In the previous post, we discussed how to hack the search function in Wordpress to have an additional search form that would search subcategories. Now that you have 2 or more search forms on your site, you might need to customize the search results. Thanks to this solution, I learned how to ...
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Recently, we had a client who wanted a special recipe search. There were 2 ways to extend the search functionality - manually or dynamically.
1. Search One or More Categories Manually
If we want to search one category, we could have used this solution which lets you manually add category numbers to the search function:
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I wanted to create a simple directory of non-profit organizations. To do so, I wanted to use pages for the directory, rather than posts so that I could separate the static directory listings from the dynamic blog posts. I didn't want to have to exclude tons of categories from feedburner and the main ...
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You can manage multiple sidebar widgets in WordPress. To do so, you go to the Widgets page in the Admin, and select the Sidebar you want to manage. If you have 1 widgetized sidebar, the name "Sidebar 1" is not a big deal for managing it. But what if you have 5 or ...
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We're currently building a site on Adii's Premium Gazette WordPress theme (this is an affiliate link). In my opinion, it's an awesome theme particularly because of the design. However, we installed it on the client's server of choice, and the posts on the homepage just wouldn't update. We tested it out on different ...
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Some blogs have alternating background colors for their comments and posts, i.e. a green background for every even comment and post, and a grey background for every odd comment and post. How do they do that?
Alternating Comments Styles
To alternate comments, add the following code to your comments.php template file, under where it says <?php ...
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Being able to link to specific comments in your WordPress blog could be very handy. Good comments can really add a lot of value to a blog, and you or others may want to refer to specific comments in your posts by linking to them. In general, comments can be linked to, but to ...
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You may encounter situations where you need to automatically display a thumbnail or image of some kind that will link to posts. Here's an example of this kind of situation: ...
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The title I am referring to here is the title that appears in the top bar of your browser, and is in betweeen <title></title> tags in your code. Apparently, to make it more SEO friendly, the title of the post or article should appear before the title of your blog, but generally themes have ...
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Using PHP to alternate background colors for comments or posts in WordPress