Well, the Random Article Widget inspired me somehow… Let’s say that we wanted a “Did you know that…” teaser to appear in the widget instead of an excerpt. Let’s say, for example, that we had an article about the grey whale. Our widget could show a trivia phrase such as: Did you know that the…
The last time it was a shortcode. Now it’s a widget. It will display the first few words of a randomly selected post along with its title and a link to the article itself. Here’s the code, and we’ll discuss it afterwards: Constructing a widget is a two-step procedure: defining it and registering it. To…
Comments is a common feature of all programming languages. Apart from their obvious original purpose, they offer coders another ability: They can temporarily deactivate a piece of code by commenting it out, rather than completely deleting it. Why shouldn’t authors have the same ability? Why shouldn’t they be able to deactivate a piece of content,…