Showing the Last Updated Date in wp Posts or Pages

One of the most important things currently is to be up to date, offering contrasted information and, above all, that has not become obsolete. Most WP themes show the date on which an article was created but … How can a visitor know if that content is up to date?

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The answer is to show, in addition to the date of creation, the date of the last modification of any wp content. In this post I’m going to show how we can do it in a very simple way. Continue reading…

Creating a Table of Contents for your Pages

WordPress has got the hability to work with nuclear posts and also with posts that can contain other posts, ie, posts with hierarchical structure, the pages. Today we’re going to see how to create a hierarchical list of the second ones, as an index of pages, Table of contents (TOC), etc.

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As default, WordPress supports two different kinds of elements: posts and pages. The basic difference between them is that the first ones are treated as individual elements and thus, when WordPress displays a collection of them, this will be just a long linear list of elements (like the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, for example) meanwhile the second ones have got a hierachical structure, ie, each element can contain (to point to) elements that have also got hierarchical structure and can contain (to point to) other elements and so on, in consequence, when WordPress displays a collection of them, it should be always presented as a tree and never as a list. Continue reading…

Creating WP help tabs in admin, plugins or themes pages

WordPress has got a help manager very simple, just a couple of functions, so you can easily use it for creating help screen for your own developements. Learn you step by step how the WP help manager works, and how to use it.

Creating WP helps for your plugins and themes

But before beginning to create our own WP help pages, first we should see the internal structure of the WP help manager that, basically has just got two modules. Continue reading…

How to detect when get_template_part() WordPress function fails

Nowadays, in most of modern WordPress themes, the function get_template_part() is one of their essential elements. It just takes review the structure of, for example the last official themes (…, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen), to realize that WordPress themes have evolved, from a structure quite monolitic to a structure driven by content and formats. And one of the keys to this evolution is the get_template_part () function.

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get_template_part() it’s actually an invaluable element of any modern WordPress theme that through its two parameters allows us to select dynamically what .php file (what part) is going to be loaded for displaying the current page (see the official documentation for further information) however, one of its characteristics is that Continue reading…

Examples of adding fields to WordPress Metabox

A few days ago, we was talking about how to construct a WordPress metabox for a couple of fields, today we will extend that example with several examples of code for adding different kinds of fields.

Examples of adding fields to WordPress Metabox

The fields of a regular WordPress metabox are almost always constructed using a <p></p> HTML tag so, in general, the main structure of any field for a metabox should be like this. Continue reading…

Additional Fields to the WordPress Media Uploader

In general, WordPress Media Uploader module has enogh data fields for identifying perfectly any of its elements, images, videos or whatever however, some times, you need not just identifying, for example an image, but to add some information about the exact url source, technical data about the place where it was taken, the people that appears in a photo, etc. In this cases, you need to add some more data fields to the WordPress Media Uploader.

How to add additional fields to the WordPress Media Uploader

In this example, we’re going to suppose that we want to add the name of the place where a photo was taken and, for example, the name of the client for who we are working thus, two additional fields because. By the way, if you was thinking in adding fields to keep the technical information of the photo Continue reading…

Your plugins ready for WordPress PolyGlots

Perhaps, you are writing a new WordPress plugin and perhaps, you do want to translate it… If this is your case, there are two approaches: to translate the code via a code translator programme, for example PoEdit, or to use the translations WordPress system called PolyGlots.

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In the first case –translating via an external programme– you just follow the general i18n WordPress developement recomendations for local languages but, if you have choosen WordPress PolyGlots plataform then, in addition to the general i18n rules, you have to do some little changes in the code of your plugin. In fact, there are not a lot of changes to do, just a few ones. Continue reading…

Constructing WP themes or plugins that take into account future gender translations

Actually, there is not a simple solution for avoid the gender issue if you are translating a WP theme or plugin to languages that take into account the gender for selecting the words of a sentence. Simple, try to substitute the gendered words or expression for others that feet into the sentence without too many problems… But if you are not translating but creating a new theme or plugin you can use a simple set of techniques –better maybe suggestions–, that will allow future translators for dealing to this kind of problems with better results. Let’s go to see three simple proposals.

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But, before to go to the solution, let me show you a tiny example of this kind of gender issues. Continue reading…

Using wp_add_inline_script function. A Google Analytics example.

Until version version 4.4, in WordPress, there was only one way to add script files to the WordPress themes, the function wp_enqueue_script however, the new version 4.5 has introduced a new way, the function wp_add_inline_script that allows us to add javascript text scripts directly inside a template and that, in addition, it can be directly connected with other scripts. Let’s go to see how it works.

Example of using the wp_add_inline_script function

At bottom, this new function wp_add_inline_script is the equivalent for scripts files, to the wp_add_inline_script function is for CSS files. Let’s see how it works through and example based on adding the Google Analytics script to a WP theme. Continue reading…

How to order the Replies of the Comments

WordPress has a good interface for ordering and showing the comments of a post for the themes. You simply have to do click on the Admin’s menu Settings / Discussion and in the section Other comment settings, the last two lines offers you three fields for controlling it: number of comments for each page, which page is shown in first position (the last or the first) and, of course, the order of the comments (older or newer comments) for each comments page… But, what about the replies of each individual comment? How to control if these replies are displayed in ascending or descending order?

How to order the Replies of the Comments

Though in terms of data type, comments and replies are the same, due to their hierarchical structure,  Continue reading…