WordPress Attachment Page Template Code Snippets

Date: 15th November 2009 at 4:25 am | Filed under: scripts, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , , ,

I haven't written as many WordPress tutorials as usual lately, as I have been so busy building websites and blogs, so I thought I would take the time out to share a few WordPress codes I have developed recently for attachment page templates and specifically the image attachment page template. The attachment page template is the page that displays a single image when the images link URL is set to 'Post URL'. You can set the image's link URL when inserting a single image into a post, and also when using the gallery shortcode.

The codes in this article are mostly applicable to images inserted using the gallery shortcode as they are most useful for posts or pages that have multiple image attachments. Read more about using image and file attachments.

These template codes can be added to your WordPress theme using the attachment.php and image.php files. If these template files do not exist in your theme you can create them, or WordPress will default to using single.php or index.php to show attachments by default. (See more about template hierarchy).

If you don't want to create a seperate image.php or attachment.php template you can always edit the index.php or single.php files and wrap the attachment specific codes in the is_attachment clause like so:

if(is_attachment()){
//attachment page specific code goes here
}

These php functions are loosely based on code I found in this article: Adding text links to WordPress Gallery by Michael Fields. In this article he provides code examples of how to show previous and next thumbnail links in a WP attachment page. I also made use of this previous-next keys in array function which is infinitely useful!

My first set of functions will return text links for previous image, next image and back to gallery. The functions themselves will need to be added to your theme's functions.php file before calling them in your image.php or attachment.php files. So here we go:
Read on…

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aprettypenny.co.uk - Retro, antique & collectables store

Date: 26th October 2009 at 12:51 am | Filed under: portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags:

A Pretty Penny is a new online store for everything retro and collectable including a wide range of designer glass and ceramics.  I would highly recommend it as a place to get quirky, unusual Christmas presents! I built the store on the free shop script platform (which uses Smarty templates).

Screenshot:

app-screen

The store is now open. Check it out: www.aprettypenny.co.uk

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WordPress Tips - Removing The Title Attribute From wp_list_categories & wp_list_pages

Date: 29th January 2009 at 11:47 pm | Filed under: development, scripts, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

I noticed in the WordPress forums that a lot of people were asking how to remove the title="example" attribute from the links generated by the WordPress template tags wp_list_categories and wp_list_pages. The title attribute is what generates the little text box with something like "View all posts filed under <category>" when you hover over a link.

I had previously devised a 'hack' for removing the dreaded title attribute for a theme I worked on. The key is to set the 'echo' parameter of the function to '0' and then to use preg_replace code to remove the title attribute. Here is the code:

wp_list_categories:

<?php
$cool_cats = wp_list_categories('echo=0');
$cool_cats = preg_replace('/title=\"(.*?)\"/','',$cool_cats);
echo $cool_cats;
?>

wp_list_pages:

<?php
$clean_page_list = wp_list_pages('echo=0');
$clean_page_list = preg_replace('/title=\"(.*?)\"/','',$clean_page_list);
echo $clean_page_list;
?>

Personally I don't mind having the titles on my site navigation, and I use the NAVT plugin to generate my nav, so the template tags don't apply for me.

16 Responses to “WordPress Tips - Removing The Title Attribute From wp_list_categories & wp_list_pages”

  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: January 29th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

    WordPress Tips - Removing The Title Attribute From wp_list_categories & wp_list_pages | Sam Burdge…

    I noticed in the WordPress forums that a lot of people were asking how to remove the title=”example” attribute from the links generated by the WordPress template tags wp_list_categories and wp_list_pages. The title attribute is what generates the lit…

  • Comment by tom
    Date: February 10th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Where would I place the code snippet for wp_list_pages?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: February 10th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Hi Tom

    The code snippet above is meant to replace the existing wp_list_pages function used in your theme.

    wp_list_pages is usually called in either header.php, footer.php or sidebar.php of your theme.

    More info about wp_list_pages here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

    Sam

  • Comment by Sumit Khanna
    Date: April 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Thanks for the code snippit! I had started using nicetitles for http://chattanoogaswing.org and then noticed that wp_list_pages added tiles to all the links!

    The calendar I was using doesn’t add a class for the dates I wanted the tooltips on. If it did, I could just modify the nicetitles javascript to only select that class of element.

    Using your little regex to remove the titles form wp_list_pages is much easier!

    Also, cool theme you’ve got going on here. I like the green-on-black console look.

  • Comment by Designs Genius
    Date: May 19th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    thanx a lot for this tip !.
    I have another question for everybody : How can I remove a hyperlink from wp_list_pages, but only from the first ul in the heirachy ?
    thx for all who will consider my question ! :)

    Sébastien from France

  • Comment by Frank Karlstrøm
    Date: June 17th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    Yet another thank you from me. Have been looking for a plugin to do this, but this is even better. Do you think it’s better for me to write a private plugin implementing this small little code? to avoid the snippet to be removed when I upgrade WP.

