If you’re like me, and prefer to load all styles and scripts using wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script there’s quite an elegant way to do this in WordPress. First, in your functions.php (or however you organise theme files) create an array of the conditional scripts you wish to include: $conditional_scripts …
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The product of today’s messing around with WordPress custom taxonomies in a bid to finish a client website – I needed to generate a navigation based on categories stored in a custom taxonomy. Here’s the gist of it: function displayTaxonomyNav($taxonomy, $baseURL) { $output = NULL; $rangeNames = get_terms($taxonomy, ‘orderby=id&hide_empty=0’); foreach($rangeNames …
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This really did my head in for a while today! I thought it would be as simple as it is to find related posts, but nope, it’s a wee bit more involved. The scenario I have a custom post type set up for products, along with a custom …
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To add recent posts navigation to your WordPress blog, simple add the following code to sidebar.php. <h2>Recent Posts</h2> <nav id=”navigation-recent”> <ul> <?php $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(5); foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){ $date = date(“M d, Y”,strtotime($recent[“post_date”])); echo ‘<li><a href=”‘ . get_permalink($recent[“ID”]) . ‘” title=”Look ‘.$recent[“post_title”].'” >’ . $recent[“post_title”].'</a> ‘.$date.'</li>’; …
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If you would like to customise your WordPress admin pages these functions are an excellent start. In this little tutorial we’ll look at customising the WordPress logo in the WordPress admin area, editing the WordPress admin footer to include your own company name and also customising the “Howdy” …
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