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Many bloggers are using Feedburner “chicklet” to display their subscribers count. If you want to be able to display the count for an average 7 days, here is a piece of code you’re going to love.

I recently shown you jow you can create a post or a comment programatically, which is very usefull when creating advanced WOrdPress themes or plugins. Today, let’s have a look at another killer snippet: Add categories or tags to a posts, programatically.

Want to display human readable dates on your blog, such as “Posted 6 days ago?” There’s a lot of available functions to do so, but only a few people know that WordPress have its own built-in function to do that.

Added in version 2.7, the Dashboard Widget API allow you to ad widgets to your WordPress admin dashboard. In this recipe, I’ll show you how you can easily remove them programatically.

Ever wanted to be able to automatically create a custom field with a value when a post (or page) is created? Then this snippet is for you.

Introduced in WordPress 2.9, get_the_post_thumbnail() allow you to display a thumbnail in your posts. But what about displaying post thumbnails in RSS feeds? Just read this recipe to know how to do.

By default, when the blog admin left a comment on his blog, WordPress use the name in the comment css class. This is useful for styling, but it will also let people know about your admin login name. If you want to hide this info, read this recipe.