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
Echo custom fields in any category
Here is a neat trick. Say you want to show a custom field in you post or in a certain categories post. There is a simple code you need to write in order to accomplish this:
<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", $single = true); ?> <?php if($image != '') : if(in_category(7)) { echo ''; } else { ?> <img src="<?php echo $image ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
In the example above I am calling the variable $image
and telling the server that it equals the value of “image” inside get_post_meta
or “custom field” of the current post.
Then we are asking if that variable $image
doesn’t equal nothing or !=
and if it is in the category id of 7, echo what ever is in the single quotes (which is nothing in this example), otherwise show the <img>
and the value inside “image” which should be the location of the image.
Update: Thanks to Austin from PressedWords for pointing out his trick, from the comment below.
Tips & Tricks
Disable caching of your site or post
I talked about Disabling search engine on search pages in a previous post using the meta tag
. Today lets go over the web bots Cached copy of your site. If you are working on builder your blog, or have a temporary site up, use the following code:
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
This will tell any bot to follow your site, index it, but prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
Tips & Tricks
Disable search engine on search pages
A good idea when trying to get the most out of your blog is usging the meta tag to tell the web bots to search & index your site. But for good SEO you should apply this code in your header.php
file of your WordPress blog.
<?php if(is_search()) { ?> <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> <?php }?>
This will keep your site from getting a hit from bots over duplicate entries. 🙂
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Peter
May 16, 2009 at 12:10 am
If you’re just trying to make the string into a valid URL candidate, urlencode() might be a better choice- that way you don’t have to worry about other characters in your title (colons, commas, punctuation, etc).
Peter´s last blog post..How to Hide Certain Custom Fields From the Edit Post Page
Peter Kahoun
May 16, 2009 at 7:58 am
There is as “urlencode()” php function for this purpose. http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
Austin
May 16, 2009 at 8:31 am
Thanks for that!
Matt
August 16, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Brilliant stuff, thanks!