WordPress Site Description

Someone asked me how I got the asterisks in my site description to be a link. It was actually really frustrating for about an hour. And then I remembered my filters.

This site is using Hybrid Core, so there are some extra hooks:

add_filter('option_blogdescription', 'halfelf_site_description');

function halfelf_site_description($desc) {
        $desc .= '<a href="https://halfelf.org/#bitch" title="Brave, Intelligent, Tenacious, Creative and Honest">*</a>';
        return $desc;
}

If you’re doing it on a non-Hybrid theme, you have to filter bloginfo

add_filter( 'bloginfo', 'halfelf_bloginfo', 10, 2 );
function halfelf_bloginfo( $text, $show ) {
    if( 'description' == $show ) {
        $text .= '<a href="https://halfelf.org/#bitch" title="Brave, Intelligent, Tenacious, Creative and Honest">*</a>';
    }
    return $text;
}

Pretty simple.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

I’m Mika (aka Ipstenu) and I’m complicated. I’ve been on the net since the days of dedicated terminals and Novation CAT modems and solved Missionaries and Cannibals (or Goats and Cabbages) before I was six, and blog about WordPress and technical/computer things at Half Elf on Tech.

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