I’m sure this isn’t possible but thought I’d ask. I have a testimonials section, the html of each testimonial is like so <p> the testimonal here blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah <em>Name of person</em> </p> Now in WP I have the testimonials as a Custom post type. The Name of person is … Read more
I’m working on my own custom theme (first custom WP work so I’m a real beginner) and need help in listing the first 20 words of a list of recent posts. I managed to solve this with manual? excerpt but I would like to just get the first 20 words of the content, but not … Read more
I’d like to have the content of the current single post loaded into the og:description meta property – but the ‘. $content .’ doesn’t output anything? This is what’s in my header.php if (is_single()) { $content = get_the_content(); $desc=”<meta property=”og:description” content=””. $content .'” />’; echo $desc; } What could the problem be? 2 Answers 2 … Read more
This is a bit difficult without posting scads of code, but my question is: What are the benefits of filtering through apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘anything’);, and given my example loop, am I filtering the_content excessively or inefficiently, or is there a better way? I ask because I just tried the Shareaholic plugin, which is supposed to detect … Read more
This concerns a problem at my blog. My provider recently required me to upgrade from PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.4. This in turn required me to update WordPress. Ever since the dual update, all line breaks in comments are rendering as “rn”, so that if you type this: Hi <br><br> Hello what gets rendered is … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Your question should be specific to WordPress. Generic PHP/JS/SQL/HTML/CSS questions might be better asked at Stack Overflow or another appropriate Stack Exchange network site. Third party plugins and themes are off topic, they are better asked about at their developers’ support routes. Closed 4 … Read more
Example post <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p> <p>Morbi elementum odio vel tortor adipiscing vel tempor risus ullamcorper.</p> What I have done : function first_paragraph($content){ return preg_replace(‘/<p([^>]+)?>/’, ‘<p$1 class=”first-paragraph”>’, $content, 1); } add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘first_paragraph’); Which will have different class for first paragraph Now I want add <span class=”first-letter”>L</span> and result should be like <p class=”first-paragraph”><span class=”first-letter”>L</span>orem … Read more
Is it possible to control the length of the content or excerpt for a specific query/loop? I have come across the following code, but this changes the length for all excerpts, I want it focused on a specific custom query. add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘my_excerpt_length’); function my_excerpt_length($length) { return 20; } 2 Answers 2 Try this: http://pippinspages.com/tutorials/better-wordpress-post-excerpt-revamped/
Before I call the_excerpt(), the_permalink() displays the correct thing. Afterwards, it does not… <?php global $query_string; //strip out the “pagename=blog” so that the query will grab all of the posts instead of the content of the blog page $query_string = preg_replace(“/pagename=[a-zA-Z0-9]*/”, “”, $query_string); query_posts( $query_string . “posts_per_page=3” ); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( … Read more
I’m migrating a client site over to a WordPress CMS. I made templates for each of the pages that would have static content: about us, facility, FAQs, etc. The problem is that this content seems to be unsearchable (if that’s the right term). Is there an easy way to make this content available to an … Read more
