PurabTech is technical blog for Programmer and Coders
Author: Purab
I am Purab from India, Software development is my profession and teaching is my passion.
Programmers blog dedicated to the JAVA, Python, PHP, DevOps and Opensource Frameworks.
Purab's Github Repo
Youtube Chanel Video Tutorials
Connect to on LinkedIn
Many times we look for best and cheap hosting service for wordpress. I tried so many hosting services for hosting multiple wordpress website. Whenever you are choosing the cheap hosting we need to take care about quality also. Many hosting providers gives the cheap wordpress hosting but they are not provide the hosting support.
I personally used following services. All hosting services are nice with limited traffic. Now I am using VPS for hosting my site.
cheap hosting for wordpress blogs and sites
Here I will tell you about specially where to host the wordpress sites. First you have analyze the your website category and traffic of website. How much traffic you are targeting for your site. What is actual traffic of your website.
As compare to other hosting providers mochahost is really cheaper. I did not used this service. For wordpress website mochahost is also good. But many people had not good experience with mochahost. So I recommend not to use this hosting.
Blue host is most recommended hosting service for wordpress sites. I used the Bluehost for last three years and I did not find any issues with my sites. In very cheap rate they provide the best features and service.
One .com hosting service is cheaper and stable. I used this service for one year. I did not find any major issues with this hosting provider. They have servers located in latherland. There service is good. support is very nice. For normal traffic wordpress website this hosting is really nice.
Go daddy is not cheaper but as per service and stability godaddy is good. I recommend to register your domain with godaddy. I have experience with godaddy with last 9 years. They are good. But support is not good as they said. Website speed will little slower then other service providers. For wordpress hosting godaddy is good.
Hostmonster is having really good features and for big wordpress blogs and sites Host Monster is really good option. If you want to host multiple sites in one account then go for this Hosting service. I am using this hosting service and I did not find any issue.
This hosting is cheap for unlimited domain hosting. For wordpress this hosting is quite ok but not really best. But lower traffic website this hosting is good. WebHostingPad provides a fast, reliable and comprehensive service that you will be completely satisfied with.
If you have any suggestions about hosting providers who are cheaper and good for wordpress hosting. Please write a comments here.
We have given news and details about First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla. We have given features and their uses. Screen shot and epic.The browser has been created by a team of Indian engineers on the opensource Mozilla platform, it said in a statement.
First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla
First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla
Epic Browser is looking as follows:
epic browser
“Epic provides a uniquely Indian browsing experience. Epic’s India sidebar supports Indian content by providing users access to the latest national and regional news from popular publications, live television channels, videos, stock quotes, live cricket scores, top music albums, and local events,” it said.
Epic browser has following features:
• An inbuilt anti-virus, powered by ESET, whose NOD 32 product is very popular the world over
• India centric with support for 12 different Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu and Punjabi
• Indic app allows for typing in these Indian languages
• More than 1500 themes ranging from freedom fighters to film stars to represent the unity in diversity of the country
• A word processor to create or edit documents
• India specific news from popular publications
• Social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter on the sidebar, apart from YouTube( watchable in a pop-up window), Gmail and Yahoo
• Other useful sidebar widgets include Travel, Stocks, Maps, and Jobs
• File backup and My Computer utilities
Users can choose from 1500+ customised Indian themes and wallpapers ranging from freedom fighters to famous Bollywood and regional film stars. Writing in Indian languages is supported throughout Epic. Users can instantly write in Indian languages on any webpage or in Write, Epic’s free built-in word processor. Twelve Indian languages are currently supported, the statement said.
Free antivirus scanning and healing is built into Epic, while another security measure warns users when they’re about to visit potentially dangerous websites.
We written about, disadvantages of social networking in the workplace, Social networking over laptops at the workplace increased by 14 per cent in Germany, while it jumped by 10 per cent in the US.
In 2010, 29 per cent of laptop users versus 18 per cent of desktop users surveyed said they frequented these sites at work.
disadvantages of social networking in the workplace
disadvantages of social networking in the workplace
For all the countries surveyed this year, laptop users who can connect to the Internet outside of the company network are more likely to share confidential information via instant messenger, web mail and social media applications than those who are always connected to a company’s network.
