Good news is downgrading Latest Version of WordPress to a older version of WordPress  is very  easy task and that same as upgrading a WordPress to newer version but in reverse way.

Here I going to share my experience with you, how you can install older WordPress on newest version of WordPress. let say installing WordPress 3.0.0 on WordPress Version 3.2.1 without losing  current WordPress setting and data.  Save your time and avoid headache and enjoy reading this most wanted WordPress tip!

1. First make full back up of your site.  Including your WordPress folders and database. You are reading this becase you missed to backup your WordPress before upgrade. Its good practice to backup your WordPress before upgrade or downgrade. You need to have access to your site control panel. Using a ftp program such as Filezilla you can make a copy of all files to your computer. By using a ftp program such as PhpMyAdmin you can  backup  your WordPress database. Also most control panel have a function that let you to backup everything just by one click.
2. Deactivate all active plugins.  Login to WordPress admin area and go to plugins section. Select active plugins and deactivate them. Pretty easy. First time I was afraid to lose my plugins and WordPress settings if I downgrade My WordPress . I write down  all settings of my plugins. It took almost 2 hours.  Good news is you can skip this part! don’t worry you have a full backup. right? ( I hope so!). then you have a option to restore your site to previews state and make a snapshot of setting of bad plugins if needed. Its safe to deactivate your plugin before downgrade. but it can be just fine if you do not do.
3. Delete wp-admin and wp-includes folder. ( make sure no plugin use this folders to save something).
   ( update: I know its little scary to delete these folders. but you can always get these folders back from your backup or you can get a copy of it be extracting latest WordPress zip file. Also  I found another easy and faster way. Some Ftp software such as filezilla allow you to drag and drop folder to another location. Simply create a folder with name  _oldWP and select wp-admin and wp-includes and drag it to _oldWP folder. This is much faster than deleting these folders and same time it allow you to have them at _oldWP folder)
4. get the old version of wordpress that you need from wordpress.org release-archive
   at the writing time of this post, most people like to downgrade from wordpress Version 3.2.1 to wordpress Version 3.1.0! that is because most famous  plugin such as light box! are not ready to get power of latest WordPress yet.
5. unzip your desired version of WordPress and overwrite all files to your website by using ftp program. ( this will copy wp-admin and wp-includes to your ftp as well)
6. Go to your site admin area. This time you won’t see WordPress admin login page. Instead  you will notice a message that say wordpress need to upgrade current wordpress to new one!!. do not worry. It just shy to say it is actually downgrading but it know how to its job to downgrade your WordPress = )
7. login to admin area again (and activate all plugins you need).
   WordPress even tell you what plugin were active before downgrade, So you can activate all of them in one step.

Everything will be fine and you can enjoy old WordPress installation on new on WordPress like you never did a upgrade.I tried to write as much as details I could.  Please share this post, If you found it useful.

If for any reason you are still afraid to do this scary task.  let me know to do it for you. You will need to let me know what is your WordPress admin login details and your ftp login details. Please note this service is not free and it will cost you  50$ that you can pay after successful downgrade using PayPal. I will back up your site first and I take a movie of downgrading process that will show you how I downgrade your site. So next time you can do it your self.

The New Year is coming, There are always some simple task that we missed to do. Some time simple things can be missed for years. One good example is your site copyright date.I noticed while now is 2010 but my site footer date still displayed 2009 and this may remain for 2011 or even 2012. You know not only HeCode. you also can code! let see how to fix this forever.

by using following simple PHP code, your Copyright date will change every year. Add this code once to your WordPress footer and enjoy rest of your life:)

&#169; Copyright <?php
$from = 2009;
$now = date('Y');
if ($from == $now)
echo $now;
else
echo "$from - $now"; 
?> YourSite.com

Make sure to edit $from and set it to the year that your site was launched. Final year is automatically calculated using PHP’s date() function. but it you just created your site. It will display one date.

