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How to disable the link to parent pages when using wp_list_pages in WordPress

2012-02-20T15:47:00.005+05:30

Last day I was working on one of my clients' web site, and he made a request that he wanted to avoid links to certain parent pages of his WordPress site. As I was using wp_list_pages for generating dynamic menus, it was not possible to unlink parent pages or each page individually . So I tried to find out a simple way to achieve this function and finally got a small function that will disable links of individual pages.

Below is the code that I used, just copy this and paste it in your header.php file is enough.

<script type="text/javascript">jQuery(function($) { $("li.page-item-10").children("a").attr('href', "javascript:void(0)");});</script>

In the above example code I had given page id as 10, just replace 10 with your page id.Now if you want to disable more than one page, then simply use the below code,

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($) {
$("li.page-item-10,li.page-item-14,li.page-item-15").children("a").attr('href', "javascript:void(0)");
});
</script>

Feel free to leave comment here if you are facing any problem while using this function.

Blogspot Domain Changed From .com to .in or ccTLD.

2012-02-02T00:19:00.008+05:30

You might have noticed that recently Google changed all BlogSpot domains to your country's TLD, that is ccTLD ( Country code Top Level Domain). If your blog is from India then your Blogspot address might be changed from “blogspot.com” to “blogspot.in”, or if you are from UK then to “blogspot.uk”.

But for custom domains this change does not affect. Actually youwill not be able to see any changes for the performance or look and feel of your blog except the URL of the blog.

Why Blogger/Blogspot changed domain to countries TLD?

This migration to localized domains will help Google to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. Google can manage content removals on a per country basis by utilizing ccTLDs, which will reduce their impact to the smallest number of readers. That is, content removed due to specific country’s law will only be removed from the specific ccTLD.

How To Remove Blogger Threaded Commenting

2012-01-27T11:47:00.006+05:30

Few days before I had written an article about activating blogger’s new threaded commenting feature. It is a superb feature of blog. But yet few small bugs are there in this threaded commenting. Many of the users complaining that, when someone clicking on their blog post heading, control taking them to the commenting section instead of top of the blog post. This only happens if there are comments in that particular post. This may reduce adsense earnings and visitors.

So here I’m going to explain a simple method to remove threaded commenting from your blogger blog. Dont’ worry we can activate them back as soon as Google fixes all this bugs.

So now follow the below steps to get rid of threaded commenting from your blog.

How To Activate Facebook Video Chatting?

2012-01-17T23:43:00.006+05:30

Facebook finally announced it’s rumored video chatting feature in partnership with Skype to the world’s most popular social networking site. This seems to be a big step against Google+’s hanguout feature.

You will need to enable facebook video calling option for start using this feature with your friends. This can be done by following few simple steps that given below.

Go to http://www.facebook.com/videocalling
You can see a green button labelled ‘Get Started’. Click on it.

How To Enable Threaded Commenting in Blogger Blogs?

2012-01-15T03:06:00.005+05:30

Blogger has just announced the much awaited feature "Threaded Comments For Blogger" last day. Now By using this new feature you can reply to a particular comment and read the entire conversation. Blogger threaded commenting feature helps us to easily differentiate between whether someone is responding to another comment on the thread or making a general comment on the thread.

How To Use Custom Share Button For LinkedIn?

2012-01-12T21:53:00.010+05:30

We often want to use our own LinkedIn share button that matches our website design or available space.Here is a bit of code that allows the use of our own custom image file for the LinkedIn share button. Copy and paste the below code into your site.

<a href=”http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://your page url&title=Title of your page &summary=Content description of your page & source= Website Name” target=”_new”> <img src=”Yourimage.png” alt=”Share in LinkedIn” width=”18″ height=”18″ title=” Share in LinkedIn” /> </a>

Please change your page url, Title of your page, Content description of your page and Website Name according to your site details.

How To Get Category ID Using Category Slug in WordPress?

2012-01-09T22:05:00.006+05:30

Few days before I had written a post by explaining a simple method for getting category id using category name in WordPress. Today let us study an easy way to get category id using category slug.

Get category by slug function is an easy method for retrieving category id using category slug.

How To Use?

<?php get_category_by_slug( $cat-slug ) ?>

Here $cat-slug is the parameter of this function. So pass your category’s slug instead of $cat-slug .

How To Change Excerpt Length In WordPress.

