Slightly Remarkable

You see, under normal circumstances you would need the space to be appended automatically, saving you the trouble of adding this in your theme, each time you call a category listing function. However, there are cases (such as mine) where a space is unnecessary and, if you’re as nit-picky as I am, an eye-sore. There’s a way to fix it, though, so let’s get to it.

The function I use to list my categories is called the_category(). I use it in such a way that quotes (and commas) are wrapped around each category’s name. When there’s only one category, this isn’t a problem, but with multiple categories an extra, unneeded space is inserted. Here’s what my code looks like:


&#8220;<?php the_category('&#8221;, &#8220;') ?>&#8221;


As you can see, there are no extra spaces in my code, so the problem is coming from Wordpress itself. The file is located in your wp-includes/template_categories.php file. On line 78, you should find if (0 < $i) $thelist .= $separator . ' ';. Yep, that right there is the problem. Snip it out (so it looks like if (0 < $i) $thelist .= $separator;), and you're all set.

Hopefully this'll be useful for someone. It took me awhile to decide to do it, since I figured it'd be a hassle to get into the code, but it wasn't really that difficult to locate and destroy fix the problem.