How to Create Tabbed Conents in Wordpress Sidebar

There are many scripts available to create Tabbed Contents in wordpress. Some of them are  DomTab, Tabifier and idTabs,
Usually, tabbed contents are used in the sidebar to display popular posts, recent comments, tags, categories or archives. I recently came across another tool to create tabbed contents in Wordpress using Yahoo Developers Network Tabview.
After reviewing the [...]

How to Insert Adsense in bbPress Forum

BBpress is light weight forum created by makers of Wordpress. It’s easy to install and has the same interface as Wordpress.  Displaying Adsense ad within bbpress takes about 2 minutes.
Follow the steps to display adsense ad just above and below the Page Navigation

Steps to Insert Adsense Code in bbPress
Instructions below is for the default theme [...]

How to Change Wordpress Theme Editing MySql Tables

Follow the simple steps to change the Wordpress Theme ny editing MySql Tables(Wordpress database). You might run into situations when you have access to only backend.
Change Wordpress Theme

Logn into MySQL Database for your site (Example : msql.example.com)
Open the Database for your site ( DB_example)
Open the Table wp_options
Open Browse Tab
Find the option’s template and stylesheet
Edit the [...]

How to Change Default Wordpress Excerpt Length

Default wordpress excerpt length is 55 words. It’s easy to change the default excerpt length in wordpress in less than 2 minutes to desired length. I made changes to wordpress 2.9.2 code.

Login into Directory where wordpress is installed
Open the file Directory > wp-includes > formatting,php
Search for 55 or $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 55);
Change the value 55 [...]

How to Get Organic Google Traffic using Google Buzz

How to use Google Buzz to get Organic Google Search Traffic? Just follow the steps below.
Organic Traffic from Google Buzz
Combining Google’s 3 powerful features

Results from people in your social circle for “search phrase”
Cookies that remembers your search preferences
Google Buzz Network (Followers)

So, you have a blog and you want to drive more traffic to your blog.

Building [...]

Send Tweets via Email Using TweetyMail

Anil Chawla – friend of mine has created this cool Twitter App called TweetyMail, eMail to Twitter Posting App. It allows you to tweet straight from your email inbox, without switching to new window or Twitter App.
How it Works
To get started, click the “Sign in with Twitter” button below. After signing in, tweetymail simply needs [...]

Configure Gmail to Use Google Apps SMTP Server

Alright, you have multiple Gmail accounts and using Google Apps for your domain, then sending email your perosnal gmail account using Domain SMTP server just got easier. To send email from your Gmail account using Google Apps SMTP server, Google will provide 2 options

Send using Gmail Server
Send using your domain’s SMTP server.

Configure Domain SMTP Server
In [...]

9 Things To Do Before Ugrading Wordpress

If you are planning to upgrade wordpress to latest release, do the following

Read Worpdress Support forums to see any upgrade problems
Backup Entire Database
Check for Minimum Requirements ( MySQL, PHP)
Check if all installed plugins supports the latest version of wordpress.
Deactivate all the plugins
Know how to revert to previous wordpress version, if upgrade were to fail.
Test the [...]

[Fixed] 2.8.6 to 2.9 Worpress Database Upgrade Required – Failed

Looks like 2.8.6 to 2.9 Wordpress upgrade is is failing for many folks. Just after the upgrade the screen of death (blank screen) is displayed with just wordpress logo
This is what happened

Upgraded Wordpress from 2.8.6 to 2.9 from within wordpress
Refreshed the wp-admin page
Following screen was displayed

Database Upgrade Required
WordPress has been updated! Before we send you [...]

How to Get Triple Listing in Google Search Results

Having your site listed twice in Google Serch reults will definetly have higher click through rate compared to single listing.  What if you site has Triple Indented listing in Google ?
With competition heating up between Google and Bing search, Google is coming out with many search options. I guess, as part of that, google decided [...]