ as a draft') . '</li>' .

'<li>' . __('Click publish to publish an FAQ. ') . '</li>' .

'</ul></p>';

} elseif ( 'edit-faqs' == $screen->id ) {

$contextual_help =

'<p>' . __('This is the list of all current FAQs in published or draft form. Hover over an FAQ and click Edit to edit, or click on the title of the FAQ to edit.') . '</p>' ;

}

return $contextual_help;

}

function my_rewrite_flush() {

custom_faqs();

flush_rewrite_rules();

}

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'my_rewrite_flush');

//hook into the init action and call create_FAQ_taxonomies when it fires

add_action( 'init', 'create_faq_taxonomies', 0 );

//create two taxonomies, genres and writers for the post type "FAQ"

function create_faq_taxonomies()

{

// Add new taxonomy, make it hierarchical (like categories)

$labels = array(

'name' => _x( 'topics', 'taxonomy general name' ),

'singular_name' => _x( 'topic', 'taxonomy singular name' ),

'search_items' => __( 'Search Topics' ),

'all_items' => __( 'All Topics' ),

'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Topic' ),

'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Topic:' ),

'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Topic' ),

'update_item' => __( 'Update Topic' ),

'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Topic' ),

'new_item_name' => __( 'New Topic Name' ),

'menu_name' => __( 'Topics' ),

);

register_taxonomy('topic',array('faqs'), array(

'hierarchical' => true,

'labels' => $labels,

'show_ui' => true,

'query_var' => true,

'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'topic' ),

));

}

Snippet Source/Credit: rentageekmom.com

How To Use LESS In WordPress

May 15, 2019 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

With the help of following snippet, you will be able to use LESS in WordPress.

/** START - ADD LESS TO WORDPRESS - http://eckstein.id.au  **/
add_action( 'wp_head' , 'itsb_lesscss' );
function itsb_lesscss() {
?>
     <link rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="<?php echo bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-content/mu-plugins/style.less">
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/less.js/1.3.0/less-1.3.0.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<?php
}
/** END - ADD LESS TO WORDPRESS  **/

/** START - ADD LESS TO WORDPRESS - http://eckstein.id.au **/

add_action( 'wp_head' , 'itsb_lesscss' );

function itsb_lesscss() {

<?php

}

/** END - ADD LESS TO WORDPRESS **/

Snippet Source/Credit: eckstein.id.au

How To Remove Default Author Profile Fields In WordPress

May 8, 2019 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

With the help of following snippet, you will be able to remove default author profile fields in WordPress.

add_filter('user_contactmethods','hide_profile_fields',10,1);
function hide_profile_fields( $contactmethods ) {
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
unset($contactmethods['yim']);
return $contactmethods;
}

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

function hide_profile_fields( $contactmethods ) {

unset($contactmethods['aim']);

unset($contactmethods['jabber']);

unset($contactmethods['yim']);

return $contactmethods;

}

Snippet Source/Credit: Snipplr

Redirecting Users To A Random Post In WordPress

May 1, 2019 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 redirect users to a random post in WordPress.

// set arguments for get_posts()
$args = array(
    'numberposts' => 1,
    'orderby' => 'rand'
);
// get a random post from the database
$my_random_post = get_posts ( $args );
// process the database request through a foreach loop
foreach ( $my_random_post as $post ) {
  // redirect the user to the random post
  wp_redirect ( get_permalink ( $post->ID ) );
  exit;
}

// set arguments for get_posts()

$args = array(

'numberposts' => 1,

'orderby' => 'rand'

);

// get a random post from the database

$my_random_post = get_posts ( $args );

// process the database request through a foreach loop

foreach ( $my_random_post as $post ) {

// redirect the user to the random post

wp_redirect ( get_permalink ( $post->ID ) );

exit;

}

Snippet Source/Credit: Smashing Magazine

How To Disable Post Revision In WordPress

April 24, 2019 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code, Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Simply add the following snippet to your theme’s wp-config.php file and you will be able to disable WordPress post revision.