The percentage of employees visiting social networking sites at the workplace globally rose to 24 per cent this year from just 18 per cent in 2008, even as more companies are restricting access to such websites, a survey said.
According to a survey by global Internet content security provider Trend Micro, employees are finding ways around security roadblocks to make social networking an integral part of office-life around the world.
Social networking at workplaces globally has “steadily risen” to 24 per cent in 2010 from 19 per cent in 2008, the survey of over 1,600 full-time workers at various firms in the US, UK, Germany and Japan, revealed.
The largest increase in social networking over corporate Internet connections during the last two years was among employees in Germany, which saw a more than 10 per cent jump, and the UK, with a six per cent rise.
The survey also found that laptop users are much more likely than desktop users to visit social networking sites.
disadvantages of social networking in the workplace
Globally, social networking usage via laptops went up by eight per cent from 2008 to 2010, the report stated.
Photo Gallery is best way to showcase your images. many plugins gives features of animated gallery. collection of free wordPress image gallery plugins.
Photo Gallery, picture gallery, or slideshow are the best way to showcase your images/photos to your readers. There are a lot of different methods to create them, and the alternative you’re most likely to be using Flash or JavaScript. Now Jquery slider plugins are very popular these days. There are many wordperss image gallery plugins which gives you really great features of animated gallery. Here is nice collection of wordpress gallery plugins.
Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
Below is the most downloaded image gallery plugins that we have chosen directly from the wordpress plugin directory. To make it even easier for you to choose, I also added live demo link under every image plugin! All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new plugin that will be practical for your own work.
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, and one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time, with over 7.5 million downloads.
It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.
Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Javascript libraries supported are: None, YUI, Prototype, jQuery and MooTools. Prototype and jQuery are used from the Javascript libraries included with WordPress, YUI is loaded from Yahoo APIs and Mootools is loaded from Google APIs.
This plugin can also be used as a drop in lightbox replacement, without requiring you to edit posts already using lightbox.
By default this plugin will use Shadowbox for all image links, movie links, audio links and YouTube/Google Video links including those generated by the
Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
shortcode.
Shadowbox is licensed under the terms of the Shadowbox.js License. This license grants personal, non-commercial users the right to use Shadowbox without paying a fee. It also provides an option for users who wish to use Shadowbox for commercial purposes. You are encouraged to review the terms of the license before using Shadowbox. If you would like to use Shadowbox for commercial purposes, you can purchase a license from http://www.shadowbox-js.com/.
Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows, videos and content all in an overlay.
Lightbox Plus ColorBox implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus ColorBox for WordPress implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus ColorBox permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page. Lightbox is able to add a lightbox to WordPress gallery images, display simple slide shows, video, forms and external content in overlays. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image or video being viewed. Lightbox Plus ColorBox captures the image title for display in the overlay.
Lightbox Plus ColorBox uses WordPress’ built in jQuery library. Lightbox Plus ColorBox also uses the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser helper class to navigate page content for inserting the Lightbox attibutes into elements.
This plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.
If you would prefer the prior Lightbox to Colorbox, you need to get the script from the setting page.
The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.
As the name shows, this is just WordPress’s version of the jQuery Lightbox Plugin written by balupton, working perfectly with WordPress 2.2 or up, and fully compatible with K2
Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller
(10KB) and faster.
Shutter Reloaded is an image viewer for your website that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. but is under 10KB in size and does not require any external libraries. It has many features: resizing large images if the window is too small to display them with option to show the full size image, combining images in sets, redrawing the window after resizing, pre-loading of neighbour images for faster display and very good browser compatibility.
This plugin offers customization of the colour and opacity settings for the background and colour for the caption text, buttons text and the menu background.
There are options to enable it for all links pointing to an image on your site (with option to exclude some pages), or just on selected pages. It can be enabled only for image links with CSS with option to create a single set or multiple sets for each page.
The plugin can also “auto-make” image sets for each Post, so when several posts are displayed on the “Home” page, links to images on each post will be in a separate set. See the built-in help for more information.
Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. Additional configuration optional.
You can easely customize almost anything you can think about fancybox: the border, margin width and color, zoom speed, animation type, close button position, overlay color and opacity and even more advanced option like several options to group images into galleries, and more…
By default, the plugin will use jQuery to apply FancyBox to ANY thumbnails that link directly to an image. This includes posts, the sidebar, etc, so you can activate it and it will be applied automatically.
