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Technology, WordPress

Creating And Managing Tables Inside WordPress Posts

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WordPress Visual Editor don’t provides you the option to create table inside your post content. Hence to create a table in WordPress you need to know HTML. Reading this tutorial you can create tables in your WordPress posts even if your are not good in HTML.

  1. Go to plugins menu.
  2. Install Easy Table Plugin and Actvate it.
  3. Move to Dashboard >> Settings >> Easy Table.

Here you will get various table options and previews. Now to start up with your first table use the following given format in your WP post:

[table] Domain,Company,Rank
Google.com,Google,1,
Facebook.com,Facebook Inc,2
[/table]

This is an example. You can create as many formats you want and each format should be enclosed in [table] and [/table] shortcode. Given format creates three columns: Domain, Company and Rank with three rows:

Domain

Company

Rank

Google.com

Google

1

Facebook.com

Facebook Inc.

1

 

 

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How To Add Automatically Resized Images In Your Blog Posts

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If you post large number of images in your blog and resize each image  to similar frame after you upload it. Then you may add an automatic task that will resize you images automatically:

  1. Copy the script from here.
  2. Create a new folder ‘script’ in your site root from cPanel.
  3. Upload this script in script folder and name it timthumb.php
  4. Use the following syntax for adding automatically resized image in your blog post:

<img src=”/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/images/whatever.jpg&amp;h=150&amp;w=150&amp;zc=1″ alt=”” />

Technology, Web Services, WordPress

WordPres Spam Words And Moderation

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Here are words widely used in spam comments. Adding them to your moderation list protects your site from spam trackback and comments. Just copy-paste this list in your wp-admin/options-discussions.php  (if using WordPress)

What is Moderation ? WordPress Comment moderation allows you to prevent comments to appear on your webiste before your approval. It can be useful for addressing Spam Comment.

How Moderation Works ? A new comment goes through many WordPress tests before appearing below your post. If comment fails one of the test conducted by WordPress then it goes to spam list, where you can approve or trash that particular comment. That’s how comment moderation works.

Akismet is a better option available for WordPress users for blocking Spam Comments.

Following is spam word list (released by WordPress) to add in your WordPress wp-admin/options-discussions.php

-online
4u
adipex
advicer
baccarrat
blackjack
bllogspot
booker
byob
car-rental-e-site
car-rentals-e-site
carisoprodol
casino
casinos
chatroom
cialis
coolcoolhu
coolhu
credit-card-debt
credit-report-4u
cwas
cyclen
cyclobenzaprine
dating-e-site
day-trading
debt-consolidation
debt-consolidation-consultant
discreetordering
duty-free
dutyfree
equityloans
fioricet
flowers-leading-site
freenet-shopping
freenet
gambling-
hair-loss
health-insurancedeals-4u
homeequityloans
homefinance
holdem
holdempoker
holdemsoftware
holdemtexasturbowilson
hotel-dealse-site
hotele-site
hotelse-site
incest
insurance-quotesdeals-4u
insurancedeals-4u
jrcreations
levitra
macinstruct
mortgage-4-u
mortgagequotes
online-gambling
onlinegambling-4u
ottawavalleyag
ownsthis
palm-texas-holdem-game
paxil
penis
pharmacy
phentermine
poker-chip
poze
pussy
rental-car-e-site
ringtones
roulette
shemale
shoes
slot-machine
texas-holdem
thorcarlson
top-site
top-e-site
tramadol
trim-spa
ultram
valeofglamorganconservatives
viagra
vioxx
xanax
zolus

PHP, Technology, WordPress

Move Across WordPress Draft, Pending And Publish Post Statuses

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Don’t use register_post_status before init. Register Post Status is a function used to create and modify post status based on given parameters. register_post_status() function is located in wp-includes/post.php It accepts following two parameters:

  • $post_status means a string for the post status name
  • $args means an array of arguments

<?php register_post_status( $post_status, $args ); ?>

Example:
(Following example registers “Unread” post status:

function my_custom_post_status(){
register_post_status( ‘unread’, array(
‘label’ => _x( ‘Unread’, ‘post’ ),
‘public’ => true,
‘exclude_from_search’ => false,
‘show_in_admin_all_list’ => true,
‘show_in_admin_status_list’ => true,
‘label_count’ => _n_noop( ‘Unread <span class=”count”>(%s)</span>’, ‘Unread <span class=”count”>(%s)</span>’ ),
) );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘my_custom_post_status’ );

