WP Wizard » plugins http://wpwizard.net I ❤ WordPress Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:30:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Add jQuery to your Theme or Plugin http://wpwizard.net/jquery/add-jquery-to-your-theme-or-plugin/ http://wpwizard.net/jquery/add-jquery-to-your-theme-or-plugin/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:41:53 +0000 Stian Andreassen http://stianandreassen.com/?p=394 I often use jQuery in the Themes and, without exception, in all the Plugins I write. You can easilly add jQuery to any HTML-document by simply linking to Googles jQuery-script, but this is not always without problems, especially if your sites employs several libraries.

jQuery is often added with this line between and <head> and </head>:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.js"</script>

But this can – among other things – cause latency in page loading, and is really not necessary as WordPress comes pre-packed with a lot of script-libraries, including jQuery.

To add jQuery (or Script-A-Licious or ProtoType) to your Theme, you simply use the wp_enqueue_script() function. In your Themes functions.php (if it doesn’t exists, simply create it) you add these lines:

<?php
function yourtheme_init(){
 wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
 wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-core');
}
add_filter('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'yourtheme_init');
?>

This will load jQuery on your site’s frontend. If you have plugins that use jQuery, the upshot of this method is that WP will not load jQuery multiple times (as it will if you add it manually to your Theme), and thus not cause conflicts.

To avoid jQuery conflicts you should also surround your scripts with this:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.noConflict();
jQuery(document).ready(function($){

YOUR SCRIPT HERE

});
</script>
]]> http://wpwizard.net/jquery/add-jquery-to-your-theme-or-plugin/feed/ 0 Setting up WordPress as a CMS – part 2 http://wpwizard.net/customizing-wordpress/setting-up-wordpress-as-a-cms-part-2/ http://wpwizard.net/customizing-wordpress/setting-up-wordpress-as-a-cms-part-2/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:18 +0000 Stian Andreassen http://www.stianandreassen.com/?p=234 In part 1 I discussed how cleaning up the Dashboard in WordPress by removing excess admin panels and editor sections makes it easier to use, especially for users who are new to WordPress. In this part I’ll be discussing how to add options for excluding pages from navigation and how to add alternate titles.

Exclude Pages from Navigation

I often want to add Pages to my WordPress site, without showing it in wp_list_pages(). So far WordPress doesn’t have an option for excluding Pages from navigation menus without setting Visibility to Private (which makes them unavailable for non-logged-in users). For this we have to use a Plugin: Exclude Pages. This plugin adds a checkbox to the Page Editor; “Include this page in menus”. Simply uncheck this to exclude Pages from the page navigation that users see on your site.

Alternate Titles

When creating Pages in WordPress, what you put in the Title Field will show up both in navigation and as a title on the website. This can be very impractical, not to say downright frustrating. Often I want the menu item to be “About Us”, but the Page title to be “Who We Are”, or something of the same. Not possible in WordPress out-of-the-box. The sollution is Custom Fields. In the Page Editor, add a new custom field called “alttitle”. Then edit your page.php, and replace <h2><?php the_title();  ?></h2> with:

<?php $alttitle = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'alttitle', true); ?>
<h2><?php if(!$alttitle) { the_title(); } else { echo $alttitle; } ?></h2>

That’s it. The code checks if an alternate title is exists, and if so, displays it. Otherwise the default Page title is displayed.

Make an Alternate Title Section in the Editor

If you have hidden the custom fields section from your users, or just simply want to make the sollution more elegant, you can use the More Fields plugin i mentioned in part 1. Here’s how to do it:

  1. Install and activate the plugin
  2. Go to Settings > More Fields and click “Add a new box!”
  3. In Box title put “Alternate Title”, and select “Left” in the Position pull-down, save
  4. Click the “Add new field!” button
  5. In Key put “alttitle”, in Title put “Alternate Title is used as page heading, while Title field (above) is used for navigation items”, leave the rest as is, save
  6. Click “Manage post types” in the top menu, click “Page”, scroll down to the bottom and check the checkbox next to Alternate Title, save

You will now have a new editor section in the Page Editor, where you can write alternate titles for your Pages.

alttitle_dump

]]> http://wpwizard.net/customizing-wordpress/setting-up-wordpress-as-a-cms-part-2/feed/ 1 Setting up WordPress as a CMS – part 1 http://wpwizard.net/customizing-wordpress/setting-up-wordpress-as-a-cms-part-1/ http://wpwizard.net/customizing-wordpress/setting-up-wordpress-as-a-cms-part-1/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:55:01 +0000 Stian Andreassen http://www.stianandreassen.com/?p=3 WordPress is best known as the leading (free) blogging software on the web. But it can also be used as a full-fledged CMS if you know how to take advantage of its flexibility. However, WordPress comes with a host of features which you probably won’t need if you’re using it as a CMS rather than a blogg – such as Comments, Links, and even Posts. So you might want to remove these, especially if you’re setting up a CMS for someone who’s inexperienced and/or have never used WordPress before. Cleaning up the Dashbaord and Editor by removing sections the users don’t need, users who are new to WordPress won’t be distracted by menu items and editor sections they’ll never need to use.

Basically, by removing the excess funtions the users never need, WordPress feels more complete and functional as a CMS. This might make the learning curve a little less steep.

Here’s a few things you might want to do:

Hide Admin Panels

It’s a good idea to clean up the Dashboard, and hide admin panels the users don’t need. For this I use Hide Admin Panels, a plugin that let’s you do just what the name implies; hide panels from the Dashboard main menu, on a per-user-basis. If your users don’t use Links or Comments, they don’t need to see them in the Dashboard. Likewise, if your users only use Pages, hide the Post panel, et cetera.

(This, of course, has more potenial uses. For example, if the site you’re setting up has several users, where only some (or one) of them should have access to publish news, you simply hide the Post panel for those who shouldn’t have access.)

… and rename the rest

If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, some of the admin panels have names that average users don’t necessarily relate to. Maybe you want to change Posts to News, Pages to Content, and Media to Files? This is easily done. All you have to do is download the latest language file (or the latest one in your language, if you’re using a translation), open it in a POT-editor, for example POEdit, and change all instances of “Posts” to “News”, or whatever you like. This is a tedious and time-consuming task, but the good news is, once you’re done you can reuse your new language file on all your WordPress-sites.

Read more about editing language files on Translating WordPress.

Hide Editor Sections

It’s also a good idea to clean up the Editor (for Pages and Posts), by removing sections the users don’t need to see or use. For this I use More Fields, a plugin with many uses (I’ll get back to some of them later), among them the opportunity to remove sections from the Editor. If your users don’t need Comments/Pingback, you hide that section. Likewise with Custom Fields, especially if you use them for certain functions you don’t want or need the users to see. Your users don’t need Excerpt? Remove it! You get the picture …

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