Here are three examples of how to count words in WordPress post content. You can use this to count the words in one post (or page, or any custom post type). Or, you can use this to display the word count on the current page (or post, or any custom post type). Or, you can … Read more →
This is a quick example of a WordPress loop that searches through all posts, of multiple post types including custom post types, to find if a certain shortcode is used within the content, and how many times that shortcode is used. This is for the random case in which a shortcode may be used multiple … Read more →
This code will get the related posts of the current custom-post-type single post being viewed. This will get posts only of the same custom post type and the same category of the current single post. Obviously, this only works for your custom post type if you gave it support for ‘category’ when you registered it. … Read more →
This code will get the related posts of the current custom-post-type single post being viewed. This will get posts only of the same custom post type and the same custom taxonomy term of the current single post. Use this code on single.php, or on single-custom_post_type.php. Use it to show a custom loop of related items … Read more →
Show a loop of related articles on the sidebar of single.php (or any single post template sidebar), but exclude the current single post from the related loop. This code goes in the sidebar of a single template file of a WordPress theme. Related articles, for this code, are posts within the same category of the … Read more →