WereWP » tutorial http://werewp.com Daily WordPress news Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Discover Custom user taxonomies with Justin Tadlock http://werewp.com/tutorials/discover-custom-user-taxonomies-with-justin-tadlock/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/discover-custom-user-taxonomies-with-justin-tadlock/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:35:07 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1588 templatic
]]> When WordPress 2.8 came out, we all discover the wonders of taxonomies, and how we could add extra information to our posts and custom post types really easily.

However, it turns out taxonomies have existed for a long time and are not just available for posts, but for all object types. I for one had no idea about this!

Luckily, Justin Tadlock is here! In this tutorial, he covers the basics and examples of what you can do with custom user taxonomies in WordPress; a must-read, as with all tutorials from Justin.

Read the tutorial here: Custom user taxonomies in WordPress.

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/discover-custom-user-taxonomies-with-justin-tadlock/feed/ 0 How to: exclude Categories from your RSS Feed http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-exclude-categories-from-your-rss-feed/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-exclude-categories-from-your-rss-feed/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:23:13 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1493 templatic
]]> WPvibe proposes a quick way to exclude categories from your RSS feed, and thus display them only on your site, and not for your RSS subscribers.

Careful though, if you use Feedburner, this modification will apply only to your WordPress feed (http://mywordpresssite.com/feed/)

How to Exclude Categories from your RSS Feed.

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-exclude-categories-from-your-rss-feed/feed/ 2 How to: always show the new WordPress admin bar http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-always-show-the-new-wordpress-admin-bar/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-always-show-the-new-wordpress-admin-bar/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:32:34 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1485 templatic
]]> Westi proposes a simple way to show the new 3.1 admin bar to all users, and thus have a log in button and a search bar on all pages.

Have a look!

Always show admin bar « follow the white rabbit.

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-always-show-the-new-wordpress-admin-bar/feed/ 0 The history of a WordPress page rendering, by ozh http://werewp.com/tutorials/the-history-of-a-wordpress-page-rendering-by-ozh/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/the-history-of-a-wordpress-page-rendering-by-ozh/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:52:00 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1483 templatic
]]> We have all grown so used to CMS, blogging softwares and the like, we may have forgotten all the magic that happens behind the curtains, on the server side.

Here is a little reminder with a great description and decomposition of how a page request is translated to a MySQL query. Courtesy of ozh, of course. A must-read!

WordPress Query Overview: How a Page Request Is Translated To a MySQL Query – WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org.

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/the-history-of-a-wordpress-page-rendering-by-ozh/feed/ 0 How to: add Tumblr functionnalities to your blog http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tumblr-functionnalities-to-your-blog/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tumblr-functionnalities-to-your-blog/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:44:20 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1470 templatic
]]> A few weeks ago, I introduced the WooTumblog plugin developed by Woothemes and their iPhone application, Express App.

Since this plugin only works with compatible themes, you may have turned down that possibility altogether. However, the Wooteam has made it really easy to adapt your theme to use the plugin. A few lines of code to edit, and you’re ready to micro-blog!

The article below details all the necessary steps to adapt your theme.

How To Create A Tumblr-Like Blog Using WordPress.

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-add-tumblr-functionnalities-to-your-blog/feed/ 0 Let’s update those sidebars http://werewp.com/tutorials/let%e2%80%99s-update-those-sidebars/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/let%e2%80%99s-update-those-sidebars/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:32:08 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1460 templatic
]]> As usual, Jutin Tadlock produces great tutorials to explain us how to use WordPress functions properly.

Today, it is about how to register and use your sidebars: there is a simple way to register and include different sidebars into your theme, much better than what you can find in numerous WordPress themes today.

Head over to the article for a very interesting read!

Sidebars in WordPress

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/let%e2%80%99s-update-those-sidebars/feed/ 0 How to: thank your readers when they comment http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-thank-your-readers-when-they-comment/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-thank-your-readers-when-they-comment/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:55:17 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1402 templatic
]]> When users take the time and effort to add a comment to one of your posts, wouldn’t you like to thank them about it? Here aretwo different methods to thank your users after they commented.

Redirect them to a Thank you page

thank youThe first obvioous solution is to bring them to a new page, where you thank them, and call for further action: keep reading, subscribe via RSS, Like the website on Facebook…

It can be done quite easily by adding a few lines to the functions.php file of your theme. There, replace the URL by the URL of the WordPress page you have created for that purpose.

I would advise you to create a custom page thanks to a page template. Thus you can add some more functionalities to this special landing page.

// Redirect to thank you page after commenting
function werewp_thanks_commenting() {
    return 'http://domain.com/thank-you';
}
add_action('comment_post_redirect', 'werewp_thanks_commenting');

You can have a look at the example of Yoast, and his thank you page.

Send them an email to get in touch with them

As for everything about WordPress, there is always a plugin for that!

Simply install Thank me Later, customize the message you want to send, and you are done!

