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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 exactly a year ago


Here's a nice idea to give a second life to your old posts—automatically displaying the posts you published exactly one year ago. In this recipe, you'll learn how to do just that by using some simple PHP, the WordPress loop, and the super-useful query_posts() function.

Getting ready

In the previous recipe, I showed you how to get posts for the day. Now, let's use the same code and modify it a bit to get all posts published exactly one year ago.

How to do it...

This code can be used anywhere in your theme files. However, I recommend using it in single.php, between display of the post and the comments template.

<?php
$current_day = date('j');
$current_month = date('m');
$last_year = date('Y') -1;
query_posts('day='.$current_day.'&month='.$current_month.
        '&year='.$last_year);
if (have_posts()) :
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        // WordPress loop
    endwhile;
endif;
?>

How it works...

This useful code works exactly...