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Mar 20th, 2009 2 Comments

Drupal theme making

Making a custom Drupal theme is actually quite easy. A Drupal theme is just a few PHP files, a CSS file, and an info file. I prefer the PHPtemplate theme engine (the default one) but you have several choices. See the bottom of this post for a link to the official Drupal Theme Developer’s Guide [...]

Mar 18th, 2009 0 Comments

Seperate Trackback and comments

With all the WordPress themes available to WordPress users, it always surprises me how these incredible theme authors don’t take a few extra seconds to separate their theme’s trackback from the comments. It doesn’t look very professional and it can make it extremely difficult to follow a conversation in the comments. Separating your trackback and comments [...]

Mar 13th, 2009 2 Comments

Joomla – Award Winning CMS review

A web CMS is a content management system software used for managing content for the web. The software manages content (text, graphics, links, etc.) for distribution on a web server. Usually the software provides tools where users with little or no knowledge of programming languages and markup languages (such as HTML) can create and manage content [...]

Mar 7th, 2009 7 Comments

Some important tips after installing wordpress

In a few short years WordPress has become the first software bloggers turn to. There have been several software releases for WordPress, but the most recent WordPress 2.7 included enough changes that it is important for blog owners to understand the changes and how they will affect them. The following WordPress 2.7 tips will come [...]

Feb 1st, 2009 1 Comment

Add Gravtar Support to your themes

After a few different people requested Gravatar support in the comments for the popular Choice WordPress theme, I decided to look into it more carefully. I came across this great post by HackWordPress which gives you a small code snippet to add Gravatars to your comments loop. Since then, I’ve been adding Gravatar support [...]

Jan 18th, 2009 4 Comments

Wordpress theme control hacks

Dynamic Content to homepage If you want to include a specific file in your homepage you can use this code: <?php if ( is_home() ) { include (’yourfile.php’); } ?> where ‘yourfile.php’ is the file that you want to include in the homepage Use different post templates for different categories Lets say you have a video, product or author category [...]

Jan 4th, 2009 1 Comment

Ultimate Geshi plugin in Joomla

What is GeSHi? GeSHi stands for “Generic Syntax Highlighter”, and it is used to highlight code snippets in different web languages like PHP, HTML, and CSS. It also converts tags in those languages so that they will not render like regular tags. For example, if you want to share some HTML code, you have to use something [...]

Jan 4th, 2009 0 Comments

Choosing right host for joomla

There are a lot of things to consider when choosing a web host. Usually the first things we look at are price, storage, and bandwidth, but I would argue that storage and bandwidth are mostly irrelevant as criteria for choosing a host. Buying a hosting service because it offers a huge amount of storage and [...]

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