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WordPress goes to great lengths in order to provide us with a localized environment, displaying dates and times in the correct format and even language. However, since it uses its own timezone setting, some native PHP functions are no longer applicable (or don’t return correct results), such as the date() function which returns a date/time string depending on the timezone configuration of PHP itself, ignoring the WordPress setting.

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Star ratings are a quick and simple way to get feedback from your users, that’s why it has become so popular all around the web. Today we’ll extend WordPress comments by adding our own star rating system.

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One of the greatest things about WordPress, is undoubtedly its customizability. Not only it provides various APIs to make our lives easier by abstracting and hiding complex code and processes, but also allows us to intervene and modify its default behavior. It also gives us the ability to provide the same level of customizability in our own code. If you’re regularly reading tutorials about WordPress or you’re tinkering with PHP, chances are you’ve come across and interacted with hooks.

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So, you like how Facebook, Twitter, and other sites don’t break their content into pages. You’ve researched the technique and found out it’s elegantly named “infinite scroll”. Hopefully you did some reading and weighted the pros and cons for your own use-case. Finally, you decided that you want it on your WordPress blog. Of course, there are infinite solutions out there that will get your job done, but probably the easiest one is the one that Jetpack bundles. There are good chances that you theme already supports Jetpack’s Infinite Scroll, but you wouldn’t be reading this if it did, would you?

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