Top 10 Wordpress Codes Every Designer Should Know

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Hello there! Here I collected a very great collection of 10 Wordpress codes that I consider the most commonly used by any Wordpress developer. The content was reformatted for quick reference from the Template Tag section of the WordPress.org Codex, a relative encyclopedia to WordPress themeing, and great reference for your WordPress questions.

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Here are the list of most commonly used Wordpress code snippets by designers. If I’ve missed any Wordpress code, please comment below.

Display Recent Posts

<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?>
or

<?php $recentposts = get_posts('numberposts=12&category=4');
foreach ($recentposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?>

Display Categories

<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name'); ?>
</ul>

Display Archives

<h2>Archives</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>

Display WordPress Tags Cloud

<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=8&largest=36&'); ?>

Display Blogroll

<ul> <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?> </ul>

Display WordPress Tags

<?php the_tags(); ?>

Display a Pages Menu

<h2>Pages</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
</ul>

Display Recent Comments

<?php
global $wpdb;
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID,
comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved,
comment_type,comment_author_url,
SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt
FROM $wpdb->comments
LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID =
$wpdb->posts.ID)
WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND
post_password = ''
ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC
LIMIT 10";
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
$output = $pre_HTML;
$output .= "\n<ul>";
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author)
.":" . "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID) .
"#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " .
$comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)
."</a></li>";
}
$output .= "\n</ul>";
$output .= $post_HTML;
echo $output;?>

Display Admin Section

<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">XHTML</a></li>
</ul>

Display Top Comments

<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT
comment_count,ID,post_title 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); ?>"
title="<?php echo $title ?>"><?php echo $title
?></a></li>
<?php } } ?>

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56 Comments
  1. These are pretty helpful for new folks, I had trouble finding them when i first started using wordpress. They surely will come in handy for many of like me out there, thanks bookmarked.
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  2. These codes are very useful and some of them are very important to know.
    Btw, I think one code is repeated twice, the wordpress tag code.
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  3. Excellent work. No doubt this codes are very important for the word press users. Thumbs up.
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  4. Display WordPress Tags is listed twice :)

    • adam permalink

      if you look carefully, tags isn’t repeated twice. One is for tag cloud, one is for tag list. They’re different.

  5. Thank you for the wp codes.I’m a beginner.
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  6. now, this is a saviour.

    thanks!!
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  7. Excellent. I was looking for one of these. Thanks a lot. :)
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  8. Thanks, this is a good reference for some of the codes I use frequently.
    Showing how to use these, such as the setup_postdata() call in the for loop, is a big help.

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  9. Its cool and pretty useful for newbies ! :)
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  10. Thanks, very useful article. But you have mentioned two times “Display WordPress Tags”, i have translated article into Russian and have added one more function (that was 10): http://neoprizma.net/2009/08/10/wordpress-functions/
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  11. nice compilations.

  12. nice wp code list, thanks..
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  13. I’m currently using weebly as my website/blog. Are there any generic HTML codes I could use? Or should I just switch over to wordpress at some point?

  14. Nice post. Thanks for the good snippets.
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  15. Thank You for your information, For visitor you can bookmark webpage online in Social bookmark.

  16. thank you for nice post

  17. mercime permalink

    Good job but please note that wp_list_cats is deprecated for some time aleady. You should be using the tag wp_list_categories
    Reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

  18. If to be honest I belong to the category of beginning designers, so I don’t know many thing yet. Hope that after reading this story I will get familiar with top Top 10 Wordpress Codes and will manage to apply them in practice.
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  19. Thanx for this nice article. But I had difficult time navigating around your website as I kept getting 502 bad gateway error. Just thought to let you know.

  20. ,..] http://www.cssreflex.com is one another must read source of information on this subject,..]

  21. Great selection thanks :-)

  22. I have migrated to wp from blogger recently.Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks a lot friend.
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