Tips & Tricks
How 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!
Update:
I was reminded by Shayne that you will have to add this script into your header.php
file:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"> </script>
That way if the user doesn’t have Skype, they will be prompted to download it if they would like :).
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 & Tricks
Remove the title attribute using jQuery
In WordPress, when you use wp_page_menu
your anchor attribute’s usually carry a title with the same name. I’m not sure if it’s correct to do this, but it bother me when I hover over a page menu navigation link and I get a hover of the title.
So on my site I used jQuery to remove the title:
$("#nav a").removeAttr("title");
Pretty simple huh?
Tips & Tricks
How to: Open external links in a new window
Over the weekend, I attended WordCamp Denver, and I was asked by John Hawkins how to force links to open in a new tab with out editing the source code. So, today lets learn a simple jQuery trick to open all external links in your site in a new tab or window. We are going to make sure you have jQuery active on your site, you can do this easily in WordPress, since it’s bundled with the latest installations. Use this code in your header: <?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
then, below the wp_head
add the following:
<script type="text/javacript"> var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); $j(document).ready(function() { //external attribute $j("a:not([@href*=http://YOURSITE.com/])").not("[href^=#]") .addClass("external") .attr({ target: "_blank" }); } ); </script>
That’s it, just make sure you change the http://YOURSITE.com to your website.
Update
If you like you can remove the var $j =
and replace all $j
with simply just $
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John Kolbert
February 3, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Hey, thanks for the tip! I’ve been meaning to do something like this on my contact page but never took the time to Google it. Thanks!
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frosty
February 3, 2009 at 5:58 pm
No problem! Glad I could help someone!
sergey
August 5, 2009 at 2:20 am
Thank you for the tip!