Category: Notes (Page 29 of 50)

For anyone who has experience in building WordPress themes – or even just one theme – or anyone who has experience in working with child themes, or simply modifying a core theme, then you’re more than likely with <a title="wp_title" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_title" target="_blank">wp_title</a>.

It’s one of the tags in WordPress that’s easy to usd and that’s easy to understand. Straight from the Codex:

Displays or returns the title of the page. A separator string can be defined, and …, that separator can be designated to print before or after the title of the page.

This tag can be used anywhere within a template as long as it’s outside The Loop on the main page, though is typically used in the <title> element for the head of a page.

Not much to it, right?

But it’s also one of the tags that can be abused which can cause problems especially as it relates to plugins.

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Be sure to checkout this comment to see why adding title attributes may not be a good idea.

When it comes to working with pagination in WordPress, it’s relatively easy to manage:

• There is pagination for index and archive pages.
• There is pagination at the single post level.

Each of which usually consists of doing the following:

• If you’re on an index or an archive page then you’ll use `get_next_posts_link`, `next_posts_link`, `get_previous_posts_link`, `previous_posts_link`.
• If you’re on a single post page, then you’ll use `get_previous_post_link`, `previous_post_link`, `get_next_post_link`, and `next_post_link`.

Enough enough, right?

But there are times in which you may want to add or enhance some of the attributes that are on each of these anchors.

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