FlippingBook WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.
Do you need to show your photos or publication to the best advantage and post them in a photo gallery speedy manner, don’t you? You need to make a bright and memorable presentation, portfolio or image gallery?
Convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.
What is YAPB / What can you expect?
A non invasive WordPress-plugin that converts wp into a easy useable photoblog system
Easy image upload – All wordpress post-features can be used
On the fly thumbnail generation – Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled by the theme.
EXIF data processing and output
Self-learning EXIF filter – Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
Full i18n-Support through gnutext mo/po files
YAPB Plugin Infrastructure for extended functionality
Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.
Out of the box configurable “latest images” sidebar widget
You’ll get a photoblog system based on wordpress – Decide if you want to post a normal WordPress article or a photoblog entry. Be free to use all available extensions / plugins of the WordPress platform 😉
Be the owner of your own photos on your own webhost
The WP-SimpleViewer plugin allows you to easily create SimpleViewer galleries with WordPress. SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. Images and captions can be loaded from the WordPress Media Library or from Flickr.
Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs.
Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation, comments on images, and a slide show.
Create a photo gallery from your existing photo directories.
If you are new to Lazyest Gallery, please consider Eazyest Gallery. Eazyest Gallery is the successor to Lazyest Gallery and is far better integrated with WordPress, and compatible with popular plugins.
This gallery basically needs just two settings: Your image directory and your gallery page. Lazyest Gallery automatically creates a photo gallery with folders, sub folders, thumbnail pages and slide shows.
If you want more, the gallery offers a multitude of options by featuring a smart back end management site. You can sort photos through folders and add captions, comments and descriptions with minimal effort. If you are tired of uploading photos through the WordPress server, this plug-in will make it a breeze with their FTP auto-indexing integration.
This plugin allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams. The plugin is relatively easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has support for an image cache located on your server.
Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.
This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided which you can customize to 100% match the look and feel of your own site.
The plugin is customizable in a number of different ways. There are options to allow you to hook it up with a number of different Lightbox-style popup overlay display libraries. Third party commenting services such as Disqus are also supported, allowing your visitors to comment on your photos without hopping over to Flickr.com. A simple Flickr widget is also included to let you easily include your photos into your blog’s sidebar.
On the backend, this plugin will add a new Flickr icon to your WordPress edit screen which will allow you to easily insert your Flickr photos and albums into your blog posts with just a couple clicks. You can either have your inserted photos link back to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your Flickr.com photo page.
Quickly and easily add Flickr galleries, photos, and even custom search results into your WordPress pages and posts.
Using the “shortcodes” system in WordPress 2.5 and up, this plugin will allow you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your WordPress pages and posts.
Features include:
A quick gallery of your recent photos, photosets and most popular photos.
Easy database caching (just click a checkbox)
Displays the photos from one photoset
Displays all of a user’s photos with given tags
Displays the results of a custom search
Inserts a single photo into your content
Embeds Flickr’s flash movie player for videos
Authenticate to display your private photos
Lightbox script makes it easy to browse photos without leaving the page
Plugin API to let sites configure the tabs in their gallery
View photosets in the gallery mode without leaving the page
Lightboxes are now generated for every gallery mode
WordPress MU Support
Pagination in galleries
All images smaller than “medium” will load in the lightbox effect (if enabled) when the user clicks on them.
Add a “Collections” tab to the default gallery
Select which tabs the gallery displays
Set the lightbox to display larger than “medium” photos if the user’s browser window is large enough.
Easier “Web” based authentication to the Flickr API.
New: Show the photo’s description inside the lightbox alongside the larger photos.
This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to WordPress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images. Additionally, images that are resized in the post editor are automatically resampled to the requested size using bilinear filtering when a post is saved, which improves the perceived image quality while reducing the amount of data transferred at the same time.
Please note that WordPress versions 2.9 and newer are not supported!
When the first version of Scissors was published in October 2008 it was available only in English and German. Since then translations into new languages have been contributed by the following kind individuals. Thank you for your time and initiative!
Scissors enhances WordPress’ handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality.
