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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

Displaying your Twitter entries on your blog using a page template


It is possible to create a Twitter page on your blog with the help of the Twitter Tools plugin. How about playing a bit with the code in order to achieve the same result without using any plugin?

Getting ready

To achieve this recipe, you'll need to use a page template. Page templates will be discussed later in this chapter. Therefore, I won't get into details; just the basics—a page template is a PHP file with a custom layout that you can use on your WordPress blog.

How to do it...

  1. Let's start by creating a very basic page template. Create a new file on your computer and name it, for example, twitter.php and insert the following code in it:

    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: Twitter Page
    */
    ?>
    
    <?php get_header(); ?>
    
    <div id="content">
    <?php //Content goes here ?>
    
    </div>
    
    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    <?php get_footer(); ?>
  2. The most important thing to remember while attempting to create a WordPress page...