Deny Direct Access to All

To deny permission to everyone but your own website pages, you need to write below piece of line in the .htaccess file.

deny from all

This will throw a permission denial message to the visitors who try to open any folder and files on your hosting server directly.

Deny Direct Access to an IP address

You can customize this piece of text to block particular IP addresses as well. To do so, change the above piece of text to,

allow from all

deny from 88.765.11.112

In above case, I am blocking IP address 88.765.11.112 from accessing any files and folders. Others are allowed to do so.

Permission Denied 403 for Restricted Folders

In case even your website’s pages are not able to access required folder and files, then you may try below piece of code. Remember to have few HTML files like 400.html, 401.html, 403.html, 404.html, 500.html etc. to throw perfect message i.e. 403 Permission denied.

Here is the piece of code,

Options +FollowSymLinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

Just move this into the .htaccess in the root folder of the site. That’s it.

Of course there are lot many other ways to block or restrict access to files and folders on the hosting server, but .htaccess is the simplest and effective way to do so.

How to Create .htaccess File

Open a notepad from Start menu in Windows PC. Write the above piece of text in that notepad and then save the file as .htaccess. Yes, you need to remove the .txt extension of the site to make that .htaccess. That’s it. You can upload the file to your hosting server’s root folder.

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Alright folks, here is how I reset the MySQL on WampServer.

Download ResetMysql application from this page. Then follow the below steps,

- Exit from the WampServer by clicking on “Exit” option in the system tray icon of WS.

- Go to C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.x.xx\data\mysql and copy three files mentioned below:

user.frm
user.myd
user.myi

- Now replace these 3 files with the files in the unzipped folder “ResetMysql” that you just downloaded

- In C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadminx.xx.x, find config.inc.php file and delete the password (if any) for root user. Root user password should be blank like this,

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] =’’;

- In the same file, you need to find the below code and cross check whether ‘config’ is in single quote

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘config’;

- Now restart the WampServer, and access phpMyAdmin.

You will see all the databases created in the phpMyAdmin. Now you can also see the “Root” user with all the access privileges.

In case you are not able to see all the privileges to “root”, close the browser and start that again. Or you can try opening phpMyAdmin on different browser as well. This issue is related with some cookies if you already browsed (with problem of MySQL) the phpMyAdmin on same browser.

This is how you can reset MySQL and have your deleted user, access level etc. back on track for WampServer.

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It has more than 20 styles or skins with flexible layout , more than 70 shortcodes support and 100+ theme options.

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Portfolio Page Example

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Other Features:-

1) Automatic Installation

2) 5+1 Homepage Sliders

3) 6 Custom Post Types

4) Unlimited Portfolios

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6) Multisite Support

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8)Google Api & cufon

9) Unlimited Sidebars

10) WP Native Thumb Resize

11) Menu Manager

12) Tour page and Pricing tab (if you sell something)

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While sharing any post to Facebook wall, Facebook spans your page’s html source code to find all the <img> tags and offers you the choice to choose one of them as the thumbnail image for the post, that best suits the title and the content of the post, to make the entry more engaging for your friends.

So if there is no image in the html source or if the images are not related to the post content (like twitter/facebook/RSS icons), then that is the problem for you while sharing. You definitely choose ‘No thumbnail’ option while sharing. Here is a very simple solution for the issue, I have included a solution for WordPress users as well as a very decent solution for Non-WordPress users.

For WordPress Users

Most of us now-a-days use a small thumbnail image on the front page which is pulled using the WordPress post featured image or thumbnail image for the post (WordPress 2.9 feature), though this image is not displayed in the actual post. We can use this image as the thumbnail image while sharing the article on Facebook. If there is no ‘Featured Image’ attached to the post, then we can specify a default image, which will be included while we choose the thumbnail for the post while sharing on Facebook, as the default image can be our blog or site’s brand logo, definitely better than having no choice other than the twitter or RSS icon.

