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How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog

pearsonified.com — Fortunately, savvy users like you can solve this problem by creating a user-defined functions file that will work with any WordPress theme. The idea here is to place all of your common, customized design elements —like an author bio or a sales widget for your sidebar, for instance—within functions that reside in a separate, non-theme file.

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  • lucidguru, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately there is still no easy way to customize a theme... ARGH!
  • Pottypotsworth, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2This is a decent article, since wordpress needs updating all the time anything you can do to not ruin your custom code is surely helpful. Wordpress are doing a good job at modularising the code to make updating a lot easier.
  • Tinu, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Maybe I'm a jackass, but instead of learning cool neat things from this article, I really just want him to make my theme work. :) No, wait, I'm definitely a jackass, at least from 10 to 1 pm Central. The rest of that stands though.

  • shadowspawn, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Dugg for simply wondering how long until it goes down.
  • Datasta, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3the Functions.php really is one of the coolest things in Wordpress. It really makes it the best blog CMS out there.
    • gtfbfan, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Using the functions file is identical to using a plugin, except that you don't have to deal with the PHP syntax and file header info that is required to create a plugin.

      Personally, I think average bloggers can understand this method more easily, but as always, YMMV.
      • Tinu, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1I think a lot of people *can* understand this, it's just the actual time factor of reading about it, learning it and doing it, if you have a whole professional life of which blogging is only one aspect.
  • bulletproofbox, on 07/06/2008, -0/+0A cool, simple article that shows you easy ways to add new functionality to your blog posts on Wordpress.
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