For WordPress 2.9 – 3.0 please download here :http://dev.huiz.net/2010/01/03/wordpress-plugin-scissors-for-v2-9/
Grand Flagallery – powerfull media gallery content plugin. Easy interface for handling photos, image galleries, audio and video galleries.
With this gallery plugin you can easy upload images, create music and video playlists, create photo gallery, group pictures in photo slideshow and add descriptions for each image, mp3 or video – Grand Flagallery is the smart choice when showing the best of your product or describing in brief any event. Grand Flagallery can easily beautify your site with photo gallery, mp3 player, video player, banner rotator, nivo slider or nice slideshow widgets. SEO optimized, compatibility with Google Reader, FeedBerner, etc.
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one category, a mix of categories, or pages.
This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured content using either the JonDesign SmoothGallery script for mootools, or a custom jQuery script. The plugin dynamically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured content by either automatically pulling in the first Image Attachment from relevant Posts/Pages, or by specifying image URLs in a DCG Metabox in the Write screen for the relevant Posts/Pages. Additionally, default images can be displayed in the event that Posts/Pages don’t have an Image Attachment or manually specified image. A Dashboard Settings page gives access to a comprehensive range of options for populating the gallery and configuring its look and behaviour. The DCG can be added to your theme as a Widget, or by using a template tag.
For best results, make sure that your theme supports Post Thumbnails, introduced in WP 2.9.
Compatible with network-enabled (multisite) WordPress 3.0+, though available plugin options are slightly reduced.
Many People are waiting for wordpress news. They don’t know where to find the latest news about wordpress. In this article I will tell you where to find the instantly updated wordpress news.
where to Find WordPress News
I regularly post the wordpress news very frequently. Some time I am not able to post the wordpress news due to work. But people are are looking for wordpress related news.
There are some very good blogs about wordpress they keep posting the wordpress news. I found they never miss the latest wordpress news.
I specially recommend users to check following sites for latest wordpress news.
In this article I will tell you where you can find the latest wordpress news.
Now these days best and attractive images are the part of every articles. I can say image is useful for your posts. Images made easy to understand to readers what you want to say in the post. Here we given the list of resources where you get free image for wordpress posts
Many wordpress blogger go to google for images and find the images. They put the image into their blogs. Some time that will cause you serious legal issues.
where we get free image for wordpress posts
where we get free image for wordpress posts
There are very good places to find good free images for your blogs. Here is the list of that.
Flickr: Flickr is a really great source for free pics, however make sure to contact the owner of the picture and ask permission before using it. I have done this a lot in the past and a lot of people are willing to share their pictures. Give them a good reason, maybe a quick complement and offer a link back to their Flickr profile.
Stockvault: Stockvault has a lot of nice stock photos, just be warned that this site is filled with adsense.
deviantART: This is a huge community of artist sharing all sorts of images and graphics. Again, checkout the license of the graphic as a lot of these aren’t free, yet it is still a great source for free images if you become familiar with the site.
Stock.xchng: Saving the best for last here you’ll be able to find a lot of great stock photos as well as PSD’s, templates, background images and more. Please checkout the restrictions before using
Free Images – Free Stock Photos: FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost-free stock photos. Free stock photographic library.
gettyimages: Getty Images royalty-free gives creative freedom to crop, manipulate and combine stock photos for your project needs. Simple, affordable pricing, unlimited use.”
Keeping your wordpress database is very important for wordpress database. In this article we explained, How to clean up and optimize wordpress database. This will improve your site speed aslo. Many times you install the wordpress plugins and some time you dont want that plugins and you delete that plugins.
How to clean up and optimize wordpress database
There is very nice wordpress plugin is avilable for database backup.
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
But that plugins create some tables in your wordpress database. You need to remove that tables from your wordpress database.
Imp note: when ever you are cleaning the database or deleting the unwanted tables from wordpress database. Please consult with your web administrator.
Dont forget to take a full backup of your database.
This tutorial should be forward-compatible with WordPress 3.0
Install WP-DB-Backup by Austin Matzko
Mouse over Tools so that the down arrow appears
Click the down arrow
Click Backup
You’ll see something like this:
How to clean up and optimize wordpress database
On the left are the default database tables included with WordPress. All of these are included every time you backup. The only thing you have to decide here is whether to exclude spam comments from being backed up (I recommend this) and whether to exclude post revisions (I recommend excluding these too, unless you have a specific reason for keeping revisions).
