A. Embed Google Adsense In First WordPress Post
To place an ad after the first post title in your WordPress blog main page
- Open the WordPress admin control panel and navigate to: Presentation > Theme Editor
- Select the Main Index Template (index.php) from the list of templates on the right.
- In the Main Index Template, find the line that starts with:
<?php if (have_posts())
- Add the following line above it:
<?php $count = 1; ?>
- Next, find the line that starts with:
<?php the_content
- After the closing tag ?> for that section (it may wrap to multiple lines), add the following code:
<?php if ($count == 1) : ?>
– Insert your Google AdSense code here –
<?php endif; $count++; ?> - Click Update File.
Source: http://www.devtopics.com/embed-google-ad-in-first-wordpress-post/
B. Adding Comment Numbers To Your WordPress Theme
Here are the steps you can take to easily add numbers to your WordPress theme’s comments section.
- First thing you will want to do is create a backup your comments.php file.
- Locate the comments.php file.
- Locate the code that starts the comment loop. It will look something like this:
<?php if ( $comments ) : ?>
- Place this code immediately above the code in Step 3:
<?php $i = 0; ?>
- Now locate the code that looks like this:
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
- Placed this code immediately below the code in Step 5:
<?php $i++; ?>
- Now use this code where you want to display your comment numbers:
<span class=”count”>
<?php echo $i; ?>
</span> - Click Save.
- Now go to your stylesheet (style.css) and place this code anywhere on the stylesheet (probably best placed in the comments section):
.count {
float:right;
padding: 10px;
font-size:18px;
color:#000000;
}
Source: http://wphacks.com/how-to-adding-comment-numbers-to-your-wordpress-theme
C. Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks
- Access your comments.php file and locate the following code:
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
- Immediately after the above code, you’ll want to place this code:
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type == ‘comment’) { ?> - Next, you’ll want to scroll down a little bit and locate the following code:
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
- Immediately before the above code, you’ll want to place this code:
<?php } /* End of is_comment statement */ ?>
This will filter out all of the trackbacks and pingbacks from your main comments loop. Now we need to create a second comments loop to display the trackbacks and pingbacks. - Almost immediately below the code from step 2 you should find this code:
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
Immediately before the above code, you’ll want to place this code:
<h3>Trackbacks</h3>
You can adjust this code to display how you want to, including using a different header if you have a specific look for your header 3.
<ol>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type != ‘comment’) { ?>
<li><?php comment_author_link() ?></li>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ol>
D. Display the most commented posts
Copy and paste following code to your wordpress themes to display most commented post.
<h2>Most commented posts</h2>Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-the-most-commented-posts-of-2008
<ul>
<?php
$result = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10″);
foreach ($result as $topten) {
$postid = $topten->ID;
$title = $topten->post_title;
$commentcount = $topten->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) {
?>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>”><?php echo $title ?></a></li>
<?php }
}
?>
E. WordPress Recent Posts from specific category
<ul>Replace catID with post category to be displayed.
<?php $recent = new WP_Query(“cat=catID&showposts=10″); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
Please follow the instructions below:
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