Banhawi

Support WP3.0 Custom Menus

Banhawi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:42:24 +0000

The new wordpress 3.0 custom menus feature is one of the best newly added features to wordpress that gives you more control on your menus every where on your web site .
Wordpress new custom menus works in simple two steps .

First : Register the menu

register_nav_menus( array( $location => $description ) );

Real Example

if ( function_exists( 'register_nav_menu' ) ) {
register_nav_menu( 'topnav', 'Top Navigation' );
}

you can register as many custom menus as you want .

Second : Place the menu

Now it’s time to place your menus where you want it to be showed on your theme

That’s it , now just play with your wordpress menu designer and have fun

Functions Used : register_nav_menus & wp_nav_menu

Wordpress 3.0 is Awesome

Banhawi — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:51:58 +0000

[Custom Function] Get Category Link by Name

Banhawi — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:30:34 +0000

I was working on a theme and i faced that problem , i wanted to get dynamically the category link using category names and there’s no function in wordpress to do that , so i’ve wrote a simple function that does what i need .
I’ve used get_cat_ID function to get category id using name , then get_category_link function to get category link using category id , very simple .

function get_category_link_byname($name) {
	$id = get_cat_ID($name);
	$link = get_category_link( $id );
	echo $link;
}

use this function as follows ,

and that’s it , hope you find it useful .

Banhawi’s Wordpress IDs , Classes & Tags Reference

Banhawi — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:33:54 +0000

Through my work i always look for a reference containing all the classes i may use within my wordpress work , so i’ve created that reference for myself and sharing it with you , hoping you find it helpful .

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One is better than 1000 ?

Banhawi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:54:56 +0000

Many webmasters trying to get as much backlinks as they can using white hat or black hat techniques , it’s not about the amount of backlinks your website has , it’s the quality of backlinks your website has . Read about google’s Page Rank Algorithm and you’ll see it’s all about quality .

what makes me sure it’s about quality not quantity , is my personal experience .

My small web firm’s web site got a Page Rank 6 within the first Page Rank update cycle , in that time the site just had 10 backlinks , one of these backlinks was from a non-profit organization with Page Ranks 7 .

Also i’ve another wordpress related website with more than 13K backlinks , and that site only has Page Rank 3 , so 13K backlinks got me Page Ranks 3 and 10 backlinks with one quality Page Rank 7 backlink got me Page Rank 6 .

That was my personal experience if you have any other experiences it’d be great if you share it with us through the comments section .