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How to Create Tabbed Conents in Wordpress Sidebar

Raghu — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:30:53 +0000

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 API and examples, it looks promising and powerful way to to create tabbed contents. I will post an update after giving it a shot.

How to Change Wordpress Theme Editing MySql Tables

Raghu — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:27:22 +0000

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 value to theme name you want to change (Example : default)
Save the table

If some plugin have corrupted the theme files, using above change, you can set the default theme.

How to Change Default Wordpress Excerpt Length

Raghu — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:16:36 +0000

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 to desired number of words and save the file.
Refresh the page and see the results ( you may have to clear the cache)

9 Things To Do Before Ugrading Wordpress

Raghu — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:57:38 +0000

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 upgrade in local wordpress installation ( if downtime of site might be major issue)
Perform Wordpress Upgrade
Upgrade Wordpress Database if required
Check if Site is up and running.
Click on few links to to check if URL structure is maintained.
Activate the supported plugins one at a time.

Wordpress 2.8.6 to 2.9 upgrade created couple of problems. It was because

Some of the plug-in’s didn’t support 2.9
db_version in Table WP_Options had incorrect value.

After I fixed the db_verison, site was up and running, but all the url was broken. It was due to unsupported some plug-in in 2.9

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

Raghu — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:43:37 +0000

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 on your way, we have to upgrade your database to the newest version.

The upgrade process may take a little while, so please be patient.

Upgrade WordPress Database

When I click on the button, after few seconds empty WordPress logo was diaplayed. Lookig at the url, there seems to be problem with url redirect. I can now not log into my domain b/c it brings me back to same Database Upgrade Required Page.

I searched online to see that many are having same issue. I came across the following solution that had the fix.Changing wp_db_verison to same value displayed in the databse for Wordpress 2.9 fixed the problem.

Value in Database for 2.9 was 11548.

Next time I’m not going to do an automatic upgrade within few days of new wordpress release.

Wordpress Password – Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid

Raghu — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:58:00 +0000

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 on the pencil icon for editing the table, then do the following:
User pass > Function > MD5 and type in your new password
Click the “go” button and all should be fine.

This should fix the problem.