Do you want to see an example? Then have a look to my site footer. You will love it!

Do you know you can add new member to your wordpress without even visiting your WordPress website? Sound unreal? yeah. but here is an example that shows how you can use  WishList Member reset Interface to insert a user into your WordPress remotely.

Try following code, remember to replace your site url and your Wishlist Member Secret Word.
Example: http://screencast.com/t/Cq8sMmkwF

Ok here is a example code to insert a member into your WordPress remotely by using WishList member REST API interface.

<?php
/*
Example by Andy ( hecode.com)

AddUser( string $username, string $email, string $password, [string $firstname=''], [string $lastname=''] )

Add a new user to WishList Member. This functions requires 5 parameters:

   1. string $username the username for the new user
   2. string $email  the email address for the new user
   3. string $password  the password for the new user
   4. string $firstname  the first name of the new user
   5. string $lastname  the last name of the new user
*/
$Fxn = 'AddUser';
$username="andydepp";
$email="andy@example.com";
$password="mypassword";
$firstname="Andy";
$lastname="Depp";
//echo $URL;

$params = array ($username,$email,$password,$firstname,$lastname);
$Key = md5 ($Fxn . '__' . $Secret . '__' . implode ('|',$params));

$URL="http://wp3db.com/?WLMAPI=$Fxn/$Key/$username/$email/$password/$firstname/$lastname";

$ch = curl_init ($URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$RESTReturn = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);


echo '<br /> return value=' . $RESTReturn ."<br />";

list ($status, $return) = unserialize ($RESTReturn);
 if ($status) {
 // successful- do something useful here
 var_dump ($return);
 } else {
 // failed, show error message
 echo $return;
 }
?>

Note: If your secret word or parameters or order of parameters are wrong you will get a message like a:2:{i:0;b:0;i:1;s:20:”AUTHORIZATION FAILED”;}

If everything was fine you will get a message like:

return value=a:2:{i:0;b:1;i:1;i:5;}
int(5)

That shows new user with user id = 5 is created.

Need more guide? Visit WishList Member

Wishlist Member have a API that allow us to take control of WordPress core functions and do what we want by using simple line of code. but that is not all. You can do even  control your WordPress remotely. How it feel to add a new member ship level to your current WordPress member from another website? possibles are unlimited. Fortunately it is very simple than you think. here are an example to show you how you can do it yourself.

The same functions available to WishList Member extensions can be made available to remote applications via a simple to use REST interface. This allows developers to create a lot of different applications that control a particular WishList Member powered website remotely.

Lets start:

Silver user have no level    http://screencast.com/t/OJyWmWyrNjnl

I want to add Silver level to this user remotely.

<?php
$Fxn = 'AddUserLevels';
$Secret = 'BIKLOQRhGKLManqs';
$txnid="my-txnid-999";
$user=2;
$params = array ($user,1288000826,$txnid);
$Key = md5 ($Fxn . '__' . $Secret . '__' . implode ('|',$params));

$URL="http://example.com/?WLMAPI=$Fxn/$Key/$user/1288000826/$txnid";

//echo $URL;

$ch = curl_init ($URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$RESTReturn = curl_exec($ch);      
curl_close($ch);


echo '<br /> return value=' . $RESTReturn ."<br />";

list ($status, $return) = unserialize ($RESTReturn);
 if ($status) {
 // successful do something useful here
 var_dump ($return);
 } else {
 // failed, show error message
 echo $return;
 }

?>

Simply create a php file with name addlevel.php and copy past similar code. We need copy our file to a php enabled server and run it.

by visiting our file url ( for example Http://example.com/addlevel.php) , Silver user will be added to “silver” Member ship level remotely.
Example: http://screencast.com/t/9JfscW39Qaf

How it works?

A) We want to call “AddUserLevels” remotely.  You can call this function to add a level right inside your wordpress theme or plugin cod when wishlist member plugin is activated. but here we want to call it from another website or perhaps a standalone php file that have nothing to do with our wordpress installation.