Where:

  • label is a descriptive name for the post status marked for translation.
  • public – Set true to show posts of this status in the front end. Defaults to false.
  • exclude_from_search – Set true to exclude posts with this post status in search results. Defaults to false.
  • show_in_admin_all_list – Defines whether to include posts in the edit listing for their post type.
  • show_in_admin_status_list – Shows in the list of statuses with post counts. Example: Published (12)
  • label_count – The text to display on admin screen or you won’t see status count.
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Show Related Posts In Your WordPress Blog Without Using Any Plugin

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Copy and Paste the given code within the loop. It may engage your blog visitors to stay for a longer time:

<?php
//for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on current post
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
echo ‘Related Posts’;
$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
$args=array(
‘tag__in’ => array($first_tag),
‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),
‘showposts’=>5,
‘caller_get_posts’=>1
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<p><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
<?php
endwhile;
}
}
?>

This code displays posts related to current post. It is based on tags. You may change the number of posts it displays, just change ‘showposts’=>5 with your number.

Technology, Web Services, WordPress

Display Popular Posts In Your WordPress Blog’s Sidebar Without Using Any Plugin

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You can highlight most popular content of your WordPress site in your sidebar. Copy-Paste the following code in your theme’s sidebar.php file:

<h2>Popular Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title
FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5″);
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>” title=”<?php echo
$title ?>”>
<?php echo $title ?></a> {<?php echo $commentcount ?>}</li>
<?php } } ?>
</ul>

It displays most popular posts on your site’s sidebar.

For changing the number of posts to display in your sidebar:

Look-up for this line in the above code block: FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5″); and Replace 5 with the number of posts you like to display.

Easiest Way for Displaying both Popular and Unpopular Posts in your Sidebar:

Now easiest way to do this (display popular posts) and many other similar things like displaying both popular and unpopular posts, knowing the number of post hits is to use Most and Least Read Posts Widget Plugin. 

Download from the link, activate it and start using it by placing its widgets in your sidebar. It gives you two different widgets one shows most read posts and the other shows least read posts and also it counts your post hits both on sidebar and in your dashboard All Posts list.

Social Media

Add ‘Pin It’ Button To Images In Your WordPress Blog

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Without using Plugin: Add this code to your theme’s footer.php file before the </body> tag. Get Pinterest’s javascript at Goodies.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js”></script>

Add this code to your theme’s single.php file wherever you want Pin It button to be visible:

<a href=”http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&media=<?php echo catch_that_image() ?>&description=<?php the_title(); ?>” class=”pin-it-button” count-layout=”horizontal”><img border=”0″ src=”//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png” title=”Pin It” /></a>

Add this code in your theme’s functions.php file:

function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all(‘/<img.+src=[‘”]([^'”]+)[‘”].*>/i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Or You may use a WordPress plugin and that would be more easy for you. Use this plugin Pinterest Pin It Button For Images. Either search it on WP Plugin search or click the link and upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, Activate from ‘Plugins’ menu and Enjoy.

PHP, Technology, Web Services, WordPress

Hide Post Images Without Removing Thumbnail Image In Category Archive

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Given code hides post images but keeps thumbnail image in Category archive and homepage. Add following code block in your theme’s function.php:

function wpi_image_content_filter($content){

if (is_home() || is_front_page() || is_category()){
$content = preg_replace(“/<img[^>]+>/i”, “”, $content);
}

return $content;
}
add_filter(‘the_content’,’wpi_image_content_filter’,11);

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WordPress’s VIP Team Launched New Plugin That Controls Bulk User Management On Multisite Network

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VIP team launched new plugin which is capable enough to control and manage all users across many sites in a multisite network install. It can check all network users and their roles on different sites sites and helps you to edit users, user roles on different sites at a time without visiting their dashboard from All Sites Super Admin Menu.

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Page Links To WP plugin allows you to…

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Page Links To WP plugin allows you to make a WordPress page or post point to a URL of your choice instead of traditional URL of WP page or post. Also useful when you move your blog or create a new post instead of updating the old one. It can also redirects people who go to the old URL to the new one you’ve chosen.

Technology, WordPress

Your WordPress P2 Blog Can Now Be A Full-Blown Issue Tracker

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You can now have your WordPress blog as a full-blown issue tracker with Recently updated Resolved/Unresolved Posts Plugin. Test it live here in this post. Check Resolved/Unresolved button at the top right corner of this post.

