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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you run into Password Recovery Error with Wordpress Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid, do the following
To correct this, fire up phpmyadmin ( it will be usually mysql.yoursite.com) in Cpanel,
click on the database name,
Select “wp_users” Table
Click on Brose Icon ( first icon)
Click on the Row to edit the password
Click [...]
