Tag: php
Using WordPress to create your page-based website
You’re a web designer, and you want to create a website – and like a lot of sites these days, it will be based around the pages, yet include a blog or news section. Congratulations! I am now going to give you a quick tutorial on making a page-based site using WordPress. This will make editing the pages easy, yet make it look like the blog is a separate installation.
If you have never touched PHP, roll up your sleeves and get ready to get dirty. I will try to make this relatively painless.
What you need!
WordPress Plugins (Optional):
All In One SEO Pack
Contact Form 7
NexGen Gallery
PageMash
WP Google Analytics
Programs
You’ll need to BYOP but here are the ones I use:
TextMate OR any text editor
Transmit OR any FTP program
Services
Tutorial: How to display short blog title in WordPress
As was recently pointed out to me by Andy in the comments, this post was quite out of date. I was fairly new to WordPress and had found a hacked way to modify the core of WordPress to return a short version of wp_title(); — but this is a method far from necessary and will always get removed when you update WordPress.
I opted to delete the out-of-date method, so that you only get the stuff that makes sense!
There is a simple script you can use to implement a short blog title without modifying the base WordPress code. Open up your functions.php file within your theme and add the following:
[php]function short_title() {
$title = get_the_title();
$count = strlen($title);
if ($count >= 25) {
$title = substr($title, 0, 25);
$title .= ‘…’;
}
echo $title;
}[/php]
You can now reference short_title(); anywhere within the … Read More »
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