B) What we need is user id (which is 2 here) and level silver level id (which is 1288000826 here) . we also need Secret Word that you can get from Wishlist member integration tab.

Example: http://screencast.com/t/Cq8sMmkwF

Txnid is your shopping cart transaction_id, It can be anything at our example.

C) Replace your own similar variables. If you save it and run it. You will see a message like a:2:{i:0;b:1;i:1;b:1;} that shows result is successful.

If you echo $url value, you will see a url like

http://example.com/?WLMAPI=AddUserLevels/d8feb2f5ff2add0c558e768a4d6581b1/2/1288000826/my-txnid-999

Just   visiting above url is enough to add our user to silver level. we used curl to make it happen from inside our code.

Note: if your secret word or parameters are wrong you will get a message like a:2:{i:0;b:0;i:1;s:20:”AUTHORIZATION FAILED”;}

Note. Order of parameters are important.

More information can be found at Wishlistmember API Quide.

WishList Member is a powerful WordPress plugin that allow to protect WordPress contents such as post or even files by adding levels to WordPress users.   It have friendly user interface and easy to us.  But you can go farther to do whatever you want using Wishlist member API.  Here I want to show you how easy you can add new levels directly from code.

Example code:

$my_user_id=2;

$mywlmapi= new WLMAPI();

echo "<h3>1) we want to see user levels </h3>";
echo "<pre>";
$my_user_levels=$mywlmapi->GetUserLevels($my_user_id );
var_dump( $my_user_levels);
echo "</pre>";

echo "<h3>2) we want see all levels details </h3>";
echo "<pre>";
$my_all_levels=$mywlmapi->GetLevels();
var_dump( $my_all_levels);
echo "</pre>";

echo "<h3>3) we want to add a levels </h3>";
echo "<br><pre>";
$AddUserLevelsresult=$mywlmapi->AddUserLevels($my_user_id, array('1288000851'));
var_dump( $AddUserLevelsresult);
echo "</pre>";

echo "<h3>4) again we want to see user levels </h3>";
echo "<pre>";
$my_user_levels=$mywlmapi->GetUserLevels($my_user_id );
var_dump( $my_user_levels);
echo "</pre>"; 

And here is example  output

1) we want to see user levels

array(1) {
[1288000826]=>
string(6) "silver" <-------- user with id=2 only have one level with level id= 1288000826 which is silver level
}

2) we want see all levels details

array(2) {
[1288000826]=>
array(12) {
["name"]=>
string(6) "silver"
["url"]=>
string(6) "Sdep89"
["loginredirect"]=>
string(3) "---"
["afterregredirect"]=>
string(3) "---"
["noexpire"]=>
string(1) "1"
["upgradeTo"]=>
string(0) ""
["upgradeAfter"]=>
string(0) ""
["upgradeMethod"]=>
string(0) ""
["count"]=>
string(1) "1"
["role"]=>
string(10) "subscriber"
["levelOrder"]=>
string(0) ""
["ID"]=>
int(1288000826)
}
[1288000851]=> <----------- Golden level id that we want add it to user levels
array(10) {
["wpm_newid"]=>
string(10) "1288000851"
["name"]=>
string(6) "golden"
["url"]=>
string(6) "NOWYj2"
["loginredirect"]=>
string(3) "---"
["afterregredirect"]=>
string(3) "---"
["noexpire"]=>
string(1) "1"
["role"]=>
string(10) "subscriber"
["levelOrder"]=>
string(0) ""
["count"]=>
string(1) "1"
["ID"]=>
int(1288000851)
}
}

3) we want to add a levels

bool(true) <--- level is added with no problem

4) again we want to see user levels

array(2) {
[1288000826]=>
string(6) "silver"
[1288000851]=>
string(6) "golden" <-------- user now have two levels, silver and golden
}

Example Screenshots:

http://screencast.com/t/3YMSUOM4lxN

http://screencast.com/t/yWVDuhsxkF

http://screencast.com/t/w2jjp6Hcfg

http://screencast.com/t/2cXIgm15R

http://screencast.com/t/b3g2DzOGNEvH

Wonder what is Wishlist member wordpress plugin and what it can do?  check here

One of the great features of WordPress is that it allows you to automatically install and upgrade plugins.

