coreyweb

<?php
  // put this code in the theme's functions.php file

  function trim_excerpt($text) {
    return rtrim($text,'[...]');
  }

  add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'trim_excerpt')
?>

coreyweb

<?php

  // place this in your theme's function.php file
  
  function the_category_filter($thelist,$separator=' ') {

    if(!defined('WP_ADMIN')) {

      //list the category names to exclude
      $exclude = array('Some Category','Another Category','Blah Blah Blah');

coreyweb

// Some custom styling examples
/* category pagination */
.pagination { 
  margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 10px 0; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.page-numbers {
  font-family:proxima-nova,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  
  font-weight: normal;
  font-size: 15px;
}

coreyweb

LargeImage:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jK517l%2BBL.jpg

MediumImage: (adds '._SL160_' to the LargeImage URL)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jK517l%2BBL._SL160_.jpg

SmallImage: (adds '._SL75_' to the LargeImage URL)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jK517l%2BBL._SL75_.jpg

coreyweb

<?php // show a random video from the last 10 posts in the video category 

  $vidCount = rand(0, 9); 

  $my_query = new WP_Query( 
    array(
      "cat" => 11, 
      "showposts" => 1, 
      "offset" => $vidCount, 
      "post__not_in" => array($post->ID) // exclude the current post from the list

coreyweb

<?php
/**
 * Display a list of the 10 most commented posts (WordPress)
 * @author Corey Brown https://github.com/coreyweb
 * @author Aaron Collegeman: https://github.com/collegeman
 * @author Joey Blake: https://github.com/joeyblake
 *
 * Rules:
 * - show a list of 10 posts
 * - published any time

coreyweb

<?php /*

Get a list of all pages on a site, by their template name.

This is useful in determining which custom page templates are in use (and the reverse: which are not)

source: Jorge Pedret
http://jorgepedret.com/web-development/get-pages-by-template-name-in-wordpress/

*/

coreyweb

<?php
/**
 * Resize images dynamically using wp built in functions.
 * @author Victor Teixeira http://profiles.wordpress.org/vteixeira/
 * @author Aaron Collegeman http://aaroncollegeman.com
 * @see http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15311
 *
 * @coreyweb's note: I asked Aaron to simplify Victor's original by excluding 
 * the lookup to see if the original image is big enough to render the newly sized image.
 * Our themes don't increase image sizes (ever), and if they did, they would

coreyweb

<?php
  // Convert URL's with protocol prefix
    $tweet = ereg_replace("[a-zA-Z]+://([-]*[.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-?&%])*", "<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>", $tweet);

  //Convert URL with just www.
    $tweet = ereg_replace("(^| |\n)(www([-]*[.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-?&%])*)", "\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\">\\2</a>", $tweet);

  //Convert # hashtags
    $tweet = ereg_replace("(^| |\n)(\#([-]*[.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-?&%])*)", "\\1<a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=\\2\">\\2</a>", $tweet);
    $tweet = str_replace("/#", "/", $tweet);

coreyweb

<?php
// Soundcloud has a shortcode for WordPress.com, 
// but it doesn't work on self-hosted WordPress sites.
// To make the standard shortcode work, add this to your functions.php file.
// Here is what Soundcloud's "WordPress Code" shortcode looks like:
// [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/95232600" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]

  function soundcloud( $atts, $url='' ) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
      'url' => 'http://',