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How to: Display RSS feeds from anywhere
Here is a simple way to display any RSS feed in your WordPress blog.
<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php'); $rss = fetch_rss('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/WPCult'); $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 4); if (empty($items)) echo '<li>No items</li>'; else foreach ( $items as $item ) : ?> <a style="font-size: 14px;" href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>' title='<?php echo $item['title']; ?>'><?php echo $item['title']; ?></a><br /> <p style="font-size: 10px; color: #aaa;"><?php echo date('F, j Y',strtotime($item['pubdate'])); ?></p> <p><?php echo substr($item['summary'],0,strpos($item['summary'], "This is aClick here to continue readingStyling your ordered & unordered list items into 2 columns
In a previous post I showed you how to create a custom widget, then I showed you how to create a widget for your monthly archives, and limit the month’s that show. I am showing the past 4 months in my widget at this time.
One of my readers: Alex asked:
How did you make the archives widget to show the dates separately into two columns?
Now I will show you a CSS trick to create this effect:
First we will give the unordered list a width of 100%:
ul#archives { width:110%; }Then we will style the <li> nested
Click here to continue readingHow to: Add a contact me via Skype™ button
This little trick is really simple and easy. All you need to do is plug this line of code anywhere you would like to use the text.
<a onclick="return skypeCheck();" href="skype:austin.passy?call">Call me on Skype!</a>That’s is, pretty simple huh? Just make sure you change skype:austin.passy to your user name!
Want a test? Well, please use the text button, as I was getting to many call’s and hangups: Call me on Skype! Message me on Skype!
Thanks to Shayne for this code!
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How to: Limiting the posts in you archive widget
I have show you how to create a custom widget in a previous post. But how about adding and additional “Archives” widget that won’t list the last 3 years (if you’ve been around that long) in month form stretching down your whole sidebar?
Well, lets take a look at the original code found in the widgets.php file in the ./wp-includes/ folder.
<?php /** * Display archives widget. * * @since 2.2.0 * * @param array $args Widget arguments. */ function wp_widget_archives($args) { extract($args); $options = get_option('widget_archives'); $c = $options['count'] ? '1' : '0'; $d = $options['dropdown'] ? '1' : '0'; $title = empty($options['title']) ? __('Archives') : apply_filters('widget_title', $options['title']); echoClick here to continue readingBuild a classic MyBlogLog widget
In this post I will show you how I created my custom widget showcasing mybloglog readers.
In your function.php file add this simple line of code:
<?php // MyBlogLog function MyBlogLogWidget() { ?> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pub.mybloglog.com/comm2.php?mblID=ReplaceWithYourID&c_width=220&c_sn_opt=n&c_rows=6&c_img_size=h&c_heading_text=&c_color_heading_bg=e0e0d4&c_color_heading=E8A02C&c_color_link_bg=e0e0d4&c_color_link=d54e21&c&c_color_bottom_bg=e0e0d4"></script> <?php } //register the sidebar 'the widget name', 'the widget function'// register_sidebar_widget('MyBlogLog Widget', 'MyBlogLogWidget'); ?>That’s it, just replace the “ReplaceWithYourID” with your mybloglog ID. You can also change the width at c_width=220 to what ever you like.
If you look closely at the code you may also see color codes, you may change them to corresponding hex codes, for example: c_color_bottom_bg=e0e0d4 is the color for the bottom background. e0e0d4 is a light gray,
Click here to continue readingHow to: Creating an Archive page
Many weblog sites these days have some form of an archive page. In WordPress it might be the built in auto generation of permalinks by: /Month/ and /date/.
But in some blog’s, for instance this one here (as I said in a previous post) you can’t get the post to paginate or link to http://youblog.com/page/2 if you have nice permalinks active or http://youblog.com/?paged=2.
By any means, In this theme I have to have an archive link at the bottom. So..
Archive WordPress Plugins
There are many plugins which allows you to automatically create an archive page. The
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