A common problem is that WordPress is unable to access the filesystem directly, which results in a page indicating that “To perform the requested action, connection information is required.” learn how you can fix this

If you feel that your WordPress installation should not be asking you for this information, or you simply do not want WordPress to use this method of plugin management, you may be able to work around it.
What is Causing This?

Whenever you use the WordPress control panel to automatically install, upgrade, or delete plugins, WordPress must make changes to files on the filesystem.

Before making any changes, WordPress first checks to see whether or not it has access to directly manipulate the file system.

If WordPress does not have the necessary permissions to modify the filesystem directly, you will be asked for FTP credentials so that WordPress can try to do what it needs to via FTP.
Why Can’t WordPress Write To The Filesystem?

In order to understand why WordPress can’t write to the filesystem, we need to take a look at some WordPress internals.

The following code is from the get_filesystem_method() method in the wp-admin/includes/file.php file:

if( function_exists(‘getmyuid’) && function_exists(‘fileowner’) ){
$temp_file = wp_tempnam();
if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
$method = ‘direct’;
unlink($temp_file);
}

This code creates a temporary file and confirms that the file just created is owned by the same user that owns the script currently being run. In the case of installing plugins, the script being run is wp-admin/plugin-install.php.

This may seem a little counter-intuitive, since the only thing WordPress really needs to be able to do is write to the wp-content/plugins directory.
What Can I Do About It?

In order to fix this issue, you will need to make sure that the scripts which need to write to the filesystem are owned by the same user that apache is running as.

Many hosting companies will run your apache instance using your user account, and all of your files will be owned by the same account. In those cases, you will probably not have the issue described here.

If your hosting company is running apache as a system user, and your files are owned by your own account, your only option may be to enter your FTP credentials here and allow WordPress to use FTP.

If you are running on a hosting company that gives you root access, or you have installed WordPress on your own development machine at home or at work, you should be able to modify the filesystem permissions to allow WordPress to directly access the filesystem.

The easiest way to do this is to find out what user apache is running as and change ownership of the entire WordPress directory to that user. For example, if apache is running as ‘httpd’, you could use the following commands on your WordPress installation directory:

# chown -R httpd: wordpress

Similar you also can us:

# chown -R apache: public_html/

Tip: In order to find out what user your instance of apache is running as, create a test script with the following content:
<?php echo(exec("whoami")); ?>

This script removes extra Wishlist Members pages.

Usage:

1. Deactivate all WordPress plugins
2. Upload this script to root of your WordPress path on your server via ftp and point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/your-wordpress-path/remove-wlm-extra-pages.php
3. Remove Wishlist Member duplicate pages by clicking on “remove it” bottom
4. Delete the script from your server.
5. Activate wishlist member plugin.
6. Visit one of “Registration URL” at “WL Member » Manage Membership Levels” to generate wishlist member page.
7. Activate other plugins
8. Have fun

Example:

Download it here: remove-wlm-extra-pages.zip

Most of us start to write posts by default admin user. Then  we may have more author. or maybe you have lots of posts under a author but now you wish to move them to another author without deleting the old author?  here is tips how you can do it.

You can do this with two way.

A) Moving post to new author by deleting old author:

at user section of  WordPress admin area, find old author and Delete old author. then WordPress will ask you who you want to assign the posts that was belong to old author. Pretty simple, but you will lose old author user.

