Every browser like FireFox or IE does searches on a default search engine set some where in its configuration. Changing this default search engine is a little bit tricky, but not anymore. Deepak, my friend, installed a chat software from RediffBol which also changed the default search engine as Rediff Search but he now wants to change it back to Google [my fav].

This is how you can get it done:

in the address bar of FireFox, type: “about:config”

In the box marked filter, type: “keyword.url”

Double click the value field and modify that value, by pasting:

“http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=”

Then save that by pressing “Ok”.

Now, you can use your address bar just as google search bar. Go nuts, since now you can search by entering the search terms in the address bar and pressing enter. This way you never need to visit www.google.com again!!!

If you view a single post of a blog, you will see the author information at the bottom. Here we will see that how we can display such author info in a wordpress blog. That info can be edited in the control panel under Users->Your Profile.

The author’s photo can also display the image using avtars:

<img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/mimbo2/images/<?php the_author_lastname(); ?>.jpg" alt="" />

The author’s name is called like this:

<?php the_author_posts_link('namefl'); ?>

The author’s bio is called like this:

<?php the_author_description(); ?>

The author’s email is called like this:

<a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email(); ?>" title="Email this author">Email this author</a>

That seems like a pretty good start for building your own template themes. Now it’s up to the client to hire some talented writers and hope for the best.

Displaying category specific posts in a wordpress blog is easy. Inside theme folder the you will find “index.php” and “sidebar.php” templates, you have to put a query_posts functions which refer to specific category ID numbers from your database. Example:

<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=4'); ?>

You will need to change them to reflect the ID numbers in your own database. They can be found in your control panel under Manage->Categories.

Result will be the recent posts from the category no.4

Yesterday, on wordpress development blog matt announced the launch of much awaited upgrade to WordPress after months of their hard work. As matt says “The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone.”

New customizable dashboard is “focused on the most relevant tasks”

New navigation in “new design” separates the navigation bar into two namely primary functions and secondary functions, thus, reduces the “number of navigation options in half”.

Some other life saving functions are like “multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting”. All these will reduce a lot of burden from self hosted bloggers.

If you make frequent backups and you’re interested in helping us out with development by testing the new code, download and install Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.5

As they say personally they can’t wait, i have to say that Blogger’s Paradise is now proudly powered by WordPress 2.5.

In comparison to the rapid-share while Files-upload lets you host files up to 1Gb, but what really impresses is the FTP support feature and you also gets a personal sub-domain like ‘yourname.files-upload.com’ which is a lot similar to the Rapidshare service.
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