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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.
10 Free and Best Typography WordPress Themes
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
How to Backup and Restore WordPress Database
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.
How to Create Meta Description Function and Meta Keyword Tags
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);
}?>">Free WordPress Theme – Elegant Grunge
“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.
How to Display the Total Number of Comments on Your Blog
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.
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