If you like keep old author user but move all post of old author to new one. then try following solution:

B) Moving post to new author without deleting old author:

First we need find old author id. You find it by holding mouse on old author username at user section in WordPress admin area

You also can do it via phpmyadmin by using following sql

 SELECT ID  FROM wp_users where `display_name`='old_author_name'

same you can find ID of new author.

Now we move all post from old author to new author . here is the sql code

 UPDATE wp_posts SET `post_author`='new_auhtor_id' WHERE
`post_author`='old_author_id'

There are no plugin to do above. If you enjoined it tweet it!

I created this page to answer your all kind of  questions about Wishlist Member WordPress plugin. Do you have any difficulty getting most of WishList member? Wonder how other site used Wishlist member and you wish to know that? Newbie and advanced  questions  are welcome. I answer all type of related question. Feel free to ask you question via comment.

Thank you.

Andy

• What you do if your  original WordPress admin login do not work?
• What you do if a hacker changed your wordpress admin login username or password?
• What you do if a seller tell you code/test a theme/plugin on his website and tell you this has to be done within next few hours but he forgot give you right  WordPress admin  login details?
• did you ever found you forgot to write wordpress admin details right after fresh wordpress installation?
• What you do if website owner don’t want to give you phpmyadmin or host control panel info?

Add new admin to wordpress without knowing orginal admin details

let make it simple you need free WordPress Emergency Add New Admin!

• Download free  addnewadmin.zip and extract it to a folder
• Upload addnewadmin.php to root of your wordpress instalation path using a ftp program such as filezilla
• Navigate your browser to Http://yoursite.com/your_wordpress_instalation_path/addnewadmin/
• You see a form that you can add new admin details. fill and submit and enjoy another new admin.
• When you done, make sure to remove the script/file from your server. so no one else can find it.

Features:

• Tested on WP3
• If new admin user exist it show its info and do not overwrite it
• Just one file.
• Nice and easy user interface like fresh WordPress installation
• It find right database  details such as prefix and connection info.
• Its 100% Free!

Screenshot:

Download latest WordPress Emergency Add New Admin

Update:  Why use AddNewAdmin script instead of phpmyadmin?

1. phpmyadmin is  good if you know how to use it. but AddNewAdmin is more easy and faster and safe. There is no way to lose your database  info with AddNewAdmin.  It only add new admin if same admin is not exist.
2. You need access to phpmyadmin.  Most of the time you need control panel info in order to access to phpmyadmin.  You may have access to your site phpmyadmin via control panel.  But as freelancer you may don’t have it that time.  AddNewAdmin just need ftp info to upload.  AddNewAdmin is good to fix others websites at no time with less info.  Website owner  no need share phpmyadmin info or even cpanel info with you!
3. You can install phpmyadmin and setup it via ftp and use it,  but using addnewadmin take less time , AddNewAdmin no need setup.  Just copy one file and use it right away.  Instead of emailing the buyer and asking for the host or phpmyadmin info,   Create new admin instantly  and do the task and let him know job is done and get paid faster.
4. To create a admin using phpmyadmin you need to do it at least in few steps. finding right tables, creating a user . changing that user to admin. but   AddNewAdmin do all automatically just by one click. It find right wordpress database. It find right prefix.  It test existing user and add new admin where and when it should!
5. by using phpmyadmin  you have to do the task  in hard way. but AddNewAdmin is like drinking water! It give you feel like WordPress way.
6. AddNewAdmin is designed to be safe and fast to do what it say to do.  I personally used it on more than 50 sites  and counting!

have question? ask me via comment.

I backup my wordpress once a month. I recommend  you backup your wordpress  too. You won’t regret  having backup, instead  you will be happy when thing go wrong. There will be always a option to go back. for most having a backup and restore is scary task. but if you do it several time it become habit. I want to explain how you even can make it fun and enjoy having full WordPress backup!

Most important part of your wordpress to have a backup of them is wordpress database and wp-content folder.

you need to make sure you included above in your backup. other section are not much important becase you can always download wordpress core files from wordpress website. or regenerate wp-config and .htaccess  file.

