If you are like me, you use the Terminal a lot. By default the terminal has case-sensitive tab completion, meaning that if you type ‘s’ and press tab it would not suggest a file/folder called ‘S’.
Luckily, this is quite an easy fix.
Create, or if you already have it; edit, a file called .inputrc in your ‘Home’ folder.
In it write:
set completion-ignore-case On
Restart Terminal and you are done!
This plugin adds a hierarchical navigation to your ‘Pages’ menu. This enables you to quickly find the page you want to edit.
Simply activate it to get it working!
Screenshot:
Turn your WordPress blog into a Tumblresque blog with Post Formats.
Post Formats, introduced with Version 3.1, are meta information that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. The basic idea is to provide a specific method for specifying the display “format” of a post. This replaces the need to use categories to accomplish the same thing, and even more importantly, is portable between themes that support those formats!
When you are coding a theme you usually edit standard files such as index.php, single.php, page.php and so on.
In these files you might have noticed that some variables are available even though you have not declared them. Such a variable would be $post for example.
But which other variables are available?
To find out, take a peek in the function load_template in wp-includes/theme.php. In this function alot of different global variables are declared. Normally, theme files are loaded through template-loader.php and to find out exactly which variables are available in that variable scope might be tricky, but the global variables in this function gives us an idea.
Also, all the variables in the query_vars array are extracted and made available.
A way to make a custom variable available in your files would be to simply declare it in your theme’s functions.php file.
I wrote some simple code so that you could query posts from another blog on your site by using the argument blogid in your query
function blogid_query_set_blog_id( $query ) {
global $wpdb;
if ( isset($query->query_vars['blogid']) && $query->query_vars['blogid'] != $wpdb->blogid ){
$query->original_blog_id = $wpdb->blogid;
$wpdb->set_blog_id( $query->query_vars['blogid'] );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'blogid_query_set_blog_id' );
add_action( 'loop_start', 'blogid_query_set_blog_id' );
function blogid_query_restore_blog_id( $query ) {
global $wpdb;
if ( isset($query->query_vars['blogid']) && isset($query->original_blog_id) )
$wpdb->set_blog_id( $query->original_blog_id );
}
add_action( 'loop_end', 'blogid_query_restore_blog_id' );
function blogid_query_posts_results( $posts, $query ) {
blogid_query_restore_blog_id( $query );
return $posts;
}
add_filter( 'posts_results', 'blogid_query_posts_results', 10, 2 );
So how does it work?
query_posts( 'blogid=3' );
It work pretty well with little, or no testing so far. Please write in the comments if you find any problems with it!
As suggested by Phil Irish, the best way to make browser specific CSS is with a class on the body element rather than separate CSS files or complex hacks.
In his example he used conditional HTML to create multiple body-tags, but with this simple function you can just add the browser name and version to the classes printed by WordPress’ body_class function.
function mytheme_body_class( $class ) {
$arr = array(
'msie',
'firefox',
'webkit',
'opera'
);
$agent = strtolower( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] );
foreach( $arr as $name ) {
if( strpos( $agent, $name ) > -1 ) {
$class[] = $name;
preg_match( '/' . $name . '[\/|\s](\d)/i', $agent, $matches );
if ( $matches[1] )
$class[] = $name . '-' . $matches[1];
return $class;
}
}
return $class;
}
add_filter( 'body_class', 'mytheme_body_class' );
Modify the array if you want to sniff out even more browsers. Simple enough I think!
I do not know why the excerpt meta box is not shown by default when editing pages. I often list pages when using WordPress as a CMS, and I very often use excerpt when doing lists.
So how do you get the excerpt box like posts without using a plugin?
Simply add this code to your functions.php
function mytheme_addbox() {
add_meta_box('postexcerpt', __('Excerpt'), 'post_excerpt_meta_box', 'page', 'normal', 'core');
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'mytheme_addbox' );
Simple enough? Good!
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