Remove comments autolinks
If someone leaves a comment containing a url, the url will be automatically transformed to a link by WordPress. This can be useful, but personally I don’t like to see many links in comments, especially when they’re a bit spammy.
This is why I decided, on the latest CWC theme, to remove comments autolink. Doing so is pretty easy, just paste the following into your functions.php file. Once you saved the file, you’ll notice that autolinks have disappeared.
remove_filter('comment_text', 'make_clickable', 9);
» Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-hack-remove-autolinks-in-comments
Automatically notify your users of new posts
If you run a private site using WordPress, then it could be useful to notify your users when a new post is published. The following snippet will get all user emails from your database and will send an email to them automatically when a post is published.
Of course, you shouldn’t use that code on your blog as it does not currently have any unsubscribe option.
function email_members($post_ID) {
global $wpdb;
$usersarray = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_email FROM $wpdb->users;");
$users = implode(",", $usersarray);
mail($users, "New WordPress recipe online!", 'A new recipe have been published on http://www.catswhocode.com');
return $post_ID;
}
add_action('publish_post', 'email_members');
Twitter style “time ago” dates
Displaying dates using the “5 days ago” format is becoming very popular on blogs, thanks to Twitter popularity.
I have seen lots of complicated tutorials to use this format on your WordPress blog, however many people don’t know that WordPress has a built-in function to do the same thing: human_time_diff().
Paste the snippet below anywhere within the loop, and it will display your dates using the “time ago” format.
Posted <?php echo human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' ago'; ?>
» Source: http://www.phpsnippets.info/display-dates-as-time-ago
Display post thumbnail in your RSS feed
Introduced in WordPress 2.9, the the_post_thumbnail() function is very useful to easily add and display a thumbnail attached to a post. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in way to display this thumbnail on your RSS feed.
Happily, the function below will solve this problem. Simply paste it in your functions.php, save it, and the post thumbnail will be automatically displayed on your RSS feed.
function diw_post_thumbnail_feeds($content) {
global $post;
if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
$content = '<div>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID) . '</div>' . $content;
}
return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');
» Source: http://digwp.com/2010/06/show-post-thumbnails-in-feeds/
Block external requests
By default, WordPress does some external requests in order to get the available updates and the WordPress news shown in your dashboard. Personally, I don’t mind them, but I’ve recently had clients who didn’t wanted any external requests. So, I’ve blocked them using this interesting hack.
Simply add the following line to your wp-config.php file:
define('WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL', true);
If you need to allow some external requests, it it easy to create a whitelist, as shown below:
define('WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS', 'rpc.pingomatic.com');
This line of code have to be pasted in wp-config.php as well.
» Source: http://digwp.com/2010/08/pimp-your-wp-config-php/
Easy debug mode
When things go wrong, you can always use the super useful WordPress debug tool, WP_DEBUG. By default, you have to paste a line of code in your wp-config.php to make the debug mode available.
By if you need to easily access the debug mode even when your site is live, you should edit your wp-config.php file and replace
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
by:
if ( isset($_GET['debug']) && $_GET['debug'] == 'debug')
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
Once done, simply add a GET parameter to the url of the page you’d like to debug, as shown below:
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/about?debug=debug
Of course, for obvious security reasons you should replace the name debug by a random word of your choice so no one will ever see your site in debug mode.
» Source: http://yoast.com/wordpress-debug/
Use WordPress shortcode in theme files
WordPress shortcodes are a super easy way to add content such as rss feeds, google maps, galleries and more into your posts or pages. But what about being able to output shortcodes in your theme files?
A built-in function exists, but most people never heard of it. The function is called do_shortcode(). It takes one parameter, the shortcode you’d like to display. I’ve heard you can ad more than one shortcode as a parameter, but I haven’t tried it yet.
do_shortcode('
');
» Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode
Allow upload of more file types
If you ever tried to upload some not so common filetypes, such as Textmate’s .tmCommand to your WordPress blog, you may have experienced an error, because WordPress simply doesn’t want you to upload some other file type.
Fortunately, you can add new file types to WordPress whitelist. Doing so is quite easy, just paste the following piece of code in your functions.php, and you’re done.
Note that file types have to be separated by a pipe.
function addUploadMimes($mimes) {
$mimes = array_merge($mimes, array(
'tmbundle|tmCommand|tmDragCommand|tmSnippet|tmLanguage|tmPreferences' => 'application/octet-stream'
));
return $mimes;
}
add_filter('upload_mimes', 'addUploadMimes');
» Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-tip-allow-upload-of-more-file-types
Google Docs PDF viewer shortcode
Google Docs is definitely the easiest way to read documents in .pdf, .doc or .xls online. So, if you want to share a PDF file with your readers, what about creating a shortcode that will open the PDF in Google Docs instead of forcing download?
Simply paste the code in your functions.php.
function pdflink($attr, $content) {
return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $attr['href'] . '">'.$content.'</a>';
}
add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink');
Once you saved the file, you’ll be able to use the shortcode on your posts and page. Here is the syntax:
[pdf href="http://yoursite.com/linktoyour/file.pdf"]View PDF[/pdf]
» Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-tip-create-a-pdf-viewer-shortcode
Detect the visitor browser within WordPress
Well, this hack is not so new, but it still remains one of my favorites. What this code does is pretty simple, it detects the name of the visitor browser and adds it to the body_class() function.
That way, you can correct browser-specific problems extremely easily. The function has to be pasted in your functions.php file.
add_filter('body_class','browser_body_class');
function browser_body_class($classes) {
global $is_lynx, $is_gecko, $is_IE, $is_opera, $is_NS4, $is_safari, $is_chrome, $is_iphone;
if($is_lynx) $classes[] = 'lynx';
elseif($is_gecko) $classes[] = 'gecko';
elseif($is_opera) $classes[] = 'opera';
elseif($is_NS4) $classes[] = 'ns4';
elseif($is_safari) $classes[] = 'safari';
elseif($is_chrome) $classes[] = 'chrome';
elseif($is_IE) $classes[] = 'ie';
else $classes[] = 'unknown';
if($is_iphone) $classes[] = 'iphone';
return $classes;
}
The function output will look like:
<body class="home blog logged-in safari">
» Source: http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/browser-detection-and-the-body_class-function/
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