Tips & Tricks
How to: show/hide a widget in WordPress with jQuery
In a previous post I talked about how to show/hide a single div
html code with a search inside. Today I’d like to show you how I implemented jQuery into my new theme.
As seen in the current theme, I am using jQuery to animate the show/hide or as known as the css style display: none;
.
Since I am using a custom child theme on my site, and have Hybrid theme as my parent, the widgets or sidebar section is different than may be in your theme. But just apply the the style’s as follows to your theme.
First make sure that your WordPress site is calling jQuery, by plugging in this code into your header.php
file above the <?php wp_head(); ?>
text:
<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>
Then anywhere above the </head
>, plug this code in:
<script type="text/javascript"> function toggleWidgets() { $('#primary h3.widget-title').addClass('plus'); $('#primary h3.widget-title').click(function() { $(this).toggleClass('plus').toggleClass('minus').next().toggle(180); }); } $(document).ready(function() { toggleWidgets(); } </script>
That’s it. Pretty simple huh.
So lets go over what the code does.
$('#primary h3.widget-title').addClass('plus');
This line finds all <h3>
tags with the class widget-title
inside the ID parameter of #primary
and adds a class of plus
.
Then
$('#primary h3.widget-title').click(function() { $(this).toggleClass('plus').toggleClass('minus').next().toggle(180); });
Will apply a click function. When the H3 tag is clicked it will remove the class plus
and add the class minus
.
Then the code that says .next
will then toggle the “next” element after the <h3> title.
Tips & Tricks
Remove spaces when echoing the_title
Ever wanted to print or echo the WordPress title attribute without spaces?
This little trick can be useful for calling custom functions and printing the title with out spaces for W3C compatibility. I used this trick in a new theme called Galleria, which will be out for public download in the coming days.
Using this comes in handy for a delicious text link:
<?php $title = get_the_title(); ?> <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php echo $title; ?>&<?php echo str_replace(" ", "%20", $title); ?>"> Bookmark This (<?php echo $title; ?>)</a>
What I am doing is calling $title = get_the_title();
and using str_replace(" ", "%20", $title);
to replace empty spaces with a %20
, which is used in URL encoding empty spaces.
Alternatively you can use a dash or underscore.
Thanks to Jason Boyle for his adaption.
Tips & Tricks
Display the_excerpt only if there is text
Have you ever wanted to display the excerpt only if you write one? A simple couple lines of code can display the_excerpt
any where you like.
In my new theme, I am using this coded trick to display the excerpt on a single post only if I’ve got text inside. Usually if you use the_excerpt
and you don’t have one, it will fake one for you.
This is not something that I wanted to do on the single post page. So I used the following code to check if the excerpt existed.
if ( !empty( $post->post_excerpt ) ) :
Once this action is taken into account, you can factor in what code you want to out put if the post_excerpt
isn’t empty.
if ( !empty( $post->post_excerpt ) ) : the_excerpt(); else : false; endif;
The above code checks if there is an excerpt and print’s it to the screen. If there isn’t an except, it doesn’t do anything.
Tips & Tricks
Add a shortcode
This is a simple one.
/** * Your Blog title * */ function my_blog_title() { $blogname = get_bloginfo('name'); return '<span class="blog-title">' . $blogname . '</span>'; } add_shortcode('blog-title', 'my_blog_title');
Just add this to your functions.php file and then add [blog-title] in any post or page and it will return your Blog Title. :)
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