i recently updated to latest PHP 5 from PHP 4 and my wordpress blog was littered with these errors. I have seen these warnings before with PHP 5. Dont worry! The fix is very easy.

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbest/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 472

Deprecated: Assigning the return …

I have been so much fan of wordpress, but one thing wordpress lacks, is a backend user interface (login area for users).  If you are presenting this to your client, there are lot of tweaks to do, remove unwanted things in the user interface area.  The good news is with …

In this tutorial, i will how you how easy it is to login protect a page and then force users to login, to view the page.

1. Create a php file named “login-protect.php” in your current theme folder.

2. Place the following code in this file

<?php /*   Template Name:  Login Protect …

It is dead easy to set a custom field to your post, programmatically when the post is published. For example, whenever your post is published, you might want to add a custom field “submitted” and set its value to “1″, when a post is published.

Here is how you do it. …

I was working recently on custom project and i wanted wordpress to redirect to a custom payment page, when somebody submits a post for review.  It was such a simple step and quite disappointed that there was no wordpress plugin to do this job. If it was in php, i …

Very often in your projects, you want to pull out the author data, given a post id. It is very easy do it in wordpress.

It can be accomplished by the_author_meta() function or get_the_author_meta() function.You will need call this function in your theme or plugin, through a hook

the_author_meta() –> Outputs the …

In wordpress, it is very easy to add and remove permissions to your wordpress registered users. For example, you can set wordpress default user role to “contributor” which means those who register in your website, automatically become contributors and they will be able to post articles in your wordpress “pending …

User roles determine editing and deleting posts by your site users. The main difference between author role and contributor role is

Authors -> Create/Edit/Delete posts + Publish
Contributors -> Create/Edit/Delete before publishing  + Submit for review (cannot Publish) + Cannot Edit/Delete Published posts

The main difference is contributors, once posts are published,  posts …

If you are a clickbank affiliate, wanting to promote clickbank products, there are 2 ways you can promote clickbank products from your wordpress site. Either directly get the affiliate code and paste it on your wordpress website or use a wordpress plugin.

1. Hop Ad Builder

Use Hop Ad Builder from clickbank, …

Writing WordPress plugins  on your own can be difficult at first, unless you are experienced wordpress developer who perfectly understood the core functionality of wordpress. Fortunately wordpress plugin writing is easy to master once you have understood the basics.  I have compiled some the the youtube videos and i found …