wordpress function cheat sheet

1.Theme Structure

header.php ...................... Header Section

index.php ......................... Main Section

sidebar.php .................... Sidebar Section

single.php ....................... Post Template

page.php ......................... Page Template

comments.php .................. Comment Template

search.php ...................... Search Content

searchform.php ............ Search Form Template

archive.php ................... Archive Template

functions.php ................ Special Functions

404.php .................... Error Page template

style.css .......................... Style Sheet

BlogInfo Tags

<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> ...........................Title of the blog

<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?> ........................The character set

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?> ..........The description of the blog

<?php bloginfo('url'); ?> ......................The address of the blog

<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?> .............................The RSS URL

<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?> .............The URL of the template

<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?> ....................The pingback URL

<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> The URL for the template's CSS file

<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?> .............URL for WordPress installation

<?php bloginfo('version'); ?> ....Version of the WordPress installation

<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?> ...............HTML version of the site

2.BlogInfo Tags

is_home() .......................When the user is on the blog home page

is_front_page() ......................When the user is on the home page

is_single() ..............................When the single post displayed

is_sticky() ..................................Check if a post is sticky

is_page() .....................................When a page is displayed

is_category() ..............................When a category is displayed

3.Theme Definition

/*

Theme Name: Wordpress Theme

Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/

Description: Test Blog

Version: 1.6

Author: Ekin Ertaç

Author URI: http://themesmart.org

Tags: powerful, cheat, sheet

*/

4.WordPress Template Tags

<?php the_title() ?> .....................Displays the posts/pages title

<?php the_content() ?> ............Displays the content of the post/page

<?php the_excerpt() ?> ....Displays the excerpt of the current post/page

<?php the_time() ?> ..........Displays the time of the current post/page

<?php the_date() ?> .....Displays the date of a post or set of post/page

<?php the_permalink() ?> .............Displays the URL for the permalink

<?php the_category() ?> .................Displays the category of a post

<?php the_author(); ?> ..................Displays the author of the post

<?php the_ID(); ?> ..........Displays the numeric ID of the current post

<?php wp_list_pages(); ?> ........................Displays all the pages

<?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?> ...........................Displays a tag cloud

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?> ........................Displays the categories

<?php get_calendar(); ?> ..........................Displays the calendar

<?php wp_get_archives() ?> ..........Displays a date-based archives list

<?php posts_nav_link(); ?> ...Displays Previous page and Next Page links

<?php next_post_link() ?> .....................Displays Newer Posts link

<?php previous_post_link() ?> ....................Displays previous link

<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit Post')); ?> ........Displays the edit link

<?php the_search_query();?> ................Value for search form

<?php wp_register();?> ................Displays the register link

<?php wp_loginout();?> ..............Displays the log in/out link

<?php wp_meta();?> .......................Meta for administrators

<?php timer_stop(1);?> .....................Time to load the page

<?php echo c2c_custom('test');?> ...... Displays the custom field1

<?php get_links_list(); ?> ...........Display links from Blogroll

<?php get_calendar(); ?> ..........Displays the built-in calendar

<?php comments_popup_link(); ?> .......Link of the posts comments

5.The Loop

<?php if(have_posts());?>

<?php while(have_posts()); the_post();?>

// The Stuff... Custom HTML & PHP Code

<?php else;?>

<?php endif;?>

6.The Category Based Loop

<?php query_posts('category_name=

Category&showposts=10'); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

// The Stuff... Custom HTML & PHP Code

<?php endwhile;?>

7.Template Include Tags

< ?php get_header(); ?>

< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>

< ?php get_footer(); ?>

< ?php comments_template(); ?>

8.Navigation Menu

Category Based Navigation

<ul id="menu">

<li <?php if(is_home()) { ?> class="current-cat"< ?php } ?>>

<a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">Home</a></li>

< ?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&orderby=id'); ?>

</ul>

Pages based Navigation

<ul id="menu">

<li <?php if(is_home()) { ?> class="current_page_item"< ?php } ?>>

<a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">home</a></li>

< ?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>

</ul>