Recently we upgraded Goelji.com to WordPress MU 2.7. And, along came some

In WordPressMU 2.7 there is a new admin bar. It has settings so users can see it on the admin panel side if they are logged in, and a wonky bit to switch between blogs that may have a few bugs.

For any reason if you don’t want it then here’s how to disable it.

Go to wp-config.php (you will get it where you installed WordPress MU). Edit it.
Find the following lines in wp-config.php

// Uncomment to disable the site admin bar
//define( ‘NOADMINBAR’, 1 );

In a freshly installed copy of WPMU 2.7, you’ll find these lines in wp-config.php when WPMU is up and running.
In case of upgraded WPMU 2.7, check the config-sample.php and make sure you copy these lines into your existing wp-config file.

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