WordPress allows theme developers to manage their templates in many different ways. But certainly, get_template_part is the best version of it. It uses core WordPress functions to find and load a specific PHP file. So, basically it is like PHP include, but on steroids. In this post, we will show you a few use cases […]
If you are into developing custom themes for WordPress, you probably know how useful it can be to use custom meta fields in your posts. But only adding those fields is not enough. You need custom loops or functions to filter/get your posts using those meta values. In this post, we share with you a […]
function wpassist_insert_terms(){ $ahc = get_term_by(‘name’, ‘American Heroes Channel’, ‘post_tag’); if( !$ahc ){ wp_insert_term( ‘American Heroes Channel’, ‘post_tag’); wp_insert_term( ‘Discovery Channel’, ‘post_tag’); wp_insert_term( ‘Animal Planet’, ‘post_tag’); wp_insert_term( ‘USA Network’, ‘post_tag’); wp_insert_term( ‘Amazon’, ‘post_tag’); wp_insert_term( ‘TNT’, ‘post_tag’); } } add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wpassist_insert_terms’ );
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When you are creating a custom loop, generally query_posts or WP_Query is more than enough for the job. But if you want to work on an API project that depends on WordPress tables, then you will need to use custom MySQL queries. Here is a custom MySQL query to get a random post from the […]
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Using WordPress core function wp_count_posts, you can easily display total number of posts. Here is a simple example on how to use this function: <?php $count_posts = wp_count_posts(); $published_posts = $count_posts->publish; echo ‘We published ‘ . $published_posts . ‘ posts until now, and it’s still growing..’; ?> This displays a text output like this; We […]