2012-01-06T01:35:00.008+05:30

<p>When developing a wordpress site you might have worked with WordPress post excerpts "the_excerpt()". Basically excerpt is using for displaying short summary of a post. We use <?php the_excerpt();?> for displaying post excerpts.
Default excerpts length is 55 words, that means it will display 55 words or more in most WordPress index pages and archive pages.
Here I'm going to show you how to change the excerpt length to fit your blog/site needs. You can increase or decrease the length of excerpt by adding a small filter function into your theme's function.php file.</p>

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How To Display Recent Post Titles Under Labels.

2012-01-04T22:36:00.024+05:30

Have you fed up by adding your recent posts in different categories/labels manually?
Then I have here a simple solution for you to add your recent posts automatically under different categories or labels. Once only you need to add this to your blog, after the list will automatically update itself.

Just follow the below steps to add this in your blog.

Go to Dashboard > Design > Page Elements.
Click Add A Gadget.
Then select HTML/Javascript .
Then enter a label as the title of your widget.
Then paste below code inside the content box.
Save changes

How To Type In Indian Languages Using Google IME.

2012-01-03T13:39:00.010+05:30

Friends,

Have you ever wondered, how your friends are updating their facebook status in Hindi/Tamil/Malayalam or how they are sending scraps to you in these regional languages ?.
Then its time for you too to own that trick.Now it is easily possible for you to write in your own native language by a technology called Transliteration.

Various transliteration providers are available nowadays. But the one provided by Google is very simple and offers lot of extra functionalities to the user. So here I’m going to explain about Google Transliteration IME and how to activate it in your system.

What is Google Transliteration IME ?

Google Transliteration helps user to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Google Transliteration IME will convert a word that is entered by a user to its native script. Don’t think that this is same as translation. It is just converting a word from one alphabet to other, not their meaning.

Currently Google Transliteration IME supports 22 different languages including Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Kannada,Hindi,Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Malayalam, Tamil, Urdu.

Awesome Logo Slideshow Plugin For Your Blog.

2011-12-31T22:24:00.008+05:30

Hi friends,

Last day I was working on a website that needs a logo slideshow on its footer. And I found that Logo Slideshow Plugin is best for doing this feature in our WordPress website or blog.

Logo Slideshow is a great WordPress Plugin for showing logos of your customer’s with link in your wordPress blog. And like all other slideshow we can move forward and backward to see more logos.

This plugin can be integrated anywhere in your Website/Blog. Some of the features of this Logo Slideshow plugin are

Links with target=blank to Logo Homepage
Arrows for navigating through the Logos
Administration Setting for setting Logo URL's and Paths
Very stylish highlighting when hovering with mouse

How To Remove Image Title Tag In WordPress?

2011-12-28T23:28:00.009+05:30

A title attribute of an image is normally used to show any text when you hover the mouse over the image. In some cases you may want to remove these title tags from your blog. We can do this by three methods.

Install a WordPress Plugin
Edit function.php and add our own code
Using Javascript

What is Facebook Timeline And How To Activate It ?

2011-12-21T23:32:00.003+05:30

Hi Friends,

You might have noticed a newest feature of Facebook named Timeline. This post is a small explanation about Facebook Timeline and how to enable it in your profile.

What is a Facebook Timeline?

Facebook Timeline is one of the latest features of Facebook. Timeline allows lots of superb options to users. Some of them are:

You can edit your basic profile information.
Can view your activity logs, like a digital diary!
You can check important activities from each month.
You can rate the stories that you want to highlight to your friends.
And can include your life events.

How To Add Falling Christmas Snow To Your Blog ?

2011-12-19T21:34:00.002+05:30

Hi friends,

Eagerly waiting for enjoying Christmas na? All have started Christmas celebrations.

You might have noticed even Google too is celebrating this festive time by funny surprises.Google has added a special snow falling effect to their search engine. (Please type “let it snow” and enter in Google to see this)checked it?
How is it?

Then friends, how does my blog look today? This is my special Christmas edition.Feel cool with the snow falling effect?
Wanna welcome this Christmas by adding this cool snow falling effect in to our blogs too?
It is very simple; please follow some simple steps to add Christmas snow falling effect to your blog.

Blogger Bloggers please follow the below steps.

How To Hide Files And Folders Without Using Any Software? - Attrib Command.

