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Stephanie Leary

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Listing child pages with a shortcode

June 8, 2010 Stephanie Leary 7 Comments

If you don't want to list child pages on all your empty pages using a [link id="2865"]page template[/link] or a [link id="5246"]filter[/link], you can create a simple shortcode: Then place [[children]] in your page content where you want the list to appear. … [Read more...] about Listing child pages with a shortcode

WordPress Posts and Pages, shortcodes

Listing children on empty pages as a filter

June 3, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I showed you how to automatically list child pages if a page's content is empty. That code would go in your theme's page.php file. What if you wanted to use it in any theme? The best solution is to turn it into a little plugin: Paste the code into a file in your … [Read more...] about Listing children on empty pages as a filter

WordPress Navigation, Posts and Pages

Automatically list children on empty pages

June 2, 2010 Stephanie Leary 5 Comments

Here's a little snippet I use in my theme's page templates. It figures out whether a page's content is empty, and if it is, a list of all its child pages is printed where the content would usually go. To use this, find the_content() in your page.php file and replace it with that … [Read more...] about Automatically list children on empty pages

WordPress Posts and Pages

Take control of your excerpts

February 9, 2010 Stephanie Leary 4 Comments

Here are three short functions you can add to your theme's functions.php file to change the way excerpts work on your site. When you use the_excerpt() in a theme file, WordPress will first use the contents of the Excerpt field from your Post→Edit screen. If it's empty, … [Read more...] about Take control of your excerpts

WordPress excerpts, Metadata, Posts and Pages

Listing child pages

August 9, 2009 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

The Codex offers a way to list the children of the current page by adding this to your theme: … [Read more...] about Listing child pages

WordPress Navigation, pages, Posts and Pages, template tags

Posts vs. Pages

August 3, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Should you use posts or pages for your content? On the surface, they are much the same in WordPress. They share a similar editing screen1. Both can accept comments and trackbacks. How do you decide which is best for you? If your site contains a blog of any variety — a … [Read more...] about Posts vs. Pages

WordPress excerpts, Posts and Pages, strategy, subscribers, taxonomy

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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