Most WordPress themes such as those released by WooThemes come with ready to use widget areas only in sidebar and footer. They are missing out the most important areas of a blog for readership attention and actionable conversions. They are the areas immediately before single post content and immediately after it. For example, a paragraph …
How to Create WordPress Widget Areas (Before and After Single Post) Read More »
WordPress amazes by making things possible in the simplest and most intuitive way. Child themes are the intended and correct way for customizing a third-party theme and you should always create a child theme to do the customizations so that the original theme stays intact thus ready for upgrade. And this is how you can …
One of my friends has created a very useful piece of software to do PDF to Word conversions. I find his product a breeze to use so I’m recommending it to my fellow readers. Hopefully it would be of some use to you guys. Differences between PDF and Word PDF (.pdf) and MS Word (.docx, …
While CSS3 can target the first letter of text inside an element, it’s still not universally supported across major browsers AND it doesn’t work well for elements that have child elements inside. The bullet proof way to target the first letter of a WordPress post would be to capture the content of the post in …
PHP preg_match() First Letter of a WordPress Post for Drop Cap Styling Read More »
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As WordPress becomes the de facto standard of web publishing, the need for quality WordPress themes have soared. There are lots of themes vendors across the web but I finally made up my mind to go with WooThemes and signed up a $125 membership with them a few months back. I never looked back. Here …
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KnownHost Coupon Code (75% and 10% Off) and My New Office Read More »
Menus are created and edited from in the WordPress backend and then called in frontend theme to be displayed by the wp_nav_menu() function. On some occasions, we may want to programmatically add one or two menu items to a menu because those menu items change frequently and it would be a chore to have to …
WordPress: Programmatically Add Items to a Menu (Dynamically) Read More »
The default image header and link on the login / register page of WordPress is a WordPress one, apparently, but when you are enabling registration / login to general users, you would want to use your own logo and website URL as the header rather than the default - so people don’t get confused and …
Customize WordPress Login Header and Link, Upgrade-proof without Plugin Read More »
Firefox has come with a tremendously useful feature that is the spell checking. However the problem is, by default, it only checks the spelling of text in <textarea></textarea> the block text input. How to make it also check the spelling of <input type=”text” /> so that we can be worry-free of misspelled words in single-line …
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When I ssh into my Debian Squeeze server and start up tail -f to watch a log file or anything else which uses ctrl-c to exit/stop, ctrl-c does not work. It prints the ^C character on screen and just keeps right on going. Is there a setting somewhere that can be tweaked or maybe a …
Sometimes the text files are very large and you don’t want to load it in memory before searching through it because it’s inefficient. You just want to get the last few bytes of the file because the latest additions / updates are there. This would help you: $fp = fopen(‘somefile.txt’, ‘r’); fseek($fp, -50, SEEK_END); // …
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Apache is a marvelous web server that offers .htpasswd and .htgroup for controlling restricted access to your website. By help of .htaccess, they work as a member login & user management system that is so simple and easy to deploy. You can even define user groups / roles with it. Basically, .htpasswd defines pairs of …
PHP Class for Handling .htpasswd and .htgroup (Member Login & User Management) Read More »
I have previously reviewed Moredays, the cool productivity tool that is also fun, right after its Beta launch in October last year. Since then, the digital organizer and scrapbook in one has continued improving, adding in for example the ability to sync with Google Apps, that now makes it pleasure to use. They’ve stayed true …
Moredays: Beautiful Productivity Tool To Release iOS Apps Soon Read More »
Jake (fastdivision.com) was kind enough to offer me a coupon code so that my readers can enjoy the Avalanche Magento theme at 15% discount. In case you haven’t read my review of the Avalanche theme, it is the current sensation going on in the Magento-sphere. In the shortest words, I think it’s the best Magento …
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There are raw strings that contain extraly unwanted whitespaces (tabs, spaces, new lines) that you want to get rid of so as to form a normalized string that has only a single spaces between words and sentences. For instance, you may want to transform this string: Morning is here, sunshine is here. Morning is here. …
PHP: Strip or Trim Extra Whitespaces Inside a String Read More »
People close to me would know that I play piano for fun – not an advanced player but the best I can do is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (only the 1st movement, -_-). I think everyone could learn one or two musical instruments and amuse themselves. Music is such a great endowment to us. It dispels the …
It is common to import CSV files into MySQL database. You can do this with phpMyAdmin with small CSV files but with large ones, you would probably encounter the memory error and had to switch to MySQL command line “LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE” to do the job. It looks like something like this: LOAD DATA …
MySQL: LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE only imports 1 or 2 rows? Read More »
Let’s be honest here. One of the most dreaded dreams for any working professionals perhaps is generating timely and professional invoices. Important as they are for ensuring timely payments, it is a pain to sacrifice time and make an effort to track down all the details. If you are having a tough time preparing invoices …
Invoicera Review — Online Invoice Software & Client Billing Software Read More »
