Useful WordPress Stuff

I’m constantly looking and re looking for various tiny tricks and tips I’ve used over the years on multiple WordPress powered websites. I’ve grown sick of trying to remember which sites, and so I’ve spent a few hours compiling this list. This list is primarily for my own use, but if you should find it helpful… then knock yourself out   This list will definitely be expanding so I can use it for a one-stop-shop for every website I build.

But for now folks.. I hope you find this stuff useful.

I’d love to hear from people if anyone uses these… so leave a comment!

You plum!

Individual Dynamic Link To A Post / Page:
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(1); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title(1); ?></a>
This will output a single dynamic link to a post or a page.

Individual Dynamic Link To A Category:
<a href="<?php echo get_category_link(1); ?>"><?php echo get_cat_name(1); ?></a>
This will output a single dynamic link to a category.

Front End Delete Post Link For Authorised Users

If you don’t have a functions.php in your WordPress theme, create ‘functions.php’ and add this function to it.

function wp_delete_post_link($link = 'Delete This', $before = '', $after = '')
{
global $post;
if ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post->ID ) )
return;
} else {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ) )
return;
}
$link = "<a onclick=\"return confirm('Are you SURE you want to delete this post/page?')\" href='" . wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('url') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&amp;post=" . $post->ID, 'delete-post_' . $post->ID) . "'>".$link."</a>";
echo $before . $link . $after;
}
Then add the following into your template within The Loop wherever you wish the delete link to go.
<?php wp_delete_post_link('Delete', ' <strong class="delete">', '</strong> ') ?>

Front End Delete Comment Link

Open ‘comments.php’ and look for the edit comment link which will be something like: <?php edit_comment_link(‘Edit’,’ [ ',' ] ‘); ?> and add the following after it:
<?php if (current_user_can('edit_post', $post->ID)) { ?><strong>[ <a onclick="return confirm('Are you SURE you want to delete this comment?')" href='<?php echo wp_nonce_url("/wp-admin/comment.php?action=deletecomment&amp;c=$comment->comment_ID&amp;_wp_original_http_referer=" . wp_get_referer(), 'delete-comment_' . $comment->comment_ID.""); ?>'>Delete</a> ]</strong><?php } ?>

Get Slug:

You should be able to put the code below into your functions.php… or into the html head of your theme:
<?php
$post_id = get_post($post->ID); // get current post or page
$slug = $post_id->post_name; // define slug as $slug
?>
Then use the following to echo the slug:
<?php echo $slug; ?>

Retrieve Post ID Outside of the Loop

Put this code into your functions.php:
function function_name() {
global $wp_query;
$thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID;
}
Then use the following to echo the Post ID:
<?php echo $post->ID ?>

Sweet CSS

If you check on Google for something like ‘awesome css design’ you’ll find a plethora of information.   So I figured why should I not add a very short blog of my own about the subject.   Here’s only three, but I’ll add another soon.

Simple Art

Studio 7 Designs

Point of Entry

CSS Zen Garden

Most people in the design industry know about CSS Zen Garden.   It’s a website designed to show the power of css design.   There is a set amount of content which never changes, and web developers are invited to send in their own css files to style the website to their own design.

They have no physical access to the site, so they can’t change the content according to their design.   Their design changes the content layout.

It’s a truly excellent site, showcasing some fantastic designing and css skills.     Some of the submissions go for more fancy tricks rather than good design, but even those are decent.

http://www.csszengarden.com