I have been long time a fan of photo slideshows rather using photo gallery because it conserves so much space.  It has really given me a lot of goose chase in search of some of the best available wordpress plugins to perform a photo slideshow  in  my blog. I decided to compile and document these hard to find plugins for wordpress developers like me.

Please note that most are free ones but few are only available under commercial by paying …

If you have a category tree in your site and often you might be needing to output both child and parents in your category page template (ex: category.php or archive.php). It can be tweaked to work like as breadcrumbs.

I will show you a very easy way on how to output child and parent categories with just one line of code the wordpress has. Further this code can be also placed outside the post loop.

echo(get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ‘ » ‘));
echo(get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, …

The paypal nightmare never seems to end for Indian paypal users.  You must have probably received the email by now, paypal notifying all indians of temporarily suspending ALL indian bank withdrawals andthe option is only available by check! This is the 2nd this is happening this year and indian freelancers are caught offguard.

The good news is indians can withdraw by check from Aug 1, 2010
The bad news is indians cannot withdraw electronically to bank accounts.

The most worrying fact is checks …

Most linux system administrators prefer to use commandline for most of the time and i have always struggled to use ftp commands to upload and download backup tar gz files. That is why i decided to post it here. I know how important it is to know these commands in crucial disaster situations and you may feel handy with these.

It is very simple and just follow below on how to upload and download files from FTP server to your local …

Has anybody noticed this issue with hdfc  netbanking?

i have been quietly noticing this for the past 2 months and i am unable to use hdfc netbanking to make bill payments online.

i regularly make bill payments online from my hdfc bank  account to airtel, tata indicom, vodafone and now all i see hdfc netbanking option missing or i get the error not supported this time.  I really dont know what the problem with the bank i just hope that it will …

The slideshow of NexGen Gallery plugin never really worked no matter how many times i followed the installation procedure. i downloaded and placed the imagerotator.swf in wp-content/uploads folder and the plugin kept on throwing this error with everything seems ok. i did use the latest version of the plugin and wordpress.

The path to imagerotator.swf is not defined, the slideshow will not work.
If you would like to use the JW Image Rotatator, please download the player here and upload it …

i have been struggling with querying posts using tags and have found no solutions whatsovever.  My idea is to query all wordpress posts having the same tags using query_posts and this just not working and giving weird results

query_posts(‘cat=-53&tag=best php scripts’);
query_posts(‘cat=-53&tag=best+php+scripts’);
query_posts(‘tag=best,php,scripts’);

and tried every combination and it seems to be  issue with wordpress 3+ version. Combining with categories also not working.

I have also tried using this code in the single.php page by retrieving tags and querying for posts.  It also doesnt work.

$tags …

I was working on a wordpress review project  and was so fascinated with the GD star rating plugin and i felt one real aspect missing.  When a rating or review was not given in the post, the default it shows as  zero.  i want those posts which are not reviewed should be shown as N/A instead of zero.  i found absolutely no way to change this  and there no option for this in the settings page.

The gd rating plugin is …

There has been a lot of talk on the Web regarding the Eclipse IDE which is regarded as the best editor and IDE for PHP and javascript development and other languages including.

i did give a try on the the new kit and later realized that the latest version of Java JRE is needed to run eclipse. Unfortunately, despite my machine having core2duo processor and 2GB ram i find the editor loading really slow and i find it difficult …

Tax season is eventually upon us and many persons earning online, including freelancers and bloggers are required to report and pay taxes to their home countries every year. This includes declaring income received with paypal. You will be asked for source of funds by bank or tax authorities in your country and the paypal transaction history will be a definite proof of source of income for your legitimate earnings.

If you are doing hundreds or thousands of transaction payments in your …