Sometimes you want to customize the RSS Feed just for a custom post type, and leave the default alone. Here’s a snippet you can add to your functions.php that will allow you to do just that. You will need to add your custom-feed.php which you can base on one of WordPress’s default feed templates, found […]

Here’s a useful function for displaying all of the related posts in a given taxonomy. I’ve used similar functions in the past in building a shortcode to display a list of the same custom post types that share a common taxonomy. function related_posts_by_taxonomy( $post_id, $taxonomy, $args=array() ) { $query = new WP_Query(); $terms = wp_get_object_terms( […]

Just add the following to your functions.php: // Remove automatic paragraphs remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ ); remove_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’ ); Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn

When a new user registers, you can change the default population of the Display Name and make it, e.g., Firstname Lastname. Here’s a snippet you can add to your functions.php: // Set Display Name to Firstname Lastname function set_default_display_name( $user_id ) { $user = get_userdata( $user_id ); $name = sprintf( ‘%s %s’, $user->first_name, $user->last_name ); […]

Just add the following to your functions.php: add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’); add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’); Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn

The easiest way to do this is to override the woocommerce_breadcrumb function. Add something like the following to your functions.php (obviously add whatever changes you want to make to the markup in the appropriate places): // Customize the WooCommerce breadcrumb if ( ! function_exists( ‘woocommerce_breadcrumb’ ) ) { function woocommerce_breadcrumb( $args = array() ) { […]

Simple: // Add a custom placeholder image location add_filter( ‘woocommerce_placeholder_img_src’, ‘custom_placeholder_img_src’); function custom_placeholder_img_src () { return ‘/assets/placeholder.png’; } Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn

Here’s a fun one. Let’s say you want to rename Cart to something else, like Bag or Briefcase. It can be tricky to find all of the places to make that change. You can, of course, edit the templates within WooCommerce, or even copy the templates into your theme to avoid crushing your changes when […]

This one bugged me on one site I was building, but the solution is pretty simple. Just add the following snippet to your functions.php: // Remove WooCommerce Catalog Ordering Dropdown remove_action( ‘woocommerce_pagination’, ‘woocommerce_catalog_ordering’, 20); Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn

On many of the sites I build, customers want clean HTML and as close to obfuscation for the platform as possible. That inevitably means removing various plugin generators. One in particular that’s tricky is WooCommerce due to the way it’s added with the global $woocommerce variable. To accomplish this feat, add the following to your […]