I have been banging my head for days to make  this working. No matter what i did only the default permalinks  worked and the custom or other options wasnt working and everytime i was getting page not found 404 error. I did use WAMP and Xampp  with wordpress 3.x to …

I have been searching for good wordpress ratings plugins so that i can use it in some of my review blogs. of all i really liked gd star ratings and of course it is free. Below you will find some of the plugins which i believe will come in handy …

I have been so much fan of innovatively designed wordpress themes and over the years i have seen so many themes and never caught my eyes.  The themes i have listed below are some the unique and well designed wordpress themes which can be deployed over various websites and blogs …

I have always considered using breadcrumbs in my website and never left a site without breadcrumbs, because its just not sought for navigation, but for SEO as well. Having breadcrumbs  always helps search engines to crawl inner pages of your blog, especially category and single post pages.  Keep in mind …

i have seem many wordpress pagination plugins and hardly a few i liked it.  i searched everywhere on the web for wordpress plugins  with attractive page navigation and i was able to find only a few. Anyways i am posting below,  so that it would be useful for wordpress developers.

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If you have sub folder in wordress or perhaps you want to restrict permalinks (rewrite rules) to the wp-admin folder.

It is very easy, all you have to do is create a .htaccess file with RewriteEngine off

RewriteEngine off

If you are using gallery to upload photos, you may want to find the …

Getting the category ID of inside of category.php or archive.php seems very easy, i struggled 3hrs to get this working.

I wanted to put up a custom query_posts() function inside category.php and the only way it works is

$cat = get_query_var(‘cat’)

You have to combine this with query_posts function

query_posts(‘cat=’.get_query_var(‘cat’) . ‘&posts_per_page=3′);

Amazingly simple isnt …

For many reasons to run a gallery or a slideshow you will need to know attachment ID of the photo or image you uploaded.

It is very easy to find out attachment id. Just click on picture > gallery > click on the show > then place your mouse above the …

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 …

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 …