Tips & Tricks
Build 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, we can change it to ffffff
and make it white.
That’s it, enjoy!
Themes
Add additional meta boxes to Hybrid Theme
At the time of writing this post I have Theme Hybrid as my parent theme, and am using a custom version of Hybrid News that Justin Tadlock offers to the public.
Well I want to tell you how you can add additional custom meta boxes to your child theme’s running the Hybrid Theme.
In your child function.php
file just add the following to create a new post meta box:
/** * Add additional post meta boxes * * by WPCult */ function wpcult_post_meta_boxes($meta_boxes) { $meta_boxes['image'] = array( 'name' => 'image', 'default' => '', 'title' => __('Image:'), 'type' => 'text', 'show_description' => false, 'description' => __('Please use a full size image, larger than 500px (this photo will dynamically re-size itself!'), ); return $meta_boxes; } add_filter('hybrid_post_meta_boxes', 'wpcult_post_meta_boxes');
This will create a custom meta box called Image, and will create a custom field with the id of image.
Additionally you can create this on pages as well by copy/paste and replacing “post_meta_box” with “page_meta_box” every where inside the function.
Tips & Tricks
Sick of images being to large for the content area?
Have you ever uploaded an image that might have been a tad bigger than the width of your content area? I know I have! So here is a little CSS fix to handle these situations.
.post img { max-width: 600px; height: auto; }
That’s it, really simple huh. Just make sure that you change the .post
to the correct body class(which starts with a “.“) or body ID(which starts with a “#“).
Would you like a quick explanation?
The CSS is just telling any image inside the class of .post
to not be more than 600px wide. By the way make sure you change it to fit the dimension of your content width. And the height attribute is set to auto to automatically change the height to match the new width. 🙂
Tips & Tricks
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 a post from")); ?></p> <?php endforeach; ?>
The first step is to include the WordPress file rss.php
then will apply code after to style the feeds.
Of coarse I forgot to mention, change the RSS feed to the feed you want to pull.
-
Tips & Tricks4 months ago
WordPress Security Hacks
-
Pages1 month ago
Write For Us – Guest Post
-
Showcase2 months ago
StylizedWeb.com
-
News1 month ago
How to: Show/Hide any div box with jQuery in WordPress
-
Tips & Tricks3 months ago
How to: show/hide a widget in WordPress with jQuery
-
Tips & Tricks1 week ago
Remove the title attribute using jQuery
-
Plugins3 months ago
Top Membership plugins
-
Tips & Tricks2 months ago
Limit the characters that display on the_title
Danny
February 5, 2009 at 9:04 am
Hello, using your code, I obtain only an empty . have you got any idea?
Danny´s last blog post..Proprieta’ Font-Weight: solo un browser la supporta
frosty
February 5, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Hey Danny,
Make sure this is pasted into your
functions.php
and then you should see a ‘widget’ in your widgets area..Glenn
March 19, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Austin,
This disadvantage of placing widgets in the functions.php file is (I think) they get clobbered on an update of WordPress.
Again you could use Widgetifyr.com to easily create a stand alone widget.
Thanks
Glenn
Austin
March 19, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Thanks Glenn,
I will give your service a try with this widget.