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Limit Word Count in WordPress Excerpt

I came across a great way to limit the number of words displayed in the excerpt for a WordPress post, brought to you by the good folks at Cuppa (update – link removed because the site is gone). This method will allow you to choose a specific word limit every time you use the_excerpt or get_the_excerpt in your template files, … Read More

Manual Sort Order for Authors or Users – WordPress

Sorting Cat. Get it? Like "Sorting Hat?" Any Harry Potter Fans out there?

Sometimes it’s necessary to manually select the order in which to sort your authors on your page listing all your authors or users. It is a little tricky to do, but I’ll break it down for you in this simple tutorial. First, you are going to need to add a custom meta field for your users. There are many ways … Read More

Display Only Top-Level Parent Categories – WordPress

If you are using a loop to list all your WordPress categories or terms in a custom taxonomy and you only want to display the top-level ones, here is how you do that. The trick is in getting the “parent” parameter, which is set to “0” for all top-level terms and categories. So to start a foreach loop and display … Read More

Dropdown List of Authors with Posts in Category – WordPress

While at first it may seem impossible, creating a dropdown list of all the authors with posts in a specific category is not actually all that difficult. This will work with custom taxonomies and custom post types as well, so it should suit the needs of just about anyone. Let’s get right to it! The Code:

<form>
        <select onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_top')">
          <option value="">Select by Author</option>
          <?php //Code to get a list of all authors with posts in this category, and then create a dropdown list of their names with links to their page

$category = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy_name = 'custom_taxonomy_name_here'; //Change to reflect the name of your custom taxonomy
$current_category = $category->slug;
echo '<h1>' . $current_category . 'testing</h1>';
$author_array = array();
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_type' => 'custom_post_type_here', //Change to your custom post type
'tax_query' => array(
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'custom_taxonomy_name_here', //Change to reflect the name of your custom taxonomy
			'field' => 'slug',
			'terms' => $current_category
			),
			),
'orderby' => 'author',
'order' => 'ASC'
);
$cat_posts = get_posts($args);
foreach ($cat_posts as $cat_post) :
if (!in_array($cat_post->post_author,$author_array)) {
$author_array[] = $cat_post->post_author;
}
endforeach;
foreach ($author_array as $author) :
$auth = get_userdata($author)->display_name;
$nicename = get_userdata($author)->user_nicename;
echo '<option value="' . get_term_link( $category->slug, $taxonomy_name ) . '/' . $nicename . '">' . $auth . '</option>'; //creates the URL to our term, filtered by author
endforeach;
?>
        </select>
      </form>

<form>

<option value="">Select by Author</option>

<?php //Code to get a list of all authors with posts in this category, and then create a dropdown list of their names with links to their page

$category = get_queried_object();

$taxonomy_name = 'custom_taxonomy_name_here'; //Change to reflect the name of your custom taxonomy

$current_category = $category->slug;

echo '<h1>' . $current_category . 'testing</h1>';

$author_array = array();

$args = array(

'posts_per_page' => -1,

'post_type' => 'custom_post_type_here', //Change to your custom post type

'tax_query' => array(

array(

'taxonomy' => 'custom_taxonomy_name_here', //Change to reflect the name of your custom taxonomy

'field' => 'slug',

'terms' => $current_category

'orderby' => 'author',

'order' => 'ASC'

);

$cat_posts = get_posts($args);

foreach ($cat_posts as $cat_post) :

if (!in_array($cat_post->post_author,$author_array)) {

$author_array[] = $cat_post->post_author;

}

endforeach;

foreach ($author_array as $author) :

$auth = get_userdata($author)->display_name;

$nicename = get_userdata($author)->user_nicename;

echo '<option value="' . get_term_link( $category->slug, $taxonomy_name ) . '/' . $nicename . '">' . $auth . '</option>'; //creates the URL to our term, filtered by author

endforeach;

</select>

</form>

There are … Read More

Get ID of Current Category – WordPress

Getting the ID of the current category in WordPress is actually quite simple. This will work in category archive pages or anywhere a category has been queried. We are going to use get_queried_object() to accomplish this task. The following script will get all the information about our queried object and put it in an array, $category. Then we are simply … Read More

Display Future Posts Easily with query_posts – WordPress

It’s actually quite easy to include future posts in a WordPress loop using a simple query_posts with some arguments. Other information on the web makes it sound like it’s really tricky, but those people are either misinformed or lying. Let’s take a look! This tutorial assumes you are familiar with the use of query_posts to start a new query. If … Read More

Undefined Index – PHP Text Widget Error Solution

If you are using the PHP Text Widget in WordPress and get an error in your Admin section that reads:

Notice: Undefined index: page in /home/content/79/7603579/html/wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php on line 15

1	Notice: Undefined index: page in /home/content/79/7603579/html/wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php on line 15

Or something similar, there is an easy solution to this annoying problem. First, load up the file plugin.php from the plugins directory, usually wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php. You may want to download it using your FTP program so you can work on … Read More

Authors Loop with Links to Pages – WordPress Tutorial

Creating the loop for a page that displays all of your authors in your WordPress website is something that’s not as straight-forward as you would think it would be. Additionally, actually linking to the author’s page is fairly tricky. So today I am going to show you how to do it. You can take the final code and put it … Read More

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