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Best WordPress Image Slider Plugin

Wammo — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:42:35 +0000

WordPress is all time greatest CMS the internet has ever experienced. The best part about WordPress is plugins. But most of WordPress plugins are not well coded. You will find plugin’s often import jquery or use their own version of jquery which is not good. Since WordPress has an inbuilt javascript library, it is best to use using WordPress inbuilt library for plugins.

So which one is the best WordPress image slider plugin?

My personal favorite is the recently released vSlider 4.0 : Download Here

vSlider 4.0 Demo

vSlider 4.0 is a WordPress image slider plugin where you can host unlimited image sliders. It provides pretty cool features such as :

Selecting images from posts or using custom images [With image linking].
9 Image transition effects [Rain, Swirl, Random, Curtain, Winding, Alternate Curtain,Alternate Winding,Diagonal]
Custom Navigation styles and image buttons
Border ,width radius and color
Custom Image button placement in both horizontal and vertical format
Slide layouts [ Top, Right, Bottom and Left]
Container Float and Margin
Image Caching
Auto Resizing of Images
Setting Image quality for Faster loading

With all these amazing features vSlider 4.0 is the best free image slider WordPress plugin available, with multi image slider support and a much improved back-end.
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What is WordPress Jetpack?

Ripul Kumar — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:15:49 +0000

Automattic the owners of WordPress the most popular CMS on web have launched WordPress Jetpack. The two popular versions of WordPress, WordPress.com – where you can host blog on the cloud resources of WordPress and the other WordPress.org which provides a stand alone installation to be hosted on various servers. The WordPress Theme and Plugin market is booming with wordpress itself hosting 1350+ themes and 1450+ plugins.

WordPress Jetpack is a Plugin which is a combination of must have plugins in the WordPress plugin directory.

WordPress Jetpack has:

1. WordPress.com Stats

2. Twitter Widget

3. WP.me Shortlinks

4. Gravatar Hovercards

5. Sharedaddy

6. After the Deadline

7. Shortcode Embeds

8. LaTeX

These plugins are clubbed together as WordPress Jetpack, so if you already have your plugins in place there is no need for installing WordPress Jetpack. However, since these plugins use the cloud facilities of WordPress, it might help in taking the extra load from your server and speed up your blog. I wonder what impact does Jetpack have on blog bandwidth consumption?

WordPress auto deactivating Sidebar widgets

Ripul Kumar — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:54:24 +0000

While creating this theme for Wackao, just when I thought I had finished my job, I encountered a strange problem the wordpress sidebar was not saving widgets. When I had to install the widgets and configured them, they would show up on the desired pages and posts but a simple refresh of admin panel would automatically deactivate these widgets.

I searched many forums but could not find any reasonable answer. Till I started hit and trial with my code and after repeated checks found that the bug resides in my naming and allocating Id’s to the sidebars in functions.php.

Solution: Try renaming the IDs of the sidebars and try not to use numbers and upper case alphabets.

Sometimes when you are coding you forget simple thumb rules which at a later stage become bugs and bring severe headaches and trouble.

WordPress Password Hacked ?

Ripul Kumar — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:53:01 +0000

You might have read a lot of articles on how to save your site from hackers, and now that your password has been hacked and email has been changed you need a remedy not a prevention. Before you look for a solution you must be sure that you are not using Google chrome for WordPress . If you are then try using some other browser and log in to the site, because google chrome is known to have some issues with wordpress….more information read here..

You should also make sure that your server is on, many times your hosting server and database servers are different and a possible case of you not being able to log into your site can be because your database server is not responding.

However is none of the above holds true you can try out manually resetting your password directly from the backend . For this you need to log in to your Cpanel and check the appropriate database in which your wordpress files are installed. Then you can continue reading my previous article.[link below]

For Immediate solution please read this article–>How to change your WordPress Password Manually

How to Reset your WordPress Password Manually?

Ripul Kumar — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:18:34 +0000

Why would you need to reset your WordPress password manually?

Well, that might seem a strange question to you but this happens when you register your WordPress admin account during the installation of Wordpress using a fake email id. Or you might have lost your email id’s password along with WordPress password. Well, the possibilities do exist. Let me tell you why I needed to reset my WordPress Admin password manually. When you setup WordPress on your laptop or mac by installing a server software such as Xampp or Wampp. When you install WordPress in the htdocs directory you are required to enter a valid email id, in this case no matter what email id you put it, WordPress engine cannot send a mail to your actual email id because you laptop is actually not a server.

You can also use this in case you lost your super admin password which I described in the previous post.

Anyways, for whatever reason you might require to reset your password manually it is actually a few seconds process, so you might not even considering going to your mail box and then resetting your password. The trick here is pretty simple

WordPress uses AES_ENCRYPT function to encrypt and save your passwords in the prefix_users (wp_users) table in the database in which WordPress is installed. The trick is simple just go to the above table in the database and check your user id and username and reset the password field.

say

reset the password field to this $P$BPC.t7e/Hh2ccH55jlbbDbIw.AS3yP0

this is actually AES encryption of ripul ,so whenever you reset your password field with above code you can simply type in the password as ripul and login to your wordpress . In case you are finding it difficult to do, leave a comment below.
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Be a WordPress Super Administrator !

