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 …

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 …

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 …

Often many times, you might be searching for the wordpress code which checks  if the user logged in or not.  Its no brainer and amazingly simple!

There could be at many parts of your site (say in header.php) ,  you want to show only certain links when the user is already …

If you are curious about how to run a web directory, there are plenty of directory scripts available and certainly wordpress is worth considering. All you have to do is install a wordpress theme or a plugin to convert your wordpress blog to a powerful link directory.

These are the wordpress …

Custom fields often associated with blog post and are widely expoited by wordpress programmers and theme

designers to store various values. Here is a easy way to fetch the custom field value in wordpress.

Just remember that this will only work if placed within the wordpress loop.

<?php
$zip_code = get_post_meta($post->ID, “zipcode”, true);
echo $zip_code;
?>

Amazingly …

Time after time, i have been forgetting this wordpress. You will know how important it is to output a category name in index page or in the blog post page (single.php)

Here are the 2 easy ways to output the category name.

Dont forget that this code will only work, only within …

Looks like i have a real headache by using adman plugin with wordpress to display adsense ads.

With every new post i do, very often i tend to forget to tick off, disable ads in this page option that comes with adman, as a result my adsense ads were disabled automatically …

WordPress is not just a blogging platform and it is such a powerful CMS with unlimited capabilities, besides having a huge user base. Almost anything can be scripted with wordpress. You can extend wordpress either by means of plugin or by a theme.

In this tutorial, i will show you how …

I have been recently in search for wordpress plugins so that i could place my affiliate code on blog posts.

The following are some the best plugins i have seen and can come in handy for your affiliate campaigns.

WP-Affiliate for easy affiliate link masking.
GoCodes Plugin lets you create shortcut affiliate links.
Affiliate …