October 28th in Wordpress by .

WordPress – Retrieve author/user details from Post ID

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 …

October 28th in Miscellaneous by .

WordPress – How to email user when post is published?

I have always wanted to send approval emails to my users when their post is published by editors or admins. I hated the using plugins for such small tasks, as i am already using so many plugins in my website.

Here is the code, which you need to paste in on …

October 28th in Wordpress by .

How to assign or remove user permissions in WordPress

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 …

October 18th in Wordpress by .

Published contributor posts cannot be deleted in WordPress!

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 …

September 19th in Wordpress by .

7 Useful WordPress plugins for Clickbank affiliates

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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, …

September 16th in Miscellaneous, PHP Scripts by .

Interview with Balakrishnan who blogs at corpocrat.com

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As a owner of Corpocrat.com, I was recently interviewed by SelfBlogger.com and i was really proud to share my struggles and experiences and i came a long long way to acheive my goals.  I answered on various topics including blogging, making money and career goals.  You can read my interview …

September 16th in Web Directories by .

20+ Best High Quality Web Directories to Submit your Website

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For over the years i have seen many web directories come and go. I have always used submitting my websites to web directories to effectively market and promote my websites. The main advantages of submitting your sites to directories are backlinks, fast google indexing, and good pagerank (PR).  PR was …

September 16th in Design by .

7 Free photo editors for Mac OSX!

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I have been struggling with editing photos recently and of course i am familiar with both iphoto and preview which comes preinstalled with every mac.  Nonethless i was always in search for one good free photo editing software to move one step further, from the perspective of web designer.  I …

September 16th in Internet by .

Disable Mac screenshots transparent shadows & setting JPEG format

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I have always loved taking screenshots in my mac. One thing that irked me is transparency in the screenshots and here is an easy way to disable that.

Observe the screenshot below with shadows..

Now, after removing shadows, notice the difference.

Here is how you do it.

The only way to do this is …

September 13th in Internet by .

5 Cool Web Browsers for Internet Surfing

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I have been using firefox and internet explorer all the time and never really looked back at other web browsers. Today i had a chance to look on on other alternative browsers and i was totally impressed especially with opera and chrome. Much to my surprise i really liked opera …