This is the first guess, right? But unfortunately, this doesn’t work…

<?php query_posts('page_id=5,9,10'); ?>

What you need to do instead is….

<?php
   $args = array('post_type' => 'page', 'post__in' => array(5,9,10));
   query_posts($args);
?>

I hope it helps someone who is looking for a solution.

Thanks to MichaelH for this code. Awesome!

Yes, it’s true, as soon as the plugin is activated, a lots of JavaScript function broke in the Wordpress backend. Fon instance, we can’t change permalink, can’t change publish date, publish status..etc. Don’t worry, it’s easy to fix until the next version is released.

1. Find line 136 on “more-fields-object.php” in the plugin folder.

function wp_default_scripts(&$scripts) {
	$src = get_option('home') . '/wp-content/plugins/more-fields/post.js';
	$scripts->registered['post']->src = $src;
}

2. swap “registerd” bit with “add_data” like below.

function wp_default_scripts(&$scripts) {
	$src = get_option('home') . '/wp-content/plugins/more-fields/post.js';
	$scripts->add_data['post']->src = $src;
}

Then everything working fine for now.
Anyway, I really hope the plugin author fix this issue with the next version.

1. Let’s say your feed URL is…

http://yourdomain.com/feed

and find it in header.php in your theme.

2. If you want to exclude a category whose ID is let’s say “5″, then you can do….

http://yourdomain.com/feed?cat=-5

3. If you want to exclude another category whose ID is “10″

http://yourdomain.com/feed?cat=-5&cat=-10

That’s it! Really easy isn’t it?

The users can show their route using Google Map feature, add posts, photos, travel tips and be in touch with friends through every social media channel.

Some of the main features of the theme are:

• Featured articles rotator lets you scroll the posts from Featured category without refreshing the page.
• NattyWP Google Map feature lets you add your travel map or current location.
• Networks widget with all popular social networks. Stay connected.
• A completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging.
• Completely CSS color controlled, offering you the most flexibility and the easiest customization, allowing you to change the colors of your entire site on the fly in seconds.
• Amazing typography styles. Sample.
• 8 custom NattyWP widgets.
• 4 different styles to choose from.

The design is also quite nice. I’m not very fan of the background, but I think the content area has a nice neat and clean design with a well cared typography. And the single theme package is just $25!

To achieve this, each navigation item would need to be sorrounded by span tag. When we hard-code the navigation it’s not a problem, but when we have to use wp_list_categories or wp_list_pages, it’s becoming a problem.

However, this snippet adds tag inside list item. You can just paste this into your header.php or a template files where you want to show navigation.

<?php 
	echo preg_replace('@\<li([^>]*)>\<a([^>]*)>(.*?)\<\/a>@i', '<li$1><a$2><span>$3</span></a>',wp_list_categories('echo=0&orderby=id&title_li=&depth=1')); 
?>

Of course you can use this for page navigation too, you just swap wp_list_categories with wp_list_pages.

This week I’ve been working on three different Wordpress sites, and as usual, I have a bunch of new Wordpress ‘magic tricks’ :)

Twittar.
A plugin that Loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address. If user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it first tries to load user’s gravatar. If user doesn’t have a gravatar, it loads a default image.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/08/twitter-avatars-in-comments-wordpress-plugin/

Tweet Blender.
Another Wordpress Twitter widget but with support for for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together.  It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

http://kirill-novitchenko.com/tweet-blender/

Cimy user extra fields
A plugin that allows us to create extra fields in the user profile registration page. This means we will be able to display dynamically any kind of information we want about our users.
http://www.marcocimmino.net/cimy-wordpress-plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/

Video comments.
I know it’s a controversial plugin but it takes the online conversation to an even more interactive and engaging level by allowing readers to add a video or audio comment from their own web cam. It also works perfectly!

http://riffly.com/

I also found stumbling an old but yet very useful post with an awesome list of Free Wordpress themes in Smashing Magazines.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/18/100-amazing-free-wordpress-themes-for-2009/

Have a nice week!

<?php
function limit_title($title, $n){
	if ( strlen ($title) > $n ){
		echo substr(the_title($before = ”, $after = ”, FALSE), 0, $n) . ‘…’;
	}else{ 
		the_title();
	}
}
?>

2. To use this function simply change the number of characters and paste it to your template file in where you want to limit the characters on post title.

<?php limit_title($post->post_title, 30); ?>

Thanks to WP Geek for this code

1. Paste this code in your theme’s function.php, and change ‘FirstCat’ and ‘SecondCat’ to category names that you want to exclude from the list.

<?php
function incomplete_cat_list($separator) {
	$first_time = 1;
  	foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
    	if ($category->cat_name != 'FirstCat' && $category->cat_name != 'SecondCat') {
      		if ($first_time == 1) {
        		echo '<a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>'  . $category->name.'</a>';
        		$first_time = 0;
      		} else {
        		echo $separator . '<a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a>';
      		}
    	}
  	}
}
?>

2. To use this function, istead of using the_category(); paste this code in your index.php or single.php

<?php incomplete_cat_list(', '); ?>

Thanks to Technokinetics for this great piece of code.