How To Make Your Theme Compatible to WordPress 3.0

Posted by Abhishek Bhardwaj on June 22nd, 2010
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WordPress 3.0 released last week with lots of new user-friendly features but most blogs/websites using WordPress are facing a unique problem. The problem being the incompatibility of current WordPress themes to the latest WordPress package which has been named ‘Thelonious’ this time. To overcome this problem there have been a few posts around with some of them getting lots of hits across the internet. To accommodate all the new features, your theme needs to undergo some changes. Today, I’ll be introducing the way I used to make my theme compatible to WordPress 3.0. So let’s get started!

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How to make an elegant Favicon for your website in 2 minutes

Posted by Abhishek Bhardwaj on May 9th, 2010
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In this Photoshop quick-tip you’ll learn to make a good-looking & a professional Favicon in less than two minutes. I’ll be showing you the way I made the current Gravatar & Favicon for TutorialsWalk. So let’s get started without wasting anytime!

NOTE: For this tutorial, I would be using Adobe Photoshop CS4

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How to search Twitter using PHP ?

Posted by Abhishek Bhardwaj on May 8th, 2010
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Since Twitter came to existence there have been many attempts to clone the micro-blogging giant but twitter seems to be unmatchable! The main reason of its success is its API which lets a developer do anything. Commonly PHP/MYSQL is used to use the API offered by twitter. With the Twitter API you can update your Twitter statuses remotely, search the latest tweets for a keyword, grab someone’s or your latest Tweets and many other innumerable things. But today, you’ll learn to implement the simple search API to search the tweets for a specific keyword remotely (from another website or host) using PHP. So lets get started!

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How to change the default “Admin” Username in WordPress

Posted by Abhishek Bhardwaj on April 17th, 2010
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We all know that WordPress is the most commonly used blogging platform as it offers an unlimited number of features and is free. The only big disadvantage that it possess is the default username that it automatically chooses for administrators while installation. From the security point of view, it is not recommended to keep the administrator username as “admin”. However, WordPress 3.0 (coming up in a few days) solves this problem, but this tutorial might still be helpful to those who use the older version of WordPress. There are a couple of ways which can be used to change the “admin” username.

NOTE: I’ll be using the WordPress installation on my localhost for this tutorial.

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Part 1: An introduction to .htaccess files

Posted by Abhishek Bhardwaj on April 10th, 2010
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After completing this tutorial series you will be completely able to understand, make and edit the .htaccess files. So, lets get started without wasting time.

What are .htaccess files?

.htaccess is a configuration file found in most web servers (most commonly Apache) that contains “server directives” (commands known by the server) that tell the server how to behave. In other words, it directs the web-server. It establishes a protocol for communication between a website and a server which is responsible for controlling the files that should be displayed on your computer when you type a URL address into a browser. The original purpose of .htaccess was to allow per-directory access control.

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