Wordpress Tips

For a private wordpress site I have been using a custom comments table. It just has an added row where people rate the business. Everything is included in the comments table where I don’t need to make a custom table for the ip address, the name, blah blah blah. So now with wordpress 2.9 they have added custom fields for comments so this eliminates the use of me having to do this, YAAAA!

Using custom fields for comments is just like using custom fields for wordpress.

So instead of using: update_post_meta('postid', 'customfield', 'customfieldvalue');

We now use: update_comment_meta('postid', 'customfield', 'customfieldvalue');

So in your plugin or functions.php file you can just do this:

add_action('comment_post','comment_rating');
function comment_rating($comment_id) {
global $wpdb, $user_identity, $user_ID;
$star = $_POST['rating'];
update_comment_meta('postid', 'rating', $star);
}

Again you need to add a rating drop down in your comments.php file (example): <input type=”radio” name=”rating” id=”vote1″ value=”1″ />

I wanted to show when a post was last edited and who it was last edited by. If there s a function for this, I don’t know, but I found this on the wordpress forums and it works great.

<?php

$post_ID = get_the_ID(); 

if ( $last_id = get_post_meta($post_ID, '_edit_last', true) ) {
	$last_user = get_userdata($last_id);
	printf(__('Last edited by %1$s on %2$s at %3$s'), wp_specialchars( $last_user->display_name ), mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $post->post_modified), mysql2date(get_option('time_format'), 

$post->post_modified));
};

?>

With this code you have the ability to remove images or remove the text and only show the images, or a flash embed code, with preg replace or however you want to.

<?php $content = get_the_content() ?>

Below will remove all images from your post and only display text:

<?php $no_images_content = preg_replace('/<img[^>]+./','', $content); ?>

And then you just echo out the php variable and no images will be displayed:

<?php echo $no_images_content; ?>