WordPress Popular Snippets

Snippet to insert a .PHP file into a template file

This is very useful when you have a section that you want to repeat throughout site.

For example, I often create a PHP file just for a section of ads that are used throughout a site. Then in my template files I deploy the following code to call up the PHP file wherever I want the ads to show up; this way any changes I make to the PHP ads file will reflect throughout my site.

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/YOUR_PHP_FILE_NAME.php"); ?>

Snippet to create a WordPress Page template

Duplicate either the “home.php” file or the “index.php” file in your template folder, then add this code at beginning of it. Rename the modified file.

<?php
/*
Template Name: PAGE TEMPLATE NAME
*/
?>

Snippet to create a WordPress Post template

Use this with the the Custom Post Plugin of Simon Wheatley which enables sites to have multiple templates for posts.

Duplicate a template file, either the “home.php” or the “index.php” in your template folder, then add the following code at beginning.

<?php
/*
Template Name Posts: POST TEMPLATE NAME
*/
?>

get_posts, WordPress’ most powerful template tag

What makes this tag more powerful than most is its endless customization possibility; I use it to produce contents of all pages under the cPanel header on the left, and the results are all different.

<?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('CUSTOM_ARGUMENTS');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
   setup_postdata($post);
?>

CUSTOMIZATION OF THE RESULT FOR EACH POST GOES HERE

?>

See full documentation on the get_posts tag.