Wordpress Theme Tags

The first step in designing your own WordPress themes is to understand the theme tags. The tags are made up of very simple PHP commands. Today I will show you how to use the first command, or tag called ‘bloginfo’ and show you all of it’s features.

This is how it looks with no value:

<?php bloginfo(”); ?>

So let me show you what you can do with this tag:

Show your blogs title:

<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>

Of course you might want your guest to know your blogs description/tagline:

<?php bloginfo(’description’); ?>

Your blogs url would be:

<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>

RSS Feed Address:

Atom feed:

<?php bloginfo(’atom_url’); ?>

RSS2

<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>

RSS 0.92

<?php bloginfo(’rss_url’); ?>

RDF/RSS 1.0

<?php bloginfo(’rdf_url’); ?>

Comments RSS

<?php bloginfo(’comments_rss2_url’); ?>

Your blogs pingback url

<?php bloginfo(’pingback_url’); ?>

Admins email Address:

<?php bloginfo(’admin_email’); ?>

Want to show the what version of WordPress your running

<?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>

Your blogs character encoding

<?php bloginfo(’charset’); ?>

The url for your WordPress Insallation

<?php bloginfo(’wpurl’); ?>

The directory of you template:

<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>

Not to be confused with your themes url:

<?php bloginfo(’template_url’); ?>

The url where your theme style is located.

<?php bloginfo(’stylesheet_url’); ?>

That’s it for now…