Do you use one of these methods on your blog? Do you have other ideas to thank people who take the time to comment on your blog? Share it with us!

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-thank-your-readers-when-they-comment/feed/ 1 How to: add Like button to WordPress pages http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-add-like-button-to-wordpress-pages/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-add-like-button-to-wordpress-pages/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:49:18 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1418 templatic
]]> In a comment on my older post explaining how to integrate Facebook Like button into your WordPress theme, Mike was asking how to add the button into pages, instead of posts like I had explained. In that post I will propose a solution to solve that issue.

The issue with the previous tutorial was with the code included in the header: it creates custom metadata for all posts, but not for pages. In order to address that problem, we simply have to add one more condition to the header:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<?php if (have_posts()):while(have_posts()):the_post();endwhile;endif;?>
<!-- Facebook Opengraph -->
	<meta property="fb:app_id" content="your_app_id" />
	<meta property="fb:admins" content="your_admin_id" />
	<meta property="og:url" content="<?php the_permalink() ?>"/>
<?php if (is_single()) { ?>
	<meta property="og:title" content="<?php single_post_title(''); ?>" />
	<meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt($post->ID)); ?>" />
	<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
	<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_thumb_url( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ) ) ?>" />
<?php } elseif (is_page()) { ?>
	<meta property="og:title" content="<?php single_post_title(''); ?>" />
	<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
	<meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo(get_post_meta($post->ID, "metadescription", true)); ?>" />
	<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo(get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumburl", true)); ?>" />
<?php } else { ?>
	<meta property="og:site_name" content="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" />
	<meta property="og:description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
	<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
	<meta property="og:image" content="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/path/to-your/logo.jpg" />
<?php } ?>

This solution makes use of the custom fields which allow you to add metadata into each post or page. It means that you will have to specifyeach metadata manually for each page, but that’s something you should already be doing for the metadescriptions of your pages anyway! ;)

Fill in the metadata in your admin panel

The custom field panel should appear at the bottom of your edit panel y default. If not, check the box in the screen options and the panel should appear. Then, you only have to fill in the info like I have done on the screenshot below.

The key name you use for each value only depends on what you set in the header. In our case, I have used “metadescription” for the description and “thumburl” for the image path.

Another way of handling images

As you may have seen on the code snippet above, there is a different way of creating the image thumbnail for posts and for pages. You can in fact use either of these techniques; one uses the_post_thumbnail function introduced with WordPress 2.9, the other makes use of the custom fields.

  • the_post_thumbnail
<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_thumb_url( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ) ) ?>" />
  • custom fields
<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo(get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumburl", true)); ?>" />

And voilà !

That should be it. No need to worry about pages anymore. I would furthermore suggest you to use the same technique to define custom meta descriptions and keywords for each of your pages. That can help your SEO to have unique descriptions for each page.

Of course, if you know of another method, do not hesitate to let me know!

]]> http://werewp.com/tutorials/how-to-add-like-button-to-wordpress-pages/feed/ 12 How To Remove WordPress Admin Bar http://werewp.com/plugins/how-to-remove-wordpress-admin-bar/ http://werewp.com/plugins/how-to-remove-wordpress-admin-bar/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:18:11 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1415 templatic
]]> With the upcoming release of WordPress 3.1, a new feature will be added to WordPress, for admins to be able to edit and interact with their site directly from the front-end. This admin bar will be placed at the top of the website, and will provide quick links to the admin menus directly from the site.

While I am not a big fan of this feature, it seems the WordPress team has decided it was worth including into the core engine, maybe as a first step towards a front-end editor.

In my opinion, this should have been available as a plugin, or rather as a core plugin, since the dev team planned to develop several plugins themselves and insure their maintenance.

That’s why I will be looking for a way to disable this admin bar as soon as 3.1 will come out. Luckily , OZH has already provided us with a plugin to disable this bar.

How To Remove WordPress’ Admin Bar « planetOzh.

Of course, this code he provides us can be included into your functions.php directly.

And you, what do you think of that admin bar? Will you be using it?

]]> http://werewp.com/plugins/how-to-remove-wordpress-admin-bar/feed/ 2 Custom Tweet Button for WordPress http://werewp.com/tutorials/custom-tweet-button-for-wordpress/ http://werewp.com/tutorials/custom-tweet-button-for-wordpress/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:46:31 +0000 Jeremy http://www.werewp.com/?p=1410 templatic
]]> Earlier on this blog, we have seen how to add a twitter dialog box on your blog. This was achieved using the @anywhere library from Twitter. In this article, Nicolas Gallagher shows us how to integrate a Twitter tweet button, with the very same features that the official button has, plus some more!

If you feel comfortable playing a bit with your theme’s code, this method is for you: it will allow to have much more power over the display and the features of the twitter button on your blog.

Read the article on Nicolas’ Blog >>

(via digwp.com)

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