In this chapter, we will cover:
Displaying the post title
Automatically limiting the number of words of content
Determining if the user is on a specific page
Determining if the user is viewing a post in a particular category
Displaying the post date for each post
Highlighting search terms in post content
Displaying login/logout links
Adding navigation through older/newer posts
Displaying an edit link for posts
Displaying custom field content
Displaying a post author's avatar
The most important part of any website is its content. Your content and its presentation is the reason people visit and stick around, the thing that search engines index, and the way you get your unique message out to the world.
Luckily for you, WordPress offers a variety of interesting ways to display content for all of the data it manages. As a theme developer, you can also modify the content before WordPress displays it, allowing you to produce some pretty interesting effects, such as search...