  • Comment by Robert Carro
    Date: July 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    W9xinK great tips. I enjoyed reading this,

  • Comment by coda
    Date: July 29th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!

  • Comment by norton
    Date: September 10th, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    Thanks a lot . I needed to remove the “title-attribute” because of a firefox(macOs)-bug that would always reload the dropdown after stoping to move the mouse on it.
    This would not happen if there was no “title-attribute” anymore. To figure out this already took forever. This code finally make my dropdowns work like they should.

  • Comment by JR
    Date: September 11th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    What happens if it isn’t hard coded into the theme and WP seems to be generating them of its own accord? What file do I need to edit?

  • Comment by Matt Furtado
    Date: September 16th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    For the wp_list_categories hack, how would I get the category name to display instead of “View all posts filed under “? Is there a simple hack that I’m not aware of?

  • Comment by Matt Brewster
    Date: September 18th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Great tip - many thanks :)

  • Comment by Will Stern
    Date: October 8th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    You rock. Great post.
    To answer JR, and anybody else wondering, open your header.php and look for replace it with his code.
    If there are specifics in your brackets, make sure to include them in his code in addition to echo=0
    Mine looks like this: $clean_page_list = wp_list_pages(’title_li=&depth=2&echo=0′);

  • Comment by Will Stern
    Date: October 8th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    meant to say look for the php calling wp_list_pages() …the php code got cut out. :(

  • Comment by fatihturan
    Date: November 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Good tip. Thanks.

  • Comment by Tim Holt
    Date: January 4th, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Those who aren’t comfortable editing their theme files can use the Remove Title Attributes plugin to solve this problem.

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Basic HTML Template (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)

Date: 18th January 2009 at 11:44 pm | Filed under: scripts | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: ,

When starting a fresh HTML site it is very useful to have a basic HTML template to use. This template should include:

  • Doctype declaration
  • Head and body tags
  • Title tags
  • Most commonly used meta tags
  • Include for a CSS style-sheet

Having an empty template document will save you time, and will ensure that you don't forget to include any of the most important features of the html page structure. This template should serve as a 'blank canvas' as it were, rather than starting with a completely blank document every time. Here is an example of my template for XHTML 1.0, which can also be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this article:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
 
<title>HTML Template</title>
 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<style type="text/css">
@import url(style.css );
</style>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
</body>
</html>

DOCTYPE:

The doctype declaration (DTD) is important as it tells the browser what type of HTML you are using, and therefore which conventions you will need to follow when coding the site's content. For more information on this check out this Recommended  list of DTDs to use in your Web document.

TITLE:

This is the title that appears at the top of the browser window, it is also the title that appears in the google listing for your page. It is good practice to have a different title for each page of your site. The title can be split into two parts:

  1. The name of your site
  2. A description of the page

resulting in something like:  UK Diving - The worlds largest internet resource for divers (Site name - Site description) or:  UK Diving - Contact Us (Site name - Page description).

STYLE-SHEET:

The stylesheet provides all the colour, layout and text-formatting styles for your html page, it is written in CSS (Cascading Style Sheet).  Please refer to this document on Cascading Style Sheets for more info about CSS. The style-sheet can actually be written entirely between the two style tags, but I prefer to include it as a separate document, as this can be easily included in every page of the site, and once it is stored in the users cache it will also save on page loading time. The style-sheet in my example template is called 'style.css'.

META TAGS:

I use three basic meta tags in my HTML template:

  1. Content type — This tells the browser which character set you are using. In my template I use UTF-8.
  2. Description — This is the description of your page that appears in search engine listings.
  3. Keywords — A list of key words and phrases that relate to your page,  seperated by commas. This is for search engine purposes too.

ABOUT WRITING XHTML 1.0:

Here are some of the rules of XHTML 1.0.

All nested tags must be closed in the reverse order in which they are opened:

<div><span>Hello</span></div> = Correct
<div><span>Hello</div></span> = Incorrect

All tags that don't have a closing tag must be treated as self-closing with a backslash:

<img src="test.jpg" /> = Correct
<img src="test.jpg"> = Incorrect
<br /> = Correct
<br> = Incorrect

All special characters must be encoded correctly:

& = incorrect
&amp; = correct

Please feel free to use my template as a basis for your HTML pages. You can also test your HTML markup for errors using the online W3 markup validator, or the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox.

DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE:


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  • Comment by pressitfor.me
    Date: January 22nd, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    Basic HTML Template (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) | Sam Burdge…

    Having an empty template document will save you time, and will ensure that you don’t forget to include any of the most important features of the html page structure. This template should serve as a ‘blank canvas’ as it were, rather than starting wit…

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76 digital remix - Home Page Template Preview

Date: 28th December 2008 at 6:26 pm | Filed under: blog, themes, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , ,

A quick update on my soon to be released 76 digital remix theme... Here is a sneak preview of one of the possible custom home page templates which will be fully configurable:  News  Feed  Home Page Template

Screenshots of some of the different layouts and color schemes, and of course the different flash site headers will be published here soon, so stay tuned for more sneak previews!

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