Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan

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. 1. WP- Paginate http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/ 2.…

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 image,  you will see…

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…

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…

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 themes you need to…

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;…