define("FTP_HOST", "mywebsite.com");
define("FTP_USER", "username");
define("FTP_PASS", "mypassword");

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Make your WordPress theme translatable

Using the power of .po files and this short code snippets, you can make your WordPress theme available in a wide variety of languages. This code have to be pasted in your functions.php file. The .po files should be located under your wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/languages directory.

// Make theme available for translation
// Translations can be filed in the /languages/ directory
load_theme_textdomain( 'your-theme', TEMPLATEPATH . '/languages' );

$locale = get_locale();
$locale_file = TEMPLATEPATH . "/languages/$locale.php";
if ( is_readable($locale_file) )
	require_once($locale_file);

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First to do this, add the following lines to your functions.php file:

function getTrimUrl($url) {
  $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://api.tr.im/api/trim_simple?url=".$url);
  return $tinyurl;
}

Now, copy and paste the following code in your single.php file anywhere inside the loop:

<?php
$turl = getTrimUrl(get_permalink($post->ID));
echo 'Short Url for this post: <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>'
?>

There you go! Your WordPress blog will now automatically generate tr.im URL’s.

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Want to hide portions of text in a specific post or page from google? Well, this is probably one of the simplest things you could do, but it is often now known of and overlooked. Here are is the code that you can use to hide text from google:

This text will be indexed by Google...
<!--googleoff: all--> ...but not that one! <!--googleon: all>

All of the text and code within those codes will not be indexed by Google. Simple huh?

Source

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Categories can be shown in a drop-down menu with no problem whatsoever, so shouldn’t the same concept apply to that of tag clouds? Well WP Hacks and figured out a way to do just that, with very little effort.

First, copy and paste the following code into your functions.php file:

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<?php
function dropdown_tag_cloud( $args = '' ) {
	$defaults = array(
		'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
		'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
		'exclude' => '', 'include' => ''
	);
	$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
 
	$tags = get_tags( array_merge($args, array('orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC')) ); // Always query top tags
 
	if ( empty($tags) )
		return;
 
	$return = dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args ); // Here's where those top tags get sorted according to $args
	if ( is_wp_error( $return ) )
		return false;
	else
		echo apply_filters( 'dropdown_tag_cloud', $return, $args );
}
 
function dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args = '' ) {
	global $wp_rewrite;
	$defaults = array(
		'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
		'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC'
	);
	$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
	extract($args);
 
	if ( !$tags )
		return;
	$counts = $tag_links = array();
	foreach ( (array) $tags as $tag ) {
		$counts[$tag->name] = $tag->count;
		$tag_links[$tag->name] = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
		if ( is_wp_error( $tag_links[$tag->name] ) )
			return $tag_links[$tag->name];
		$tag_ids[$tag->name] = $tag->term_id;
	}
 
	$min_count = min($counts);
	$spread = max($counts) - $min_count;
	if ( $spread <= 0 )
		$spread = 1;
	$font_spread = $largest - $smallest;
	if ( $font_spread <= 0 )
		$font_spread = 1;
	$font_step = $font_spread / $spread;
 
	// SQL cannot save you; this is a second (potentially different) sort on a subset of data.
	if ( 'name' == $orderby )
		uksort($counts, 'strnatcasecmp');
	else
		asort($counts);
 
	if ( 'DESC' == $order )
		$counts = array_reverse( $counts, true );
 
	$a = array();
 
	$rel = ( is_object($wp_rewrite) && $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) ? ' rel="tag"' : '';
 
	foreach ( $counts as $tag => $count ) {
		$tag_id = $tag_ids[$tag];
		$tag_link = clean_url($tag_links[$tag]);
		$tag = str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', wp_specialchars( $tag ));
		$a[] = "\t<option value='$tag_link'>$tag ($count)</option>";
	}
 
	switch ( $format ) :
	case 'array' :
		$return =& $a;
		break;
	case 'list' :
		$return = "<ul class='wp-tag-cloud'>\n\t<li>";
		$return .= join("</li>\n\t<li>", $a);
		$return .= "</li>\n</ul>\n";
		break;
	default :
		$return = join("\n", $a);
		break;
	endswitch;
 
	return apply_filters( 'dropdown_generate_tag_cloud', $return, $tags, $args );
}
?>

Now, just paste the following code wherever you want your drop-down menu of tags to show (usually in the sidebar.php file):

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<select name="tag-dropdown" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
	<option value="#">Liste d'auteurs</option>
	<?php dropdown_tag_cloud('number=0&order=asc'); ?>
</select>

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Here’s that code, and you can place it anywhere that suits your needs:

<?php echo date('l jS F Y'); ?>

You can futher format the date, but that seems like a little too much for me to get into. You can check out further documentation on that at the official php website.

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To first create the function for the task that we are going to do, copy and paste the following code into your theme’s functions.php file:

if (!function_exists('get_the_modified_author')) {
  function get_the_modified_author() {
    global $post;
    if ( $last_id = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_edit_last', true) ) {
      $last_user = get_userdata($last_id);
      return apply_filters('the_modified_author', $last_user->display_name);
    }
  }
}

if (!function_exists('the_modified_author')) {
  function the_modified_author() {
    echo get_the_modified_author();
  }
}

If you know what all of that mumbo-jumbo (php) means, then you should know that it’s as simple as pasting:

<?php the_modified_author(); ?>

anywhere you want for the modified author of any given post. Just make sure that you put that code within you’re WordPress theme’s loop somewhere.

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Make note though, this text will show on all of the posts that you make after you modify the theme file, so it will not show up on any of your past posts that you have made.

How do you accomplish this hack? Well, open up your theme’s functions.php file, and copy and paste the following code:

<?php
add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content' );
function my_editor_content( $content ) {
	$content = "This is some custom content I'm adding to the post editor because I hate re-typing it.";
	return $content;
}
?>

After doing that, you can change the text to whatever you want, and if you want to, can edit it with some xhtml-markup. And that’s it!

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Just place the following code anywhere in your template for the number of registered users on your WordPress blog to be shown:

$users = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM $wpdb->users");
echo $users." registered users.";

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If you want to show the username of a logged-in user in some place other than the meta sidebar widget that comes pre-loaded with WordPress, you can do so by placing the following code anywhere in your WordPress theme, and it will accomplish this simple task:

<?php global $current_user; if ( isset($current_user) ) {     echo $current_user->user_login; } ?>

Thanks Pro Blog Tutorials for this simple little WordPress hack!

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