Since WordPress is php based, in order to use shortcodes on the sidebar or anywhere on the theme, we have to use echo. <h2><?php echo do_shortcode(‘ catlist categorypage=yes excerpt=yes excerpt_size =255)]’); ?></h2> This is the shortcodes for catlist to list related posts in the same category on the sidebar for my single.php that I’m designing …
I change and modify themes once in a while when I found some nice lay-out themes. Some themes cause my re-sized images NOT to display as the sizes defined in the editor WYSIWYG. It’s the CSS problem. Open the css file and look for “.post img”, there are 2 settings can cause this problem. …
I like mono-lab themes, but none of them has excerpts built-in to list posts with excerpts on the main blog page. I found some codes that actually will work with any themes that don’t have excerpts functions at all. WordPress has built-in excerpts function, but the theme has to call it out to use. Depends …
8-24-12 Category Post List stops working when WordPress Users is activated on WordPress 3.4.1. Category Post List Plugin [pageview url=”//wordpress.org/extend/plugins/complete-post-list-by-alphabetically-ordered-categories/” height=”400px” title=”Category Post List” border=”yes” scrolling=”yes”] Usage, this is a great plugin to create a page to list all posts in all categories of the blog like this page. ‘[‘jwcatpostlist] remove the ‘
I think it’s a good practice to have a home link button at the end of every page for readers to get back to the main page. Create a graphic button or download the free icon on the net: 1 for main and 1 for hover. If there is only 1 image, just use Paint.net …