Ripul Kumar — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:10:51 +0000

Wordpress is the most powerful and popular blogging engine today, but it certainly has some limitations. If you are running a blog which have multiple contributors,editors or authors, you would have definitely felt the need of having an administrator to your blog. Even if you would have given the person admin rights, you are always insecure of what if he/she changes your password, deletes your account, changes your theme, reset other people’s password. This insecurity however can be removed by tweaking the code.

This Post will show you how you can just sit and relax while other people manage your blog and no one can take the control of your blog from you ( unless you lose your password).

You have other plugin currently available like role player and role scoper but that requires continuous monitoring on each and every new user which registers to your blog and what rights you have to give or other admins can give them. With this method you would not require to monitor your blog. Other admins can give any authority to users can even make other admins to your site but the sole owner ship lies with you.

Let me just start by introducing:

What is a Super Admin ?

This is basically a concept taken out from Joomla, a super admin is a user who has more powers than other users including other administrator of the website. If you are the Super Admin you can hire people to administer your blog and you have total control of each and everyone of them.

How do you become the Super Administrator of your WordPress Blog?

You need to make few changes to theme and to the wp-admin folder in the WordPress installation. The changes in the Wp-admin are bound to be removed in the next WordPress update but since these are 1 or 2 line changes you would not find much trouble inserting these lines again. Why do you need to change wp-admin? this is only area which would be visible to you since you own the site and that will help you in getting the privilege you need.

Prerequisite: You should to be the admin of the site and have access to the server where your site is installed.

You just need to change 3 files to get the privilege of a Super Administrator of your WordPress blog:

1. Functions.php [..wp-content/themes/{yourtheme}/functions.php] : This will allow you to hide certain sections in your wordpress dashboard which are only visible to you. In this case I have given the privilege to the “admin” (marked in red) which is the name of the user change the name as per your requirement.

Add this code at the end of the file:

add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘hide_menus’);

function hide_menus() {

global $current_user;

get_currentuserinfo();

If($current_user->user_login != ‘admin‘) {

?>

}

}?>

In the above code i have tried to hide the Plugins menu, Appearance menu, media menu, settings menu and links menu.

2. Users.php [..wp-admin/users.php] : Editing this file would restrict users including the administrators to delete your account.

Find this line in the code

if ( ! current_user_can(‘edit_user’, $id) )

wp_die(__(‘You can’t edit that user.’));

add this in the if condition

|| $userid[0] == 1 && $current_user->ID != 1

now your code should be

if ( ! current_user_can(‘edit_user’, $id) || $userid[0] == 1 && $current_user->ID != 1)

wp_die(__(‘You can’t edit that user.’));

Note: Take care that the since the admin user had user id as 1 this code is valid. You need to find out user id of your user, by try and deleting your account by some other admin account and you when you reach the confirmation page you see something like this

ID #2: RiYo8 ———–> 2 is the ID and Riyo8 is my user name.

or you can directly access your database check out the table Wp_users and find your username entry and corresponding userid.

3. user-edit.php [..wp-admin/user-edit.php]: Editing this file would restrict users including the administrators to change your password.

find this line this is the very check for a valid user id in the file

if ( !$user_id ){

……..//come line of code

} elseif ( !get_userdata($user_id) ) {

wp_die( __(‘Invalid user ID.’) );

}

and just add your user id and change it to

if ( !$user_id || $user_id == 1) { ——> again user ID you your own user

This would prompt and invalid id error when someone tries to change your password.

Although there are and can be various ways of doing this, this is what I have done and tested.

Do send me comments and queries if you have any, i’ll be happy to help.

Check out my next post where I will show you how to reset your Super Administrator password in case you have forgot you password.

Best of luck!

Now Import your Blog from Blogger to WordPress !

Ripul Kumar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:19:41 +0000

Ever wished to transfer you Blog from Google Blogger account to WordPress account . Ever wished to install interesting themes, widgets,games and so many interactive things on your blog?

Now you can make an easy transition of your Blog from Blogger to WordPress . Watch the video below and know how to transfer your blog from blogger to WordPress:

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WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2 Released!

Ripul Kumar — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:42:29 +0000

WordPress has recently released a newer version of the blogging interface WordPress 2.8.1. WordPress which currently holds a position 19 under top websites of the world(Acc. to Alexa ...check it out ) has been constantly evolving its software and it has come a long way after the 2.6 version to 2.8 version . WordPress has been making updates in security and the theme connectivity as some themes were using function calls in previous wordpress versions.

Download WordPress 2.8.2 Beta 2

WordPress Bug Fixes more info

Report a Bug to wordpress

Wordpress Most Notable fixes in beta 2:

Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.

Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.

The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.

A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.

Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.

Translation of role names fixed

wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title

Upload error messages are now correctly reported

Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed

Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed

SSH2 filesystem requirements updated

Switched back to curl as the default transport

Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload

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