Amazing WordPress hacks part 2

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Ok, here it is! The second part of Amazing WordPress hacks article, hope you'll enjoy this one as you did the part one where we have learned how to forward section pages, Grab the textual content of a Post, Load a stylesheet with dynamic values dependent on the Page view, set Post Expiration time and date etc.

And now we will see how to set Post Expiration time and date in another way, Secure your wp-includes folder and how to make Wordpress Static HTML Template. There's going to be some more interesting WordPress articles so stay tuned!

Wordpress post expiration code (option two)

 
*** enter a custom field with the key "expiration" and set the value in the format "2007/01/01" ***
***PUT THIS INSIDE THE LOOP, FIRST THING***
<?php  //to check against expiration date;
 
$currentdate = date("Ymd");
$expirationdate = get_post_custom_values('expiration');
if (is_null($expirationdate)) {
	$expirestring = '30005050'; //MAKE UN-EXPIRING POSTS ALWAYS SHOW UP;
} else {
 
if (is_array($expirationdate)) {
	$expirestringarray = implode($expirationdate);
	}
$expirestring = str_replace("/","",$expirestringarray);
} //else
 if ( $expirestring > $currentdate ) { ?>
 
***THEN PUT THE FOLLOWING LINE AT THE VERY END OF THE LOOP***
 
<?php } //end if for expiration; ?>
 

Secure your wp-includes folder

 
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
<Files ~ ".(css|jpe?g|png|gif|js|swf)$">
Allow from all
 

Wordpress Static HTML Template

 
<?php
 
unset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
 
//Include current WordPress Theme Header etc.
// Change the path if wordpress isn't in the webserver root directory
 
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-blog-header.php');
 
//Check if we're wrapping the WP Theme
//Get Theme settings.
$themes = get_themes();
$current_theme = get_current_theme();
$current_template_dir = $themes[$current_theme]['Template Dir'];
$current_stylesheet_dir = $themes[$current_theme]['Stylesheet Dir'];
 
//Include the WP Header
get_header();
 
/* Your static HTML goes after here */  ?>
 
<?php
 
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
 
?>
 

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Posted on 13. 07. 2008
Filed as Hacks, Wordpress
By Dejan Cancarevic