Formating the display of a post’s date, outside the Loop
I’m using something like this: date(‘F, Y’, strtotime($data[0]->post_date));
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Comment formatting with comment_content
applying the ‘the_content’ filter could work: <?php echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, $comment->comment_content); ?>
Use a language specific thousand separator
Use number_format_i18n( $number ). It will format the number with respect to the current blog’s language setting. It is a wrapper for PHP’s native number_format().
Line breaks not showing up properly
Presentation layer is best handled by CSS. In this case that would probably be margin-bottom rule for your heading. Markup with <br /> is usually unreliable. WP mostly relies on <p></p> tags for paragraphs and not line breaks.
Add dollar sign and commas to a number?
To format number, you can use the function number_format_i18n (it’s not documented now, but you can see its source here). Its work is format the number based on the language. You might want to look at number_format (PHP built_in function, and is used by number_format_i18n) to have more control to decimal point and thousand separator. … Read more
How to prevent automatic conversion of dashes to –
In your functions.php: remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’ ); And the same for the_excerpt or the_title (if required).
Content over 10,000 characters won’t display with the_content()
I ran into this problem a year or so ago, and found a fix here. Open PHP.INI in a text editor of your choice (normally you can find php.ini in your php install dir) Change the recursion limit to 200x normal, that is, set: pcre.recursion_limit=20000000 Change the backtrack limit to 100x normal, that is, set: … Read more
How to change text size of Gutenberg editor
If you came here, like me, looking for how to adjust the available text size options within Gutenberg, you can add this code to your theme’s functions.php file (you can add as many options as you like): add_theme_support( ‘editor-font-sizes’, array( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Normal’, ‘your-theme-text-domain’ ), ‘shortName’ => __( ‘N’, ‘your-theme-text-domain’ ), ‘size’ => … Read more
Change CSS/formatting on specific page, but not pages in general?
After creating the specific CSS you need to format the page how you like, you could: Create a custom page template with the CSS and assign the template this page. Create a page-{slug}.php file with the CSS, where {slug} is the page slug for this page (most likely the filename should be page-voronoi-temperature-map.php). Create a … Read more
can I add a custom format to the format option in the text panel?
The “classic” TinyMCE editor has two dropdowns: formatselect for paragraph styles and styleselect for character styles – which can also contain paragraph styles, to make it more confusing. The configuration in WordPress by default only shows the format dropdown. If you apply a custom stylesheet to the editor, TinyMCE can use it to pick up … Read more