For achieving this, in your active theme’s functions.php (On your WP Dashboard go to –>Appearance –> Editor –> On the right side you would find ‘Theme Functions’ –> Click open to edit it), place the below code before the closing php tag (?>):-

<br />
function insert_image_src_rel_in_head() {<br />
	global $post;<br />
	if ( !is_singular()) //if it is not a post or a page<br />
		return;<br />
	if(!has_post_thumbnail( $post-&gt;ID )) { //the post does not have featured image, use a default image<br />
		$default_image=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot;; //replace this with a default image on your server or an image in your media library<br />
		echo '&lt;meta property=&quot;og:image&quot; content=&quot;' . $default_image . '&quot;/&gt;';<br />
	}<br />
	else{<br />
		$thumbnail_src = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post-&gt;ID ), 'medium' );<br />
		echo '&lt;meta property=&quot;og:image&quot; content=&quot;' . esc_attr( $thumbnail_src[0] ) . '&quot;/&gt;';<br />
	}<br />
	echo &quot;\n&quot;;<br />
}<br />
add_action( 'wp_head', 'insert_image_src_rel_in_head', 5 );</p>
<p>

Note: Remember to replace the url for default image (http://example.com/image.jpg) by the actual default image specific for your site. This can be the image you have uploaded to your server or to the Media Library.

What this code will do:-

It will add a new meta tag to your post/page header representing the thumbnail image which could be used while sharing

1) This code will give you an option of the post featured image (if it exists) as a thumbnail image while sharing

2) If no featured image is found, you have a default image to choose from as a thumbnail while sharing the entry on Facebook

If there are other images attached to the post, they would also be shown while you choose the thumbnail at the time of sharing.

WordPress Plugin

For those who do not want or are not very sure about changing the Theme Functions (functions.php) file, there is a very simple plugin on the WordPress Plugin Directory named  Add image_src Meta Tag which does the same thing. Just it does not have the “default image” setting feature. You can install and use this plugin as well, but this plugin did not work on Chrome and Firefox for me.

For Non-WordPress Users

You can definitely set the default image representing your site’s logo by putting the below code in your web pages head section (after <head> and before the head section close i.e. </head>)

<br />
&lt;meta property=&quot;og:image&quot; content=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot;/&gt;<br />

Note: Remember to replace the url for default image (http://example.com/image.jpg) by the actual default image specific for your site. This should be the image you have uploaded to your server.

BEWARE: On my blogs, the .png images set as the default image and featured image did not work for the thumbnail extraction. So I suggest you to adhere to .jpg images for definite success!!

Thus, by using the default image, at least you get some good option specific to your site’s niche or logo to use as a thumbnail image while sharing, if there is no image related to the content on the page which is to be shared.

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There is no need that you set a post thumbnail or a featured image (WordPress 3.0 nomenclature) for each and every post to get it in the RSS for that article. The plugin will scan the post and pull a thumbnail as follows:-

1. Looks for an image by custom field (default custom field is “thumbnail”).
2. If no image is added by custom field, check for a post image (WordPresss 2.9+ feature).
3. If no image is found, it grabs an image attached to your post.
4. If no image is attached, it can extract an image from your post content.
5. If no image is found at this point, it will default to an image you set.

As well you can specify any custom size for the image fetched.

Two steps to get it working

Step 1: Download the WordPress Plugin “Get the Image” from WordPress Plugin Directory and activate it. It is a very powerful wordpress plugin, which do not load any CSS or javascript in your page header. It is just a new template tag which enhances the WordPress thumbnail image fetching.

Step 2: Include this small piece of code in your theme’s functions.php file. You can edit this file thru your WordPress Theme Editor. Go to Dashboard—>Appearance—>Editor and select “Theme Functions” from the right hand Templates list. Include the below code before the closing php tag (?>), if this tag is not present at the end, just put the code at the end.

function display_post_thumbnail_in_rss($rss_content) {
    global $post;
    if ( function_exists( 'get_the_image' ) ) {
        $rss_content= '<div style="float : left;margin-right:10px;">'.get_the_image(array( 'default_image' => '', ‘image_scan’ => true,  'width' => '150', 'echo' => false ) ). '</div>'.$rss_content;
    }
    return $rss_content;
}
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'display_post_thumbnail_in_rss');

add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'display_post_thumbnail_in_rss');

In the above code, you can put the url of a standard/default image which will be shown in the RSS, if there is no custom field or thumbnail or image found attached to the post. As you can see in the code, you can specify the width of the image. If you do not specify the height, it will take the height as proportional to width (this is good, I must say!), but  yes, you can definitely specify the height separately. Also, you can specify any CSS to the image, yeah, that would be an inline CSS.

After finishing the above two steps, just refresh your blog’s RSS feed by publishing a test post or a regular post. And you can see the thumbnail images floating to the left side of the content in the reader, may be you can check in Google reader or whatever reader of your choice. Doesn’t that look awesome, tell me??

