wp_list_categories() will add “View all posts filed under” in front of category name as title attribute. My clients asked me to remove those prefix because it looked funny

Here is a simple script to do it and keep your category title attribute clean without touching WordPress core file.
[php]
$categories = wp_list_categories(‘echo=0′);
$categories = preg_replace(‘/View all posts filed under /’,”,$categories);
echo $categories;
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That’s it. Of course you can add function arguments on wp_list_categories but don’t forget to set “echo=0″.

Since WordPress 2.6, we have a post revisions each time we edit a post. This feature maybe useful if you have more than one blog author or if you really want to keep track of your post revisions. If you think this feature is annoying, you can turn it off by adding the following code in wp-config.php.

[php]

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

[/php]

It will be better if you set this thing just after setting up your blog. If you add this code after you have several posts (that are creating post revisions), you can optionally delete those post revisions using this SQL query:

[sql]

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’
[/sql]

Of you course you can run this query from phpMyAdmin or any MySQL database manager.

I think WordPress should add this option on their next release, instead of hard-coded in wp-config.php.

I just moved my client’s website to another hosting. Everything is fine in the previous web hosting as well as in localhost, but it gave me a blank homepage. The weird thing is that all pages are accessible except home/index page.

Disabling plugins and change it to default theme still gave me a blank page, so I decided to send a ticket support. Just after it, I noticed that there is an index.html in the root folder. Deleting this file  solved my problem.

If you got a blank homepage in your wordpress site but can access other pages, then you should check any index file in your wordpress folder. Natively some servers will read index.html first rather than index.php.

Installing wordpress in localhost is an effective way for developing wordpress powered website. It saves time for not doing FTP just to test latest code update, but it will be a disaster if you forgot wordpress admin password and your system doesn’t have a mail transfer agent to deliver email.

Wordpress create a random admin password during its installation and you have to remember it (I never remember it, just copy and paste it) in order to login to wordpress dashboard. Wordpress will notify you to change the password once you are logged in.

If you suddenly forget the admin password, the easiest step is to use phpMyAdmin to create new password. I am using XAMPP so here are the steps to recover your wordpress password:

1. Login to phpMyAdmin (eg: http://localhost/phpmyadmin) and enter your database username and password
2. Point to your wordpress database and browse wordpress users table (tableprefix_users)
3. Just click the edit icon for selected user to open the edit form
4. Select MD5 function in user_pass field and enter new password for the user
5. Klik Go to update the field.

That’s all. Next time, better to keep your password memorable.

When developing WordPress powered website for my clients (mostly in remote sites), I have to make sure that they always get  the latest version of updated WordPress theme. Proxy server sometimes gives problem that is due to its cache on CSS files.

There are several alternative to solve this problem. Bypassing proxy server can be tricky but will not work if client is behind transparent proxy. Mark Jaquith did the following code and added it to the header.php

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/style.css?v=<?php echo filemtime(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/style.css’); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen, projection” />

If you prefer to use a plugin,  CSS Cache Buster is available to save your days.

Wordpress + Economics = WPNomics. But please do not expect much that this blog will talk about making money online.

I am so passionated in WordPress because of its simplicity and the “power” of course. I started to work with WordPress since year 2006, but it was in WordPress.com. My very first project for self hosting wordpress was a furniture directory for Indonesian exporter and less than 3 months this web sent me web development project.

Almost all of my clients are using wordpress now. It’s the reason why I choose WPNomics.com. WordPress web projects contributed alot it my economics aspect.

Here we go.. WPNomics.com.