A Modest Construct

This plugin has been superseded by the much-improved Semantic Classes plugin

I’ve written a small WordPress plugin that provides some new template tags that return a post’s tags, categories, author, and date; useful for CSS trickery.

You can view its page here.

This initial release provides the following items:

<?php generate_tag_class(); ?>

This function returns a space-delineated list of the post’s tags, prefixed with ‘tag-’

e.g. tag-politics tag-election-2008

<?php generate_category_class(); ?>

This function returns a space-delinated list of the post’s categories, prefixed with ‘category-’

e.g. category-personal category-random-thoughts

<?php generate_author_class(); ?>

This function returns the author name of a post, prefixed with ‘author-’

e.g. author-Heliologue

<?php generate_date_class(); ?>

This function returns a space-delineated list of the post’s date, prefixed with ‘y’ (year), ‘m’ (month), and ‘d’ (day).

e.g. y2008 m03 d11