DocuView - document management system » recent posts http://docuview.co.uk revolutionary web 2.0 document management system Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:50:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 customise the default size of avatars in WordPress 2.8+ http://docuview.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/customise-the-default-size-of-avatars-in-wordpress-2-8/ http://docuview.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/customise-the-default-size-of-avatars-in-wordpress-2-8/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:59:03 +0000 Martin Korych http://docuview.co.uk/?p=329 You know the drill: backup, upgrade WordPress, check plugin compatibility, verify everything is up and running and… reapply your hacks to the core of WP. I have talked about displaying the post excerpt in the recent posts widget few weeks ago, today I’m going to talk about resizing the Avatar image file displayed in comments.

So you’ve just finished upgrading, everything went smooth and you now have some time to amend the core of WordPress to accommodate for the hacks and workarounds you have implemented over the time. You have styled, laid out and customised your comments, you have changed the default size of Gravatar, Avatar or any other user pictures you display only to find them going back to default (32px × 32px) as soon as you upgrade.

Worry not! In order to change it back to what it was, head to: “wp-includes/comment-template”, locate line #1322 (function wp_list_comments()) and change the defaults array value (“avatar_size”) from 32 to anything you like (we use 50px), so the result will read:

$defaults = array('walker' => null, 'max_depth' => '', 'style' => 'ul', 'callback' => null, 'end-callback' => null, 'type' => 'all',
'page' => '', 'per_page' => '', 'avatar_size' => 50, 'reverse_top_level' => null, 'reverse_children' => '');

And zet is zit. Save and refresh your comments page and enjoy, your user icons and images are exactly big (or small) as intended.

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]]> http://docuview.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/customise-the-default-size-of-avatars-in-wordpress-2-8/feed/ 0 Display post excerpt in recent posts widget in WordPress – UPDATED June 2010 http://docuview.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/display-post-excerpt-in-recent-posts-widget-in-wordpress/ http://docuview.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/display-post-excerpt-in-recent-posts-widget-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:08:13 +0000 Martin Korych http://docuview.co.uk/?p=318 Everytime we upgrade to the latest version of WordPress (currently 2.8.1 3.0) we lose a bit of customising. Whether it’s the value of the search button in the search widget (hidden because of IE6′s and IE7′s disability to apply text-indent to form buttons) or the excerpt of our posts displayed in the widget on most of the pages disappears. For future reference and for people who don’t want to be searching for widgets to do that for them I’ve decided to describe how to quickly and easily get the job done – yourself!

First of all: the following only applies to WordPress 2.8 and later every WordPress installation we came across since 2.8 (including the most current 3.0).

  1. Open the default-widgets.php (to be found in the “wp-includes” folder of your blog)
  2. Insert “<?php    the_excerpt();    ?>” on line 553 (straight after 
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr(get_the_title() ? get_the_title() : get_the_ID()); ?>"><?php if ( get_the_title() ) the_title(); else the_ID(); ?> </a></li>
  3. Save
  4. Refresh a page with the widget displayed

Whilst I did look into installing a widget that would do this for me automatically I couldn’t find one that’d satisfy me. If you are using one please let me know which one, I’d love to consider automating the process. The reason I wrote this post is also because Google didn’t offer accurate enough or up-to-date results.

Helpful? Drop me a line… :)

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