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Programming and scripting topics.

How to style wordpress default comment form for TwentyTen?

Published by admin on 2010-10-09

Go to your theme open comments.php if you have one:

and find the line:

comment_form();

Replace it with this code which you could change as you like:

$commenter = wp_get_current_commenter();

$fields =  array(
 'author' => '<p>' . '<input id="author" name="author" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /><label for="author">' . __( 'Name' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span>*</span>' : '' ) .
 '</p>',
 'email'  => '<p><input id="email" name="email" type="text" value="' . esc_attr(  $commenter['comment_author_email'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /><label for="email">' . __( 'Email' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span>*</span>' : '' ) .
 '</p>',
 'url'    => '<p><input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_url'] ) . '" size="30" /><label for="url">' . __( 'Website' ) . '</label>' .
 '</p>',
);

$defaults = array(
 'fields'               => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields ),
);

comment_form($defaults);

For more information check the wordpress docs: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comment_form

How wordpress more link can navigate to top of the full article window?

Published by admin on 2010-10-09

By default, when you click on the Read More link, the web page loads and then “jumps” to the spot where the <–more–> tag is set in the post. If you do not want that “jump”, you can use this code in your theme’s functions.php:

function remove_more_jump_link($link) {
$offset = strpos($link, '#more-');
if ($offset) {
$end = strpos($link, '"',$offset);
}
if ($end) {
$link = substr_replace($link, '', $offset, $end-$offset);
}
return $link;
}
add_filter('the_content_more_link', 'remove_more_jump_link');

Function to get wordpress theme URL

Published by admin on 2010-10-08

This function will return the theme directory URL so you can use it in other functions:

get_bloginfo('template_directory');

Alternatively, this function will echo the theme directory URL to the browser:

bloginfo('template_directory');

So an example for an image in the themes images/headers folder would be:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/headers/image.jpg" />

How to add a scallable background image to your site?

Published by admin on 2010-10-07

If you want to add an image that resizes according to the monitor or the browser size just follow the steps:

First put the image exactly after the opening <body> tag:

<body>

<img src=”images/bg.jpg” class=”bg” />

Then go to the CSS and add this:


img.bg {
     bottom:0;
     min-width:1024px;
     position:fixed;
     right:0;
     width:100%;
}

Then add some exception CSS for IE6, because it doesn’t get this stuff to work well.

Modifying the Tags Results Page for Joomla K2 + Creating a K2 Template Over Ride

Published by admin on 2010-10-05

This is a handy little guide, if you want to change the way that your Tag Results page is displayed.
As default, when you click on a Tag Link in a K2 Item, it will produce a page showing all full items which have that particular tag.

Now, if you Items contain a lot of information or you have a lot of Items with the same Tag, you will end up with quite a long list.

This little guide will explain how to reduce the displayed data to show just a snippet of the Item information plus add a bit of extra information.

Firstly, we are going to have to modify the generic.php file, this is located on components/com_k2/templates/
Now, If you do not want to modify this core file, then you can create a new K2 template first.

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How to rename the home link on the main wordpress menu to something else?

Published by admin on 2010-10-03

If you are using thematic child theme go to thematic-functions.php file in your child theme and add this:

//    Add a Home link to your menu
function childtheme_menu_args($args) {
$args = array(
'show_home' => 'Home',  //here change Home to whatever you like
'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
'menu_class' => 'menu',
'echo' => true
);
return $args;
}
add_filter('wp_page_menu_args','childtheme_menu_args');
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