  • Green posts are resolved issues.
  • Red posts are unresolved issues.

You also get a sidebar widget for quick overview of resolved and unresolved posts.

Source: http://kovshenin.com/2012/wordpress-as-an-issue-tracker/

Android/Linux, GNU/Linux, Technology, Web Services, WordPress

10 Android Apps That Bloggers Should Have

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1. WordPress

WordPress App for Android is available at Google Play Store. Using this App bloggers can maintain their blogs from their Android Device. This App is useful for both self-hosted blogs and blogs hosted on wordpress.com

Download WordPress App

2. Tumblr

If you maintain a Tumblr micro-blog then you should try this App. Using this app you can post content, read and write messages, schedule post activity, manage multiple Tumblr blogs and view contacts of Tumblr blogs in your address book etc.

Download Tumblr App

3. Google Drive

It helps you to store all kinds of documents, audio, video, images, pdf etc in cloud and also sync all documents across multiple devices connected to your Google account.

Download Google Drive App for Android

4. Blogger

Try this App if you blog on Blogger. Functionality of this app is still very limited as compared to the WordPress App.

Download Blogger App

5. Writer

Writer is a simple text processor that provides you distraction-free writing environment on your smartphone which is very useful while writing long posts.

Download Writer App

6. Disqus

Disqus commenting system for WordPress is getting very popular these days because its integrated community features brings people back and keep them engaged. Using this App you can access all commenting features of you blog from your smartphone.

 Download Disqus App

7. Tape A Talk

Tape A Talk is a voice recorder App. Bloggers use this App for recording interviews etc. This App can upload audio-recording to many online services and blogs.

Download Tape-A-Talk App

8. GAnalytics

GAnalytics is mobile version of Google’s famous service ‘Google Analytics’. This App gives a good account of your blog traffic, usage statistics and bounce rates etc.

Download GAnalytics App

9. Flipboard

Flipboard allows you to open Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams. Using this App you can browse your blog’s Facebook Page, social news, comments etc

Download Flipboard App

10. Photo Editor

Using this App you can crop, edit, resize, add effects, texts and drawings to your photos before posting them to your blog.

Download Photo Editor

PHP, Technology, Web Services

Create Your Own Proxy Website Using WordPress

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Governments all over the world are trying to censor Internet. They are seeking ways to limit free speech by blocking content on the web. Here using RePress you will learn to get those websites online again for you and the world without any hassle. Your website will become a proxy for the blocked website, rerouting any traffic from a user, through your website to the blocked site.

Although there are already many proxy websites providing access to blocked content but you may have your own proxy website if you don’t want to submit your details to other website.

For example: When you login to a blocked website from a proxy; your details are submitted there so if you respect your privacy then you may own your own proxy.

Follow these steps:

  1. Visit your WordPress Dashboard.
  2. Move to Plugins >> Add New
  3. Search RePress >> Click Install >> Click Activate.
  4. Now visit Settings >> RePress
  5. Add the Domain names you would like to access.
  6. Your Proxy Server is ready now.
Technology, Web Services, WordPress

Embed Flickr & Picasa Photostreams In Web Pages As A Flash Slideshow

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Use PictoBrowser for embedding your Flickr – Picasa Photos in your website.

What is a PictoBrowser?

PictoBrowser a free web application that displays Flickr and Picasa images on websites and blogs.

How to get a PictoBrowser?

  1. Visit here
  2. If this link doesn’t work then visit http://pictobrowser.com/
  3. Click PictoBuilder at the top left corner of the page.
  4. Enter your Flickr/Picasa username.
  5. Choose images.
  6. Set Tag or Groups.
  7. It outputs some HTML code
  8. Copy that HTML code and paste it in your website or blog.
  9. If you use WordPress then you may paste it inside your posts and pages.
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Adding JavaScript Inside Your WordPress Posts

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While writing any post change mode from Visual to HTML and paste your javascript there.

Excluding this there are many plugins available which allows you to add javascript in WordPress posts.

You may try this plugin also Custom fields shortcode. Although this plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years but it works good without  showing any error in my blog.

Useage:

Use [cf] shortcode in your post content to show the custom field value without editing any of your WordPress theme files.

For Example:  [cf] FieldName[/cf] returns value of ‘FieldName’ custom-filed.

Check similar plugins here.