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Adding a Last Updated date to your WordPress Post

February 23, 2018 by Kishore Leave a Comment

It is very important to keep all your posts and information updated. Rather than creating new posts with similar content, it is suggested to update the information on your website / blog so that the reader gets the right information. This post will show how to display WordPress last updated date for a post.

WordPress Last Updated Date for a Post

I usually keep updating my blog posts like adding new information or even updating outdated information, but the post date will be the date when I initially published the post.

I just added a few lines of code to display the Last Updated Date just before the post starts.

function addToContents($content) {
$updated='<strong>Last Updated: '.get_the_modified_date('F j, Y').' at '.get_the_modified_date('g:i a').'</strong>';
    if(is_single()) {
        $content = $updated.$content;
    }
}
add_action('the_content','addToContents');

You can add this code to the functions.php of your theme. I use a personal hacks WordPress Plugin to keep all my customisations at one place.

Why should you add the Last Updated Date to your Blog Post?

Gives the right Information to the reader
Shows How Old the content is
Not Sure, but will be helpful for search engines too.

Other WordPress Hacks

Customize Post Content as per Post Format

June 26, 2017 by Kishore Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress Post Format in your theme, then you can customize the way the post content should look.

function kishShowHomeArchContent($content) {
    if(is_singular()) {
        return $content;
    }
    else {
        $post_format=get_post_format();
        if ($post_format=='link') {
            $c=get_the_content();
            return strip_tags($c,'<blockquote><img><embed>').' - <a target="_blank" href="'. esc_url( kish_get_link_url() ).'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';
        }
        elseif ($post_format=='aside') {
            $c=get_the_content();
            return '<span><strong>'.get_the_title().' - </strong> '.$c.'</span><div style="clear:both;"></div>';
        }
        elseif ($post_format=='status') {
            $title='<h2>'.get_the_time('l, F j, Y , g:i A').'</h2>';
            return $title.$content;
        }
        elseif (in_array($post_format,array('image', 'status','video','chat','quote','gallery'))) {
            return $content;
        }
        else {
            $c=get_the_content();
            $readMore = '<a  class="btn btn-info" href="'.get_the_permalink().'">Read More</a>';
            return has_excerpt() ? get_the_excerpt() .$readMore: '<p>'.substr(strip_tags($c),0,150).'....</p>';
        }	
    }
}
add_filter('the_content','kishShowHomeArchContent',-1);

Add this code to your funtions.php in your theme folder.

My Custom Archive Page Header

June 25, 2017 by Kishore Leave a Comment

Check out the header of this blog. I am using the category image plugin, which is a good one and have been using for years now. I use Genesis theme. Using the below code, I have created this genesis full width header including the image for the category pages.

You can check out any of the category page of this blog, you will find this kind of header and the description.

function archiveHeader() {
    if(is_archive()) {
        if (function_exists('z_taxonomy_image')) {
            $imgurl='';
            $queried_object = get_queried_object();
            $term_id = $queried_object->term_id;
            $imgurl= z_taxonomy_image_url($term_id); 
            if(strlen($imgurl)>=10) {
                echo '<img class="single-featured-image" src="'.$imgurl.'">';
            }
	}
        echo '<div class="container" style="margin-bottom:10px;border-bottom: solid 1px #000;">';
            do_action('kish_archive_desc_title');
        echo '</div>';
    }
}
add_action( 'genesis_before_header', 'archiveHeader' );
remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_taxonomy_title_description', 15 );
add_action( 'kish_archive_desc_title', 'genesis_do_taxonomy_title_description',15 );

Please be sure that you are using the Genesis Framework

Further Reading – Genesis Bootstrap Framework

Another Genesis Theme Hack – Add your Genesis Affiliate Link in the footer

Custom Home Page – Genesis

March 18, 2017 by Kishore Leave a Comment

I wanted to have my home page with the posts that are updated. For example, I wrote a post which could be 5 years back and I feel that I need to update the post with the current status and I do it, but it does not show up on the home page. I thought that I need to modify the default home page query and show those posts too.

/** Ordery by modified date posts on homepage **/

add_action( 'pre_get_posts',  'order_by_modified_date'  );
function order_by_modified_date( $query ) {
    if ( is_home() )
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'modified' );
    return $query;
}

On the functions.php file of your theme, you can add this. Please note this is for Genesis theme as well as for regular themes

WordPress SSL site – Jetpack Issue

November 16, 2015 by Kishore 1 Comment

I was working on a website which is a secure site SSL installed accessed using https instead of http. Everything was working fine except the connectivity to Jetpack. I was unable to use the iOS WordPress Application, but other applications like MarsEdit, Windows Live Writer was working fine.

Solutions

Add the following code to the wp-config.php

/**
 * Set port to 443
 */
$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] = 443;

Having trouble with Jetpack or one of its components? Here are a few key steps that can help you solve the problem.

Source: Troubleshooting Tips