On the right is a list of additional database tables, most of which were probably created by plugins. There’s also a table called that will end with the name “commentmeta” – this can be used by plugins.
If your plugins have created a lot of data that you would like to save, or you’ve spent a lot of time configuring particular plugins, you’ll want to backup these tables. Otherwise, you can keep your database backups smaller by not checking them.
Next we see the Backup Option. There are three choices here:
A. Save to the server
This will save a backup of your database as a file on your web server. I don’t recommend this.
B. Download to your computer.
This will create a database backup file that you can save to your local computer.
C. Email backup to:
This allows you to send a copy of the backup to any e-mail address you’d like.
Let’s go ahead and download a copy to our hard drives now.
Check options you want in the Tables section then click “Backup now!”
You should see a progress bar, and when that’s done your browser will prompt you to save the file. You can save this file wherever you’d like.
There’s another section called “Scheduled Backup.” This is where this program gets really great.
Here we can schedule a backup to be e-mailed to a particular e-mail address however often we’d like. I recommend checking selecting “Once Daily.”
On the right, you’ll see that list of optional tables again. Check the ones you want to backup every time the backup runs.
Enter the e-mail address you want the backups delivered to in the “Email backup to:” field.
Click “Schedule backup.”
You should now get a backup file as an e-mail attachment every day. You should save these attachments to your local computer. If you’re using Gmail or another web mail host that has a lot of storage space, you might want to leave your databases on their server as an additional off-site backup. Be aware that that’s an additional security risk – if your e-mail account is ever compromised, the would have access to all of your database backups.
Restrict the Adults on wordpress website, Many times you website content is not suitable for all the age group. There is very nice wordpress free plugin available.
There’s a lot of content which isn’t appropriate for all ages. The [Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP)](http://www.asacp.org/ “ASACP) has developed the Restricted to Adults (RTA) tag which most online protection software respects.
Restrict the Adults on wordpress website
Installing the RTA tag on a WordPress install can be somewhat complicated, so the Restricted to Adults plugin makes it one click — activate the plugin and your site is restricted to adults.
If you want the nice slide animation effect with javascript. you can use following javascript. Here I am not using any third party javascript library for creating the slide effect. Slide effect with popup you can achieve with only javascript.
popup slide effect with only javascript
For In page popup slide effect you can use following JavaScript code.
and use the following javscript code in your document.
[viral-lock message=”Solution code is Hidden! It’s Visible for Users who Liked/Shared This article on Facebook or Twitter or Google+. Like or Tweet this article to reveal the content.”]
function movead(){
timerID = setInterval("mocontainer()", 50);
}
function mocontainer(){
var popup_element = document.getElementById('popup-container');
animate_moveit(popup_element,0,-5);
}
function animate_moveit(obj, x, y){
obj.style.left = parseInt(obj.style.left) + x +"px"
obj.style.top = parseInt(obj.style.top)+ y + "px"
}
[/viral-lock]
For changing the slide direction change the values in following line and put in to the mocontainer function
animate_moveit(popup-element,-5,0); – this is for right to left
animate_moveit(popup-element,0,-5); – bottom to top
Inpage Popup are most used JS for website developers. Here in this article I given full detailed code for popup using javascript. Many times we need to minimize and restore functionality for our in page pop-up. In This article I will show how to achieve the minimize and maximize and restore functionality with javascript.
minimize, restore, maximize and hide functionality with javascript
minimize, restore, maximize and hide functionality with javascript
I you want the minimize functionality for your in page pop-up use following code for minimize and restore button. Following code you can use for showing the minimize button on pop-up.
Note: Here for this example My in page popup div id name is “popup-container”. For using following example you should keep the main popup continer id name is “popup-container”.
Use following javascript function in your document.
[viral-lock message=”Solution code is Hidden! It’s Visible for Users who Liked/Shared This article on Facebook or Twitter or Google+. Like or Tweet this article to reveal the content.”]
Above function will swap the minimize and restore button through javascript.
Using following function you can achieve the maximize and maximize restore functionality using the simple javascript. following code you need to use in your html for maximize button.
