Filter caption-Shortcode in WordPress

Posted in: WordPress Hacks

The title may not speak for itself and therefore I will explain a little more on the topic and do not just put a code snippets on this post.

If you use the „Mediauploader“ in WordPress not just to load images, but also for integration in the post or page, then a Shortcode will be created and be insert in the content if you leave a picture title for this picture. The title should be maintained, because it will be used as alt-attribute to the img-Tag.

Not every user is satisfied with this issue and I’ll show, how you can change the output.
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Tweet This with WordPress

Posted in: WordPress Themes

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Twitter seems to continue to gain in popularity and one or the other has even completely move – not a blog anymore, only an address in Twitter.

After going through my subscriptions in my feed reader, I noticed several articles where one or the other Plugin was recommended, which place a Twitter button to recommend an article on your Twitter. Most Plugins have a function that takes place in the template of the integrated theme.

As so often, this is a little exaggerated, and as in the past with the inclusion of links to social bookmark services, there is also a simple solution with the help of a function in the WordPress core.

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rel=”canonical”-URL for WordPress Theme

Posted in: WordPress Hacks

Duplicate content is always an issue in search engines, especially in the context of content management systems and blogging applications. Therefore, they decided together (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) for a notice using the link tag.

In essence, provides the tag with the rel attribute canonical only a reference to the preferred URL. Once again a new discussion started in the WP Hacker List about this new possibility, which I can not understand. WordPress offers plenty of opportunities so that this form is not necessary to be included in the core, there is sufficiently different and more important topics and the content of a theme should be broadly still lie with the developer. I will show you in this post a simple and quick way to integrate the attribute.
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