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How to Remove Curly Quotes From Your Posts and Comments

By Santiago on March 20, 2009

When copy and paste some php code you found on a website and find out that all of the quotation and apostrophe marks were causing errors? This is because of the way Wordpress styles these punctuation marks to make them more aesthetically pleasing. Just paste this code into your functions.php file and correct this.

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How to Display a List of Allowed HTML Tags for Use in Comments

By Santiago on March 19, 2009

List of all of the allowed HTML tags right above the comment form. How to do that in WordPress? Easy: Feel free to use: <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?>.

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How to Add a Unique Identifier to Each Comment

By Santiago on March 14, 2009

Easy, trick is by giving each comment a unique identifier. To do this, simple make use of “the_ID” in The Loop.

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How to Separate Trackbacks / Pingbacks and Actual Comments

By Santiago on March 13, 2009

The comment area of your posts should be a place where your readers can talk and discuss things with you and eachother. It’s annoying if this discussion is interrupted by a few trackback announcements. Tidy up the comment area by putting the comments in one pile and the trackbacks in another.

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