What will you do if wordpress plugin broken your wordpress blog? I believe that most people have experienced this problem before, and how you overcome your problem? I remember when my wordpress blog was unable displayed properly after installed particular wordpress plugin, so I deleted all the wordpress files, wordpress themes, wordpress plugins, and then I upload all the files again. Anyway, it is work fine finally.

If you can’t display your wordpress blog after installed particular wordpress plugin, you can follow the below steps to solve this problem.

1. De-active the Plugin
Try to de-active the wordpress plugin that you have installed just now.

2. Rename the Plugin via FTP
If it is crash by admin area and caused you can’t de-active the plugins, then you can rename the plugins via FTP.

3. Delete the Plugin via FTP
If simply renaming the plugin was not enough, try to delete it completely.

4. De-activate all the plugins via PHPMyAdmin
Some plugins will alter tables in your WordPress database when you activate them. As a result your blog might keep crashing even after you delete the plugins via FTP.

If that is the case, you will need to log into cPanel, and open the PHPMyAdmin interface. Then select the WordPress database, and browse inside the “wp-options” table. Look for the “active_plugins” column, and edit it. Inside the “options_value” field you will find something like this:

a:31:{i:0;s:13:"AddMySite.php";i:1;s:19:"akismet/akismet.php";
i:2;s:23:"all_in_one_seo_pack.php";i:3;s:16:"authenticate.php";
i:4;s:28:"breadcrumb-navigation-xt.php";i:5;s:18:
"codeautoescape.php";i:6;s:37:

These lines represent the active plugins in your blog. Delete them all and save. This should automatically de-activate every plugin. Now check if your blog is live again, and if the admin area is working. They should be.

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WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet from Woorkup contains a practical reference guide to WordPress 2.8, it is very useful for wordpress users and designers, I like it a lot. This WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet has 5 pages in total, contains the full reference guide to WP Template Tags with detailed descriptions and sample code. It is free to download.

Download WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet

Typography theme is one of my favorite wordpress themes. Although it may looks simple design but it can be beautiful, creative, and colorful. Below are about 10 different typography wordpress themes that you might like.

1. Typography Theme – consists of a fixed two column outfit with special news slider built into the sidebar: widgetized sidebar with typical WordPress action like calendar, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled, native WP tag system, flickr is enabled in its own bar.

2. Fleur – plain white layout with custom js built in: another new layout for the frontpage of a WordPress powered site.

3. NeoClassical – a simple and elegant template system that offers classical styling, rich typography, and huge random header images.

4. CopyBllogger – able to modify colors, fonts, and even the tiniest details by utilizing the custom stylesheet solution that is included with the theme download.

5. Cutline – able to modify colors, fonts, and even the tiniest details by utilizing the custom stylesheet solution that is included with the theme download.

6. Neutica – is a lightweight, two (five?) column, widgetized, WordPress theme designed completely with CSS, sans image graphics.

7. Wu Wei – reated with clean, modern, minimalism in mind. Information is presented in a logical manner, without any superfluous elements getting in the way.

8. UpStart Blogger – the design was never intended to be released publicly because there’s too much hard code in the theme files. This theme is NOT for beginners or the faint of heart.

9. Clear Cut – is a highly configurable WordPress theme for artful or portfolio sites with an unusual and unique layout.

10. Design Magz

Since Twitter became popular, many bloggers like to display recent twitter tweets on their website or blog. To display most recent twitter tweets, simply copy and paste the following code to your sidebar.php file.

<?php
// Your twitter username.
$username = "TwitterUsername";
// Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet.
// (HTML is OK, but be sure to escape quotes with backslashes: for example href=\"link.html\")
$prefix = "";
// Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.)
$suffix = "";
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1";
function parse_feed($feed) {
$stepOne = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
$stepTwo = explode("</content>", $stepOne[1]);
$tweet = $stepTwo[0];
$tweet = str_replace(”&lt;”, “<”, $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(”&gt;”, “>”, $tweet);
return $tweet;
}
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>

Thanks the awesome code from WP Hacks.

Please keep in mind that you need to backup your wordpress database periodically to prevent your data lose in case of bad plugin installation or an attack by hacker. So do you know how to backup and restore your wordpress database? If you don’t, let me show you how.

DISCLAIMER: I will not going to hold responsible in any way should you encounter problems like loss of database and entire blog/website along the way. It worked excellently well for me.

How to Backup Your WordPress Database

1. Download and install WordPress Database Plugin and active this plugin.

2. In your wordpress dashboard, go to Tools > Backup

3. Under Backup Options, select “Download to your computer” and click on “Backup Now” button.

How to Restore Your WordPress Database

1. Log into your FTP account and delete everything in the /wp-content/cache directory.

2. Log into PHP MyAdmin and select your wordpress database.

3. A list of all of the tables contained in the database will be shown. Select all the tables and select the Drop option to delete them permanently.

4. After wordpress database is empty, it is time to upload your database by clicking Import tab.

5. Locate of the text file and then click “Go” button to import your wordpress database.

If you want to create meta description function and meta keyword tags for your wordpress themes, open header.php file and then copy and paste the following code within <head> and </head>.

<meta name="description" content="
<?php if ( (is_home()) || (is_front_page()) ) {
echo ('Your main description goes here');
} elseif(is_category()) {
echo category_description();
} elseif(is_tag()) {
echo '-tag archive page for this blog' . single_tag_title();
} elseif(is_month()) {
echo 'archive page for this blog' . the_time('F, Y');
} else {
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Metadescription", true);
}?>">

Thanks the original function from Malcolm Coles.

“Elegant Grunge” is an unwashed yet crisp WordPress theme inspired by wefunction.com. This wordpress theme looks neat and simple yet has sophisticated design, it is one of my favorite free wordpress theme. Below is the features of Elegant Grunge wordpress theme:-

• Automatic surrounding of all images with a frame packed with eye-candy that makes images really pop out.
• A ‘photoblog’ tag page that displays entries in a photoblog style.
• A widget to display thumbnails from latest/random photoblog entries.
• Very configurable sidebar: Choose from no sidebar, a right sidebar, or two right sidebars
• The option to select a custom image as the header
• A custom page template that allows complete customisation of the sidebar: Supply a list of tags to automatically display related posts, and specify any text/html to be displayed.
• Per-page and per-post configuration to turn on and off automatic image framing, among other things, and a global configuration interface – turn on/off the RSS link, set your own copyright message, or add your own extra header content – like adding a rel=alternate link to your Twitter feed.
• A ‘feature’ footer that you can add widgets to.

Who don’t like to have comments on your blog? If your blog has many comments, it can be say that your blogs is popular, at least people like to interact with you to ask question and share information with you. If you really proud with your total number of comments on your blog, and want to show off to visitors.

To display the total number of comments on your blog, simple add the following code to your wordpress files.

<?php
$numcomms = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = '1'");
if (0 < $numcomms) $numcomms = number_format($numcomms);
echo "There's ".$numcomms." total comments on my blog";
?>

Special thanks to PHP Magic Book for this awesome code.

Although CopyBlogger theme looks simple design, but it’s seem like a basic framework of wordpress theme. You can modify colors, fonts, and even the tiniest details by utilizing the custom stylesheet solution that is included with the theme download. For those people who like simple theme design for wordpress, perhaps CopyBlogger is the right choice for you.

Rockstar theme is designed and used by Adii quite some times ago and now he is decided to give it free for download. Rockstar theme is a great theme which is built on very popular backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options; integrated banner ad management; widgetized sidebar, with some Rockstar-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar; and 6 different colour schemes to choose from.