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Recently we showed you how to limit search results for specific post types in WordPress . Now we are going to show you how you can create different/multiple search forms altogether. This way each form can be limited to searching for a specific post type. Although this isn’t very hard it will require you to have a basic understanding of WordPress templates. First, you will need some search forms. Place the following code wherever you want them to be in your blog: <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/"> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="hidden" name="search-type" value="normal" /> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Go" /> </form> In order to specify what sort of search this form will be doing, just change the value of the hidden field. Right now it is set to “normal” but it can be anything you want. Next, we need to modify the search.php file. Open it up and replace everything in … [Read more...] about How to Use Multiple Search Forms In WordPress

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Do you want add bars and charts in WordPress? Visual aids like graph, bars, pie chart, and others are a perfect way to add data beautifully with your content. In this article, we will show you how to create bars and charts in WordPress with Visualizer WordPress Charts and Graphs plugin. The Problem with Bars and Charts in WordPress There are many WordPress plugins to add bars, charts, and graphs with your content. However, the most common complain we have heard from our users is that these plugins are usually too complicated to use. Some of these plugins even expect users to add data inside a shortcode in extremely complicated formats. Instead of using those plugins, many users end up creating chart in their office applications and converting them into an image. This could work if you are planning to never change it. However an image is no substitute to an interactive chart where helpful data appears when user takes their mouse over a particular section. An ideal … [Read more...] about How to Create Bars and Charts in WordPress with Visualizer

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By default WordPress excerpts are set to 55 words and there is an excerpt_length filter which allows you to change this default value to your length of choice. But what if you wanted a different excerpt length on different sections of your site? For example if you are developing a website with multiple post types you may want to show different excerpt lengths depending on the post type. A blog post may have a longer excerpt than for example a portfolio item. Custom Excerpt Function Below you will find a custom function we’ve developed to help you display excerpts at different lengths in WordPress. To use the function simply add it to your functions.php file and then you can go about replacing either the_excerpt or the_content functions throughout your theme so you can different excerpt lengths. function wpex_get_excerpt( $args = array() ) { // Defaults $defaults = array( 'post' => '', 'length' => 40, 'readmore' => false, 'readmore_text' … [Read more...] about How to Add Multiple Custom Excerpt Lengths In WordPress

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If you are not a big fan of working with the HTML editor in WordPress or want to provide some cool enhancements for your premium themes, shortcodes are a great solution for expanding the capabilities of your post editor while keeping things simple. I was thinking that it would be cool to add some sort of button to my site when providing links to free files or other sites (using shortcodes of course) so after adding the shortcode to my theme I figured I would share the code here on the blog so other people interested in adding button shortcodes to their site could simply copy and paste my code into their theme and not have to spend too much time making the shortcode and styling the button. What Are Shortcodes? Shortcodes were introduced back in WordPress 2.5 and they allow you to create macro codes for use in post content. A simple shortcode would look something like this: [shortcode] Which when added to the post editor will return the value of the shortcode as defined in your … [Read more...] about How to Add a Cool CSS3 Button Shortcode in WordPress

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Creating tables in WordPress is easy. There are traditional ways to add tables to WordPress with code, but by far the most convenient way to build a table (or chart) is with the wpDataTables WordPress plugin. It makes it extremely easy to import your table from various external sources, style it to your liking and add it to your website. Basic HTML Tables You can add tables to WordPress using standard HTML table tags . They’re fairly straight forward and use the following basic structure (just remember to enter them in the “text” tab when creating your post): <table style="width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="width: 33%;">First</th> <th style="width: 34%;">Second</th> <th style="width: 33%;">Third</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Jack</td> <td>Jackson</td> <td>25</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jane</td> <td>Jenson</td> <td>30</td> </tr> … [Read more...] about Create Stunning Responsive Tables In WordPress With wpDataTables

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