However to mike life easy is best, we create one backup and include all files on server.

Doing full backup of live website

Making backup of database:

Make a database backup using wp-dbmanager wordpress plugin <– good for beginners

other good alternative are WP-phpMyAdmin <–  Good for professionals!

Making  backup of files:

Copy your wordpress files  by using a ftp program such as free ftp filezilla

Restoring from full backup to online website

Restore database from a backup

by using phpmyadmin you can transfer your backup database to online database.

do not worry. there is nothing to lost. because you already have a backup. you may need remove database if you did not checked “ADD DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION” when you did database export.

Restore files from backup to server

This section is easy. again by using ftp program you can copy back or upload all files to your server.

Note:  You can restore your backup to another website too. This way your second website become exact clone of first website. To clone your WordPress to another Domain you need to

• change wp-config file with new database name, user and password.
• Change value of siteurl and home  of wp-option table in database to  new website URL ( using php my admin in new website. or using a text editor and replace the value inside sql file before restoring the database.

How sync my online wordpress with local  wordpress?

As coder the way I do is like this. I sync my online database to my local database. I zip my my online files and after transfer to local storage I extract them in local domain. zipped files are much smaller and copying one file from in much faster and safer  than copy all server files one by one.

To make life easier my local domain and database are same as online domain and database. so I no need change wp-config or database site and home value. So my online website will be 100% exact clone.

Working on exact clone at localhost is very fast and fun. It’s like you have tomorrow internet speed. I sync from server to local one time at end of the month. during month I work at local wordpress. If I were happy with result I transfer them to online wordpress site.

You may want to read my previous post on Simple way to backup your online wordpress website and clone or sync it to local development website by using SSH

Do you have better or easier solution? Please share it with rest of the world in comments.
I hope you enjoyed. If  still you need my assistante , I’ll be happy to help you.

Easy Contact form 7 Guide, Customization and most wanted tips.  Set replay to. change submit button style. Add multi recipients , BB or BCC.  Get all the sender info right inside email body. and give sender a copy too!

—————– Mail section ———–

Example: http://screencast.com/t/YjEzYmI1NGEt

• To: field: The e-mail address that will receive the results.( enter your email )Note: You can add multi recipients. separate them with commas:
  example: Admin@example.com,log@example.com,me@example.com

  you also can display a selection of receptions to select.
  Example: [select recipient "CEO|ceo@example.com" "Sales|sales@example.com" "Support|support@example.com"]

  


• From: field: sender email. example [your-name] <[your-email]>
• Subject: field:  mail subject. example: [your-subject]
• Additional headers: type in Reply-To: [your-email]
  (Very important) This will allow you to reply to the person directly when you are reading the email later.You also can add CC and BCC if you need.

  Example:
  CC: mom@example.com
  BCC:dad@example.com

• Message Body field: Type like following:( thenyou will see all info in one place in email body)[your-message]Subject:[your-subject]
  Name: [your-name]
  Email: [your-email]
  Website: [your-website]
  IP: [_remote_ip]

—————— Mail section 2 ———————

Its good to send another email to sender to let him know we recived his email.

See  example: http://screencast.com/t/ZTE0OTAyYT

If you like to see it in action, Try my contact page and say thank you to me! You will get similar to above screen-shot immediately in your mail box!

————— Messages —————————-

After  form is submitted the viewer is able to see the response messages such as “Your message was sent successfully”, “Validation errors occurred.” etc.

You can change all kind of message that may appear to the sender here.

Example: http://screencast.com/t/NTRlYWU2M

————- Additional Settings ——————-

Good place to add your own JS script. for example if you want to nevigate to a thank you page after submitting a message you can write like this:

on_sent_ok: “location.replace(‘http://yourdomain.com/thank-you/’);”

*How to auto fill a form input?

Add a id to that input.

use below javascript plus exct php plugin to run the code within your post:

* how to change style of submit bottom?

