shortcode

Make your WordPress gallery link to a custom image size

Posted on June 2, 2016, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

Using the WordPress gallery shortcode and linking the gallery items to its media source, WordPress will always create a link to the full size image. For a project I needed to change this behaviour since the full size images uploaded by editors will usually be too large to be dealt with the way we want to.

We will be using galleries linking to large size images and displaying them in a fancybox.

Content snippet in blog posts with a shortcode

Posted on November 30, 2015, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

You’re having the same content snippet on multiple WordPress blog posts and are fed up with making changes to that small piece on each single post? I’m showing you how to create a custom WordPress shortcode that pulls the content from a single post and injects it right into your blog posts.

The situation

I used an ad managing plugin for displaying the same content in multiple articles. Basically, those are a series of blog posts that had a table of contents.

Adding a link to a WordPress image caption

Posted on February 19, 2013, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

In many blog posts of mine, I am using images and sometimes I even publish posts whose only content is an image. I have been asked by other bloggers, how I add a link to another site within WordPress’ native image-caption. Especially using the WordPress.com network, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to use a link in an image caption. Though, the riddle’s solution is fairly easy, though.

Sometimes,