2011-12-19T20:39:00.001+05:30

Wanna hide and protect your personal files and folders from others? As you might know, lots of third party software are available nowadays for protecting your data, but most of them are too expensive

Here is a simple but a very helpful trick,which assures total security to your personal files,that also free of cost.You can do this by using a window built-in function named Attrib.You can edit mainly three attributes of a file, they are;

1) Read only

2) Hidden Attribute
3) System Attribute

Follow these simple steps listed below to edit your file’s attributes to hide and protect your data. Please note that, to do this operation you have to log in as administrator.

How To Change phpBB Header and Logo?

2011-12-18T23:02:00.001+05:30

Hi friends,

In my previous post I had explained about phpBB Open Source Bulletin Board Software and how to install and configure it. Now in this post I am going to explain you that how to change phpBB forum software’s existing header and logo with yours.

What is a WordPress Plugin? And How To Install It?

2011-12-17T01:22:00.001+05:30

Hi friends, in my most of blog post I used to discuss about various type of WordPress Plugins. But now too some of us don’t know actually what is a Plugin is,and how to install or configure it. This post is just for helping them to explain about WordPress Plugin and its usage.

WordPress Plugins are small program or a group of programs which is used to increase the functionality of our website in some way. Most of the plug-ins are developed by using PHP scripting language and add an additional functions or features to our website.

Open Source Bulletin Board Software - PhpBB3

2011-12-14T11:20:00.001+05:30

Hi friends, Last day I was working on phpBB software. It was a nice experience. So

I like to share it with you here.

phpBB is a popular open source bulletin board software written in php scripting language. "phpBB" stands for PHP Bulletin Board. By Using this forum software we can create very unique bulletin board. in minutes.

Google Syntax Highlighter For WordPress

2011-12-08T13:39:00.001+05:30

Syntax highliter is a great way to highlight certain code snippets in your blog post. So one can write programming codes in their WordPress blog posts according to it's syntax. Google Syntax Highlighter For WordPress is a great plugin that allows a user to add this mechanism to their blog.

How To Create Custom Fields In Your WordPerss Blog- Advanced Custom Field Widget.

2011-12-05T22:35:00.001+05:30

Advanced Custom Field Widget is a great plugin that I have ever seen for creating our own custom field in WordPress blog. This plugin will make our blog more flexible like any other CMS. We can avoid lots of unwanted,complicated codes and time by using this advanced custom field widget.

We can add our own custom field names and custom field values to our blog posts. And later we can retrieve these values in our blog using get_post_meta() function.

How To Add Cute Flying Twitter Bird In To Your Blog - Animated Twitter Bird.

2011-11-30T23:34:00.003+05:30

Wanna make your blog more lively…? Here is a simple way with a great deal of gains…!
Won’t it be cool, if a small, cute bird flies around your blog post when the reader scroll your web page up and down.

Add a little twitter bird to your blog. This flying inmate will help you to tweet your blogs and websites and thereby enhance your chance of good traffic from twitter.
This is not a simple bird. Once you move your mouse over this twitter bird two options will come. One is to follow you in twitter and another one is to post your tweets.

Return The Vimeo Video Thumbnail By ID In PHP

2011-11-28T21:31:00.002+05:30

Hi in some occasions we may need to display some video's thumbnail in our blog posts. Today I was working on one of the projects that needed to display vimeo video thumbnail in it. I used a small PHP code to get vimeo video thumbnail by it's Id.

Here it is.

$imgid = 6271487;

$hash = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$imgid.php"));

echo $hash[0]['thumbnail_medium'];

Here '$imgid' is the vimeo video id. And the final video thumbnail can be available at '$hash[0]['thumbnail_medium'];'
Hope this will help you..

WP-PageNavi - Add a More Advanced Paging Navigation Interface In To Your Blog.

2011-11-27T12:41:00.003+05:30

I am sure that WP-PageNavi plugin will be the one and only easiest plugin for styling page navigation of WordPress blogs. WP-PageNavi is a great WordPress plugin which generates fancy pagination links by using the wp_pagenavi() template.

Screen Shot.

How To Delete Skype Chat History.

2011-11-24T17:09:00.002+05:30

Most of the Skype users don't know how to remove Skype chat history. But it is too simple.
You can delete your

    * Calls
    * Voicemails
    * Instant messages
    * Sent and received files.
    * SMS messages

Please be aware before doing this. You will not be able to restore or recover this deleted information later.

WordPress : Get Category ID Using Category Name

2011-11-21T17:23:00.002+05:30

When developing a wordpress site we often need to get a category ID from it's name. Here is a very simple way to get category ID from category name.
First of all, Please paste the below code in your function.php file.

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