Add a class to submit button :

example: <p align="left">[submit class:buttons_mainpage " "]</p>

then add the  style like this:

.buttons_mainpage {
	background-image: url("images/but_submit.png");
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	margin: 0px 190px 0px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	float: right;
	height: 26px;
	width: 69px;
	border: 0 none;
	cursor: pointer;
}

* How to erase fields on focus

No easy way! You need edit edited \modules\text.php and replace

$html = '
'

with

$html = '<input type="text" name="' . $name . '" value="' . esc_attr( $value ) . '"' . $atts . ' onfocus="if(this.value==\'';

$html = $html . esc_attr( $value ) . '\') this.value=\'\';" onblur="if(this.value==\'\') this.value=\'' . esc_attr( $value ) . '\';" />';

* how to allow only admin edit the contact  form and prevent others?

define( 'WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_CAPABILITY', 'manage_options' );
define( 'WPCF7_ADMIN_READ_WRITE_CAPABILITY', 'manage_options' );

read more about manage_options http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Capabilities

* How to insert contact name and email in database after sucessfull submission?

Contact Form 7 has many action/filter hooks in its code. So, if you are familiar with WordPress plugin development, you can use them to save data into DB.  best hook for it at wpcf7_before_send_mail in includes/classes.php

Example:

add_action( ‘wpcf7_before_send_mail’, ‘my_conversion’ );

function my_conversion( $cf7 )
{
$email = $cf7->posted_data["your-email"];
$name = $cf7->posted_data["your-name"];
insert_newsletter_subscriber($email, $name);
}

Note:  You need to write  your own insert_newsletter_subscriber()

———————–  Tip ————————

You can use folowingspecial mail tags  in main body too:

Note that the [_post_*] tag has value only when you put the contact form into content of a post or a page. They are not available if the contact form is put inside a sidebar widget.

The form of those special mail tags has been changed in Contact Form 7 2.2. Old form ([wpcf7.*]) are still supported and able to work.

———————–  Tip ————————

If you want to show a rest form button, add this:
<input type="reset" />

———————–  Tip ————————

if you want to show post title in email body add this:
[wpcf7.post_title]

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By default, Contact Form 7 loads three JavaScript files — contact-form-7.js, jquery.form.js and jquery.js — into the header of each page. They are necessary for Ajax. If you want to disable such loading of these files in all pages and control it to load in select pages only, you can do that by first prevent their loading totally by inserting the following line in the wp-config.php file.

define ('WPCF7_LOAD_JS', false );

Then you may call these files to load in a particular file by inserting the following line in the relevant template ahead of the call to wp_head():

wpcf7_enqueue_scripts();

Using this tip can improve your WordPress page loading and SEO!

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you can use tag  [response] anywhere you like. this tag is like place holder for displaying message. all message appear where you place a tag [response].

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Is your wordpress two slow?  did you get an error that display not enough memory to run current script?did you get error like this one?

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted.

or PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6233929 bytes) in /home/…/press/wp-includes/cache.php on line 330

or Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 368640 bytes) in /wordpress/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 9575

Then you are lucky to be here! Here are four solution to increase your WordPress memory

1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.iniIf your line shows 32M try 64M or even 128M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
2. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
   
php_value memory_limit 64M
3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:Increasing memory allocated to PHP
   define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
4. Talk to your host!

Update: Monitor real WordPress memory usage:

do you know how much memory your WordPress needed? how much is your pick WordPress memory usage?
If all need memory for your wordpress is 10M. Why you should be worry to set it to 64M? Thats true I found My pick memory usage was just 8M! That is why wordpress default memory usage is only 32M which is more than enough.

Here are two plugin that let you to monitor and know your WordPress current and pick memory usage.
try them before changing your WordPress memory usage to higher value.

