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WordPress blog goes blank after editing and updating the theme files

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Really weird but not unexpected at all. After trying to edit and update a theme file functions.php to override a native function of WordPress, get_search_form, inserting these lines at the end of functions.php of my theme: function get_search_form() { ?>test<?php } To see if the native get_search_form() function can be overriden. Turns out it can’t. …

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Work Around Zend Studio 5.5 PHP Class / Object / Method Auto-complete Problem

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Don’t know if it’s a glitch of Zend itself but I frequently encounter this problem on Windows with Zend Studio when writing PHP. Function / object methods names auto-completion saves a lot of time by suggesting candidates and a quick flyover tooltip with the synopsis, however sometimes it doesn’t work with newly created functions and …

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Best Damn Premium WordPress Theme for Professional Blogs: THESIS

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Imagine the best WordPress theme you have ever used and then triple the pleasure you enjoyed with it – that’s what Thesis can give you. Whatever your niche is, if you are ever after a powerful, beautiful WordPress premium theme well balanced between functionality and customizability with best support from the author, this is the …

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How to Transfer / Move WordPress Blog from One Domain to Another

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Basically, the root URL of your blog which is your domain or subdomain is changing here. Though this doesn’t seem like a sane decision considering the huge SEO impact that might fall upon your site but with HTTP 301 permanent redirection, this can still make sense in some situations. Assume you won’t change the details …

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MySQL: String Function to Replace Substring and Change Part of the Field Value

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A typical case of replacing a part of the string to another substring in a database table is switching between site domains or URLs, such as when you want to transfer your WordPress blog from one domain to another. You have to change all values containing the original site URL to the new one in …

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Modify Index Homepage Title of MyBB Forum

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Upon a fresh installation of MyBB forum software, the default homepage title is the name of the forum. Sometimes you want to add more keywords in it or change it in some way for the sake of SEO but don’t want to tamper with the forum site title itself because that’d make it look long …

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Google AdWords mistake (a bug?)

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Naturally, you’d never expect an AdSense ad of a site to appear on itself. But this I just encountered, indicates an inherent *bug* of AdWords. Or is it? But I’ll never understand otherwise. What’s the point? Maybe there’s an option for the AdWords advertiser to opt out of his advertisement listing being published on his …

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WordPress: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable when Posting New Posts or Modifying Existing Posts

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It’s weird that I encountered this problem that when you post new posts in WordPress, there’s a possibility that it may run into a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error without publishing the article at all. I did some split tests and in this post, the string ‘fopen‘ which is a php function seems to be …

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phpBB: Disabling User Registrations / Signup

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There might be a possibility that you want the current users to keep engaging with each other in the phpBB forum and to disable further user registrations. To disable user registration, simply log in the phpBB administration panel and go to: ACP => General => User registration settings => Account activation => disable While it …

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phpBB Spam Control — phpBB Anti-Spam Options for Fresh Forum Installations

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phpBB is pretty much the best php forum software out there that is free, and comes the first choice of many webmasters. However, after a few weeks of first installation, many complain that spam bots start to overwhelm their forums, flooding with automated spam registrations and spam posts. Unfortunately, that is generally because: phpBB disables …

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PHP: Generating Summary Abstract from A Text or HTML String, Limiting by Words or Sentences

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On index or transitional pages, such as homepage or category pages of WordPress, you don’t want to show the full texts of your deep content pages yet but just a content snippet of the first few sentences or words as a summary with a read more link to the actual article. This is generally good …

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Update your theme to WordPress 2.7 with Comments Threading and Paging

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Well dismiss me if I’m a little too late for this but just now I encountered this client who needs to update a wordpress theme, the comments section or comments.php to be precise, to accommodate some of the new features introduced in WordPress 2.7, comments threading and comments paging. The easy way — for new …

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Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type Compared

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Updated: Comparison table updated by the announcement of MT4. Okay, before it all begins, I’d like to do a small playful research that would give us some preliminary knowledge. According to Google, up to the time this comparison post is being compiled, we have, “powered by Blogger” – 30,800,000 results! “powered by WordPress” – 71,800,000 …

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Check broken links on your site with this free tool

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Xenu‘s the program(for windows) I’m talking about. I’ve tried a bunch of link checkers including those pretentiously online ones. This is the one that’s really working to solve your problem. And free! Download it from here, or you might also want to check its page for FAQs and other instructions. Install and run it. “File” …

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