I am neither the first nor the last one that will be writing about placing twitter follower counter in webpage. Though there already exist many widgets anyone can easily use and customize; see here and here; But those widgets have limited options in terms of color, layout and moreover they have their info attched (somewhere) in widget which does not feels good. Here’s my attempt on how to get follower count in twitter using PHP.
Easy availability of thousands of Plugins and support are one of the reason behind success of WordPress. In case if you find trouble with then don’t panic because there are hundred thousands of developers for your support via forums, blog posts. But wait, there are thousands of plugins in WordPress Plugin directory; Do you need them all? Simple answer is NO. The selection of plugin depends on the requirement of the project. For e.g; I use WP125 plugin for ads et cetera.
I am making a list of plugins that I use frequently in my most of the projects and recommend buyers to use.
After two months long work, StudioPress finally come up with a bang with new Genesis Theme Framework. Along with it, they have released two child themes Executive and Mocha to add up design flavor and extensibility to core theme. Overall, it looks great addition to theme list. As per them, new framework is created keeping BuddyPress extensibility in mind. I won’t be surprised if they offer BuddyPress theme using this framework.
Theme Junkie released clean news premium WordPress theme. The theme named ‘Portal‘ includes features like auto thumbnail generation, featured content slider, built in advertising, theme option panel and more.
Price:
- Standard Package: $19.95
- All Theme Package: $49.95
I wasn’t surprised when one of my buyer asked me if there’s a way to hide features like tags, comments widgets. Its not uncommon in a simple CMS based projects where tags and comments widgets are seldom needed. Hence, I came up with a simple trick to hide those widgets.
Basically I used help of CSS ‘display:none’ to achieve it. I created a function ‘hide_wp_tags_from_admin’ and then I added this filter to to admin head using WordPress automatically adds <p> tag for each line breaks within a post or page. For some, this filter can be a headache for their particular project. 
I quickly googled and fixed it by adding following code in function.php
remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
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Sometime we need to put a live time clock in webpage. There are various codes and scripts which allows us to insert live time and date in the page . I was reading an article and found quite easier than the ones i have used in my projects. So i feel that i should share with others.
We need to follows some simple steps for this as mentioned below
Step 1:
Insert the following codes into the webpage where, we wish to appear live time clock.
<script language="javascript" src="liveclock.js"> /* Live Clock Script- By Mark Plachetta (astro@bigpond.net.au©) based on code from DynamicDrive.com For full source code, 100's more DHTML scripts, and Terms Of Use, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com */ </script>
Step 2:
Insert the following codes inside the body of the html page
<body onLoad="show_clock()"> </body>
Step 3:
Download liveclock.js (by right clicking, and selecting “Save As”), and upload to your webpage directory.
Click here to view the DEMO
Last week I wrote about how to disable WordPress RSS feed completely from end users. Sometimes there are cases where we want posts from certain categories not to publish in RSS feed; we just wish to unpublish post in feed.
There are 2 ways to disable categories in feeds.
1. If you’re a feedburner user
You’ll have to edit the original feed source in your feedburner account like below;
http://designgala.com/feed?cat=-7&cat=-18
Above URL would exclude posts from categories with ID 7 and 18
2. From standard RSS feed
In order to use this method, you need to add following code in function.php of your active theme.
/** * disable RSS feed */ function exclude_categories_in_feed($query) { if ($query->is_feed) { $query->set('cat','-7,-18'); return $query; } add_filter('pre_get_posts','exclude_categories_in_feed');
I hope this was short but cool wordpress hack to exclude categories from RSS feed.
RSS feed is one of the best feature of WordPress for sharing post. But there are cases where feeds either have little importantce or does not have any roles to play as in static websites, CMS. For all who do not need RSS feature in WordPress it can be disabled with a little effort.
Step 1:
Create a new function in function.php located in your active theme folder like below:
/** * disable RSS feed */ function wp_disable_feed() { wp_die( __('Sorry, no feeds available, return to <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">homepage</a>') ); } add_action('do_feed', 'wp_disable_feed', 1); add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'wp_disable_feed', 1); add_action('do_feed_rss', 'wp_disable_feed', 1); add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'wp_disable_feed', 1); add_action('do_feed_atom', 'wp_disable_feed', 1);
I told you. Its very easy to disable feeds.