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-memory-usage/
  Simple and light. Show up the PHP version, memory limit and current memory usage in the dashboard and admin footer. You can now simple measure the requirements of your plugins and language files
  
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tpc-memory-usage/
  More advanced with more report. view the current and peak memory usage of the application. This is extremely helpful when testing new plugins, or if there are a lot of modifications, plugins, or large language files. As of version 0.4, administrators now have the ability to view detailed system information about their web server, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress software. (Requires PHP5)
• 

After Using above plugin I noticed my PHP memory is set to 128M and my max  WordPress memory is set to 32M

Note: If you add  define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); to the end of WP-config.php it do not work. You have to add it to at top of wp-config.php file (at root of your wordpress directory). here is the final result:

As you see in above screen-shot, My WordPress Memory  limit is set to 64M which is more than enough.

Here is how modified wp-config looks like:

If you are wonder what are rest of the extra gray lines , continue reading simple ways to make youe wordpress faster

Try same yourself. In nutshell you need to do following steps:

1. Check your current  memory by using above  plugins
2. set php.ini memory to higher if needed.
3. Set WordPress Memory to a value equal or less that php.ini memory
4. Check your change is working or not ( by using  above plugins)

If still you had difficulty let me know to help you.

Contact page is one of the most part of your website. Thanks to Contact Form 7 Plugin for WordPress that give us exactly what we need.
While it work great, but it might be hard for WordPress newbie to figure out how to change style of Contact Form 7 plugin.

If you like my Contact page, then you are on luck! just copy past my setting and you will have same as my Contact page.

• First download Contact Form 7 plugin
• Copy it in your WordPress Plugins folder and and activate it
• look for Contact Form 7 setting in admin area. and copy past below code;

Name: (Required)
[text*  your-name 50/]

Email:  (Required)
[email*  your-email 50/]

Website:
[text your-website 40/ "http://"]

Subject:
[text  your-subject 50/]

What is the answer:
[quiz quiz-whatis  12/ "2+2=?|4"]

Message (Required)
[textarea your-message 36x10 "Write message here."]

[submit class:form7submit "Send"]

• next look for stylesheet.css in contact form plugin folder and add below CSS code to it:

.wpcf7-form p{
font-family:cursive;
font-size:small;
text-align:left;

}
.wpcf7-form p input, .wpcf7-form p textarea{

font-size:larger;
background-color:#ddddff;
color:#000055;
border-left-color:#4283B9;
border-top-color :#4283B9;
border-bottom-color:#bbbbff;
border-right-color:#bbbbff;
padding:2px;
}

.form7submit  {
display: block;
width: 307px;
}

• Well done:)  Enjoy new contact page style same as mine!

If you still have any difficulty, Please let me know, I am here to help you.

Update: read my newer post on Easy Contact form 7 Guide and Customization and most wanted tips

You may get this error after trying to backup your mysql database using mysqldump command

warning: World-writable config file /etc/my.cnf is ignored

or sometime when yoy start  Xampp, you may see error like this:

Starting XAMPP for Linux …
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)…
XAMPP: Starting MySQL…
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD…
warning: World-writable config file /etc/my.cnf is ignored
warning: World-writable config file /etc/my.cnf is ignored
warning: World-writable config file /etc/my.cnf is ignored
XAMPP for Linux started.

This is  just a waring and can be ignored but here is the solution how to fix it

MySQL is deliberately ignoring your config file (my.cnf) as a safety precaution because the file can be over-written by a malicious user.

To see the file’s permissions, use the following command.To see the file’s permissions, use the following command.

ls -l /etc/my.cnf
in response, you will see:

-rw-r–r– 1 4998 Apr 2 2010 /etc/my.cnf

If the first part of the line looks like “-rw-rw-rw-” or “rwxrwxrwx”, the file’s permissions are “World-writable”.

To fix this problem, use the following command to change file’s permissions

chmod 644 /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf

Note: if you looking for a way to backup your Mysql database via ssh and mysqldump, then please read my previous post about how to backup your online website and clone or sync it to local website