If you use Facebook’s generator here, you’ll get some content very similar to mine:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcordobo.com%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:60px"></iframe>

Note: I highlighted the parts I replace in the next step

This would be fine, if you had only one page on your website, as the plugin only shows the url you have entered in the generator – no dynamic pages. So here’s how you can add some dynamic flavour to your new button:

Replace the following code

[…]like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcordobo.com%2F

with

[…]like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>

insert it into your theme’s single.php and upload it to your server.

The final code, ready for copy & paste

This is the final code you can use in your own WordPress installation without further modifications (except the width and height). Insert it into your single.php and upload the modified file to your server.

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:60px"></iframe>

Note: I highlighted the parts I replaced

In case you use some caching plugin, clear the cache and see the magic as it happens.

If you like it, click on “like” ;-)

It took me a while to get back to work on Green Park after a little break and some vacations. So, this is only a small update to the translations for Green Park 2 Beta 5 but Beta 6 is on the way. Thanks to the following users, the theme now features native support for 12+1 language.

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. English (default) by me
3. French by Julien
4. German by Andreas Jacob
5. Icelandic by Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
6. Italian by Saverio Tonno
7. Norwegian Bokmål by Bjørn-Arild Eriksen-Woll
8. Polish by Tosiek
9. Romanian by Cristian Boba
10. Russian (formal) by Dr. Dmitry Tarasov
11. Russian (informal) by Perllover
12. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
13. Swedish by Jon Klarström

Many thanks for your contributions!

The new release (still Beta 5) is now available for download from the Green Park 2 page and should be available within a few hours from WordPress.org.

The really simple solution we came up is resource-friendly while he can keep all of his links. Most probably the best thing of this simple usage of WordPress functions: it’s entirely based on WordPress’ template tags and there is no need for another plugin.

WordPress Template Tags

Our weapon of choice is the wp_list_bookmarks template tag. It comes in handy if you use a new WordPress theme as starting point, which already uses this tag. If not, now it’s the time to get rid of deprecated tags like get_links() or get_links_list().

To start, open the file where your link-list is located, most probably sidebar.php or footer.php. The default usage for wp_list_bookmarks is:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>

Useful parameters: limit and orderby

Remember, we need to limit the output because of the new design while still giving link-love to all of our blog-friends. To achieve this goal, we applied two parameters to the tag:

limit and orderby.

The Function

These two parameters combined provide us with the limited set of randomized links we need. Seven randomized links fit into the available space, so here is the final template tag with two parameters applied:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks('limit=7&orderby=rand'); ?>

Jupp, it’s remarkably simple, but it works exactly as intended.

Late last month I released Green Park 2 Beta 4 with a small support for i18n — thanks to a lot of people with a lot more eyes than I have, I could fix around 15 smaller issues, two bugs and I got a lot of feedback regarding the i18n of the theme. Thanks to the community, we have support for the following languages:

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. English (default) by me
3. French by Julien
4. German by Andreas Jacob
5. Polish by Tosiek
6. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
7. Swedish by Jon Klarström

I’d love to see your language here as well ;-) Please check this posting: Green Park 2 – for translators

Green Park 2 Beta 5 is available for download

So it’s time to release Green Park 2 Beta 5 into the wild. The download is now available:

Download Green Park 2 Beta 5 | Demo (Changelog)

Like it? Buy me a cup of coffee ;)

As you might know, coders love coffee — and I need a lot. If you like my free themes, feel free to send me 1$ for a coffee.

Cordobo Green Park 2 (GP2) has reached the Beta status after 8 Alpha revisions. The download is available at my WordPress Themes Page.

Apart from a new header graphic and more appealing forms and buttons, GP2 comes with a lot of code and CSS improvements, to render the website even faster along with typography and SEO optimizations. The Beta needs ~3KB less code on each created page compared to the latest alpha. The new settings page located at the WordPress Admin section, to configure Feedburner, Adsense and Analytics, has been cleaned up although.

Download Green Park 2 Beta 4 | Demo (Changelog)

Like it? Buy me a cup of coffee ;)

As you might know, coders love coffee — and I need a lot. If you like my free themes, feel free to send me 1$ for a coffee.

The theme is released as “ALPHA”, to let you know I’m still adding features and improvements. So please feel free and report any bug you may encounter in the comments section below.

Featurelist

• Fully compatible with WordPress 2.7.1 and up
• Support for WordPress widgets
• Light-weight: optimized CSS for really fast cross-browser rendering, less graphics (Grade “A” in YSlow)
• Fast: the minimum set of SQL queries
• Findability: SEO optimizations for humans and search-engines
• Accessible: clean and structured code for screen-readers and “jump links” for navigation
• A very clean typography for advanced readability
• Use of css sprites for images for even less http-requests
• Built-In Simple-Twitter Plugin support
• Built-In Sitepagination-Plugin support

Download Green Park 2 Alpha 7