Tag Archives for Wordpress

How to remove Wordpress Trackback Spam

I have recently found lot of trackback spam in one of my WordPress installation. Here is an article which will help you to remove trackback spam from SERP (Search engine Result Page).
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WordPress administrator forgot Admin Password – How to reset?

wordpress logoLost your WordPress Admin Password . You don’t have any other admin password also. Need to reset your forgotten WordPress Admin Password? Here i will tell you how you can reset your forgotten WordPress administrator password. Continue Reading »

How to Remove WordPress Top 10 Plugin’s Dashboard Pagination

For Those Who are still not familiar with Top 10 Plugin of Wordpress -

WordPress doesn’t count page views by default. Top 10 Plugin will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

Includes a sidebar widget to display the popular posts. And, all settings can be configured from within your WordPress Admin area itself! You can choose to disable tracking of author visits on their own posts.

The Plugin also comes with a Admin Dashboard widget which displays the daily and overall stats in Wordpress Dashboard. The admin widgets shows a pagination bellow. If you have lot of posts the pagination counts display gets long and nasty. Continue Reading »

How to edit or modify encrypted footer of Wordpress Template

I have recently came across a encrypted footer.php of a Wordpress Template File. Developers mostly doing this to keep their link in the website footer.  Here is how you can modify the wordpress footer template.

open the encrypted footer.php and add this line before the encrypted code. Continue Reading »

Archive Page Template Customization the_excerpt Tag

Recently I am redesigning a general Wordpress Archive Template. The Template file for archive category or tag pages is archive.php if tag.php is not present.

changed the

<?php the_content( $more_link_text, $strip_teaser, $more_file ); ?>

to this code

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

The display has become much more cleaner than before. Only The title and a excerpt of the main content is being displayed.

How to change Imagebrowser Template of Nextgen Gallery in Wordpress

To change the imagebrowser Template of Nextgen Gallery I have followed and did following steps.

in the /css/nggallery.css file find .pic class which is set to width: 100%. Comment the line out.

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.ngg-galleryoverview div.pic img
{
/*width: 100%;	*/
}

in the /css/nggallery.css file find .ngg-imagebrowser img which is set to width: 100%. Comment the line out.

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.ngg-imagebrowser img
{
border:1px solid #A9A9A9;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
/*width: 100%;*/
display:block !important;
padding:5px;
}

Now the change the template of the file you need to edit /show/imagebrowser.php. The first thing I have done is I got the Navigation links section up from bellow the picture. It is more accessible than the default design of one of the best image gallery plugin for wordpress.

How to change Wordpress Nextgen Gallery Title Separator

Browse through the lib directory. You will find a file name ‘rewrite.php’ . find this

$sep = ‘ &laquo; ‘;

Change the variable with some character you want. In my case i did this

$sep = ‘ – ‘;

Check the title Now.

WordPress 2.5 SECRET_KEY and SALT Cracking Vulnerability

SECRET_KEY is the new addition to wordpress Security which is introduced in the Wordpress 2.5. SECRET_KEY is used to secure Wordpress Cookies. But an attacker can use this Key to intrude the Wordpress system. In a recently found vulnerability discovered by xiam and published in Security Focus shows that an attacker can get into the system through this technique.
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Wordpress 2.5 SECRET_KEY

The New Wordpress 2.5 has intoduced a security feature for wordpress cookies called SECRET_KEY. It will make cookies secure against attacks where someone has hacked into your database via an SQL injection exploit. SECRET_KEY is defined in the wp-config-sample.php file like this :

// Change SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. You won’t have to remember it later,
// so make it long and complicated. You can visit http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/
// to get a secret key generated for you, or just make something up.
define(’SECRET_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

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Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest Wordpress Version provided by wordpress.org. The plugin is designed and maintained by Keith Dsouza of Tech Buzz. For your knowledge WPAU won a Wordpress Plugin Competition in the Past year organised by Weblog Tools Collection.
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