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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Getting posts published today


If you publish more than one post per day on your blog, it would be a good idea to display other posts that you have written on the current day to encourage your visitors to read them as well.

Getting ready

Mixed with some easy PHP, query_posts() date and time parameters can be very useful. For example, the following code gets today's date with PHP, and then display all posts published within the day.

How to do it...

Simply paste this code anywhere on your template where you'd like your posts to be displayed. A good idea should be to display it on single.php, just after the main post and before the comments.

<?php
$current_day = date('j');
$current_month = date('m');
$year = date('Y');
query_posts('day='.$current_day.'&month='.$current_month.'&year='.$year);
if (have_posts()) :
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
      // WordPress loop
     endwhile;
endif; 
?>

How it works...

In the preceding code, I started with creating two PHP variables...