This is useful when you show excerpts in your blog’s RSS feed rather than complete content. But still those of you who keep complete content in RSS, can as well use this feature to display a very small image at the start of the article in RSS, so that the feed looks attractive and engaging.

In my blog’s feed screenshot, attached above, I am using Google Chrome browser with RSS Subscription Google Chrome Extension to read the RSS.

If you got it working, do share it with all our readers thru the comments section below.

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The growing popularity of WordPress as a blog as well as a CMS platform is now well known. And to add a social networking features to a WordPress site, Buddypress is a amazing platform (a plugin for implementation). Buddypress 1.2 and above can be integrated with WordPress MU as well as normal WordPress. As well, Ning, a social networking platform, has shut down all its free networks, so it is a great opportunity for the web community to try Buddypress. Buddypress is growing like a wave and a lot many new developers are chipping in contributing to buddypress plugin development adding features to buddypress as well as designing and coding themes, giving a perfect look to your buddypress site.

I am listing below some of the amazing free buddypress themes that are available and which are said to be working on the latest release of Buddypress i.e. Buddypress 1.2 and above. If you are a theme developer and developed some cool theme/s on buddypress, please submit it to us thru our contact form.

Free Buddypress Themes

1. Detox Buddypress Theme

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2. Speed Buddypress Theme

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3. Soltitude Buddypress Theme

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4. Bruce Buddypress Theme

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5. Ines Buddypress Theme

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6. New Yorker Buddypress Theme

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7. Spyker Buddypress Theme

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8. Blogcaster Buddypress Theme

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9. Malleable Buddypress Theme

Malleable is a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework.

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10. Bleeding Buddypress Theme (Lightly buddy)

(This development on this theme for buddypress 1.2 looks to be in progress at the time this article is being written, so before downloading, please check the changelog.)

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11. Jet Green Buddypress Theme

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12. BP Nicey Buddypress Theme

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13. Cosmic Buddy Buddypress Theme

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14. Buddymatic Buddypress Theme Framework

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15. Randy Candy Buddypress Theme

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16. Unplugged Buddypress Theme

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Function to get recent posts from specific blog:

Put the below function in your active theme’s functions.php

function get_recent_blogposts_wpmu($blog_id,$show){
	wp_reset_query();
	switch_to_blog($blog_id);
	global $post;?>
	<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts='.$show.'&order=DSC');
	while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
	    $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
	    <li class="post_link"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a> </li>
        <div style="float:left;margin:5px 0 0 10px;">
        <script type="text/javascript">
        tweetmeme_url = '<?php the_permalink(); ?>';
        tweetmeme_source = 'blogern';
        tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';
        tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
        </script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script>
        </div>
        <div style="clear:left;"></div>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php restore_current_blog();
}

How to use this function/place a call this function

In your template file like page.php or index.php (wherever you need) you can use the below template tag now:

get_recent_blogposts_wpmu('4','8');

This will get 8 posts from blog_id ’4′. The above function will show the tweetmeme button, the permalinks and title  for each of the eight recent  posts on that particular blog on WPMU site.

You can extend this function

You can add any WordPress template tag that can be added in normal WordPress Loop in this custom loop created under this function. For example, along with the permalink with title, you want the excerpt for the pulled posts, you can use the_excerpt template tag. You can modify the looks by using CSS classes. This is just a basic function for WordPress MU, you can use it in your own innumerable ways.

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Problem: Getting error message “WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed!” at the bottom of the page source of the site.

Solution: Go to your FTP account and download the file advanced-cache.php from wp-content. If you mahe moved your site from one server to another then you will have to change the path of the file wp-cache-phase1.php in the advanced-cache.php file. Open the downloaded file and there you can see two paths provided in the PHP file. Change those paths to the correct one on your server and then upload the file. You are done. Now you can reload the page and check he page source. There at the bottom of the page source, you can see WP Super Cache ran successfully.

Problem: WP Super Cache admin panel not opening properly or throwing error that everything is read only.

Solution: To let the WP Super Cache work properly, you will have to change the file permission of certain folders and files to 777. Here is the list of files and folders for which you need to change the file permission:

• wp-content ==> 777
• wp-content/cache ==> 777
• wp-content/wp-cache-config.php ==> 777

Problem: Super Cache compression not working

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WPtouch is a plugin for wordpress which can easily installed on your wordpress setup and show an optimized version of your site on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android phones with touch facility. Site will appear properly optimized on BlackBerry Curve as well using Opera Mini. Here is the screenshot of a site using WPtouch.

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