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

1	define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

Snippet source/Credit: lesterchan.net

How To Restrict WP Admin Access To Certain Users

April 17, 2019 By Editorial Staff in Featured, WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

Security wise, you do wish to restrict the access of WP Admin area to certain users only. While, you can achieve this by going onto your site’s cPanel area but thanks to snippet below, with adding it to your theme’s functions.php file of your theme, you will be able to achieve this.

function restrict_access_admin_panel(){
                global $current_user;
                get_currentuserinfo();
	if (
			// Look for the presence of /wp-admin/ in the url
			stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/wp-admin/') !== false
			&&
			// Allow calls to async-upload.php
			stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'async-upload.php') == false
			&&
			// Allow calls to admin-ajax.php
			stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'admin-ajax.php') == false
		) {
				// Does the current user fail the required capability level?
                if (!current_user_can('activate_plugins')) {
                        wp_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') );
                        exit;
                }
			}
        }
        add_action('admin_init', 'restrict_access_admin_panel', 1);

function restrict_access_admin_panel(){

global $current_user;

get_currentuserinfo();

if (

// Look for the presence of /wp-admin/ in the url

stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/wp-admin/') !== false

// Allow calls to async-upload.php

stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'async-upload.php') == false

// Allow calls to admin-ajax.php

stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'admin-ajax.php') == false

) {

// Does the current user fail the required capability level?

if (!current_user_can('activate_plugins')) {

wp_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') );

exit;

}

add_action('admin_init', 'restrict_access_admin_panel', 1);

Snippet Source/Credit: WordPress Codex

How To Render Your Twitter Followers Count In Your WordPress Blog

April 10, 2019 By Editorial Staff in 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 render your Twitter followers count. Also, remember to replace “planetabhi” with your own Twitter screen name.

function my_followers_count($screen_name = 'planetabhi'){
	$key = 'my_followers_count_' . $screen_name;
	// Let's see if we have a cached version
	$followers_count = get_transient($key);
	if ($followers_count !== false)
		return $followers_count;
	else
	{
		// If there's no cached version we ask Twitter
		$response = wp_remote_get("http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name={$screen_name}");
		if (is_wp_error($response))
		{
			// In case Twitter is down we return the last successful count
			return get_option($key);
		}
		else
		{
			// If everything's okay, parse the body and json_decode it
			$json = json_decode(wp_remote_retrieve_body($response));
			$count = $json->followers_count;
			// Store the result in a transient, expires after 1 day
			// Also store it as the last successful using update_option
			set_transient($key, $count, 60*60*24);
			update_option($key, $count);
			return $count;
		}
	}
}
echo "I have " . my_followers_count('planetabhi') . " followers";

function my_followers_count($screen_name = 'planetabhi'){

$key = 'my_followers_count_' . $screen_name;

// Let's see if we have a cached version

$followers_count = get_transient($key);

if ($followers_count !== false)

return $followers_count;

else

{

// If there's no cached version we ask Twitter

$response = wp_remote_get("http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name={$screen_name}");

if (is_wp_error($response))

{

// In case Twitter is down we return the last successful count

return get_option($key);

}

else

{

// If everything's okay, parse the body and json_decode it

$json = json_decode(wp_remote_retrieve_body($response));

$count = $json->followers_count;

// Store the result in a transient, expires after 1 day

// Also store it as the last successful using update_option

set_transient($key, $count, 60*60*24);

update_option($key, $count);

return $count;

}

echo "I have " . my_followers_count('planetabhi') . " followers";

Snippet Source/Credit: Snipplr

How To Load Content Externally In WordPress

April 8, 2019 By Editorial Staff in WordPress No Comments Tags: Code Snippet, Snippet, WordPress, WordPress Snippet, WordPress Snippets

The following snippet will let you load content externally in WordPress.

require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-load.php' );

1	require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-load.php' );

Snippet Source/Credit: Snipplr

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