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Drush is great native application for development of drupal project. I really like to use this tool in every project. There are some good steps to install drush on Linux or windows environment. I recently installed drush on my centos machine. Here are those steps:
Commands has been highlighted in blue color.
[root@ap107 purab]# wget http://files.drush.org/drush.phar
–2016-04-21 11:50:43– http://files.drush.org/drush.phar
Resolving files.drush.org… 54.231.81.40
Connecting to files.drush.org|54.231.81.40|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 5264426 (5.0M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “drush.phar”
100%[===========================================================================================================================================================>] 5,264,426 221K/s in 65s
[root@ap107 purab]# php drush.phar core-status
PHP configuration : /etc/php.ini
PHP OS : Linux
Drush script : /home/purab/drush.phar
Drush version : 8.0.5
Drush temp directory : /tmp
Drush configuration :
Drush alias files :
[root@ap107 purab]# chmod +x drush.phar
[root@ap107 purab]# mv /usr/local/bin/drush /usr/bin/drush
[root@ap107 purab]# drush init
Copied example Drush configuration file to /root/.drush/drushrc.php [ok]
Copied example Drush bash configuration file to /root/.drush/drush.bashrc [ok]
Copied Drush completion file to /root/.drush/drush.complete.sh [ok]
Copied example Drush prompt file to /root/.drush/drush.prompt.sh [ok]
# Include Drush bash customizations.
if [ -f “/root/.drush/drush.bashrc” ] ; then
source /root/.drush/drush.bashrc
fi
# Include Drush completion.
if [ -f “/root/.drush/drush.complete.sh” ] ; then
source /root/.drush/drush.complete.sh
fi
# Include Drush prompt customizations.
if [ -f “/root/.drush/drush.prompt.sh” ] ; then
source /root/.drush/drush.prompt.sh
fi
Append the above code to /root/.bashrc? (y/n): y
Updated bash configuration file /root/.bashrc [ok]
Start a new shell in order to experience the improvements (e.g. `bash`). [ok]
[root@ap107 purab]# drush
In wordpress comments most effective way of discussion and communication with people. Some times we want to delete some or all comments from wordpress website. Here in this tutorial, we given some basic ways to delete the wordpress comments from your site.
How to delete all wordpress comments
Note: Before doing anything, it is important to take backup of your database is very important. Always take backup of your database and file system before performing any major database of plugin related operation.
Delete comments through database
If you have access to your database through PHPmyadmin than go to there. If you have shared hosting panel than in dashboard page you will find the PHPmyadmin link or icon there. Login to PHPmyadmin and select your wordpess database. You are able to see page like as follows:
wordpress-delete-comments
Select the wp_comments and wp_commentmeta table and select empty option from dropdown. Do not press drop icon. It is very dangerous. Only make it empty table. Above tables are very important to run your wordpess site.
2. Use delete all comments wordpress plugin.
Go to this page “Delete All Comments” and download this plugin. Install wordpress plugin your site using admin panel. Do not forget to activate this plugin through plugins option.
After activating this plugin go to Tools->Delete all comments section or page.
Delete_All_Comments-wordpress
Check above checkbox (Delete all comments) and hit Delete All button. It will delete all comments from your wordpress site.
If you want to disable or hide unwanted items from wordpress admin area. There are many solutions and wordpress plugins available for admin features. I always like one wordpress plugin which is really great for admin area enhancement.
Main advantage of plugin is, it is truly opensource. you can modify this plugin as per your client and development needs. If you are wordpress developer than following information will be informative to you.
For development see this repository: https://github.com/bueltge/Adminimize The master branch is the current version and the new will leave in the v2.0 branch.
If you manage a multi-author WordPress blog or WordPress sites for clients, then you may have wondered if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users? There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users don’t need to see or use. This plugin help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area.
Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.
Search for helping hands
Over the time the plugin was extended the plugin with much requirements and his solutions. But the source is not easy to maintain for me, I’m unhappy with the source. I have learned about coding, architecture etc.
Currently I search for developer there will help on dev and support the plugin. The plugin have a github repository to easy add a issue or a create a fork, pull request. Also to add issues to understand problems.
Especially the functionality for WP Multisite is currently more a hack as a solution. But is very complex, not easy to create a solution for this.
Following are some admin screen of this plugin.
hide unwanted items from wordpress admin
Support Custom Options on all different post types
With version 1.6.1 it is possible to add own options for hide areas in the backend of WordPress. It is easy and you must only forgive ID or class of the tag. Also it is possible to use a fixed menu and header.
Support Custom Post Type
Also it is possible with version 1.7.18 to use on custom post types; hide ‘unnecessary’ areas on the custom post types for different roles and post types.
Compatibility with the plugins for MetaBoxes in Write-area
You can add your own options, you must only see for css selectors
If you want to change user color scheme for all users on your site and change user experience. You can change default admin color scheme without any plugin. You need need to add small code snippet into your theme’s functions.php file. You can find this file in your theme folder.
Open functions.php file and put following code in that file.
There are many wordpress admin related methods and code snippet written in my site. simply use search functionality for more code snippets or check wordpress tutorials section.
Selling digital downloads is something that not a single one of the large WordPress ecommerce plugins has ever gotten really right. This plugin aims to fix that. Instead of focusing on providing every single feature under the sun, Easy Digital Downloads tries to provide only the ones that you really need. It aims to make selling digital downloads through WordPress easy, and complete.
Enable Sales Alerts for Digital Downloads wihtout plugin. You will first need to add the ID of the download you wish to be alerted about. You can then set the default milestone amount, currently the snippet is at 100.
You can download his full code base from following URL
function sumobi_edd_milestone_sales_alert( $purchase_id ) {
// ID of download to check
$download_id = 8;
// sales milestone to reach
$milestone = 100;
// email/s to send the notification to. Add more emails to array if necessary
$send_to = get_option( ‘admin_email’ );
// get the current number of sales for the download
$sales = get_post_meta( $download_id, ‘_edd_download_sales’, true );
// message to be included in the email
$message = sprintf( ‘Congratulations, you have just reached your milestone of %s sales for %s! View this sale here: %s’, $milestone, get_the_title( $download_id ), admin_url( ‘edit.php?post_type=download&page=edd-payment-history&view=view-order-details&id=’ . $purchase_id ) );
// send email is milestone is reached
if ( $milestone == $sales ) {
wp_mail( $send_to, ‘Milestone reached!’, $message );
}
}
add_action( ‘edd_complete_purchase’, ‘sumobi_edd_milestone_sales_alert’ );
Credit goes to Andrew Munro. Thanks him for this snippet.
Some days before I installed new wordpress 4.3 version, I came across with issue of sending email forcefully to new wordpress user on their email address. Many times wordpress admin wants to create users like authors, contributers and subscribers in their website. But with newer version of wordpress, we cannot create wordpress users without informing them.
This password email change is added for better security. This feature has following feature.
– Strong admin control over options
– Random generator is fine, but
– Strong passwords mandatory, at least XX (16? 20?) characters
Here is tutorial for disable sending password email to new wordpress users
Following is screen shot of user creation form in wordpress 4.3 and newer version.
Disable sending password email to new wordpress users
Issue
Many times, I requested to add guest post so, I wanted to create contributes. But due to this feature, I cannot create users without email confirmation.
Here is solution:
You can add following code in your functions.php file, which you can find in your wordpress theme folder.
// Fix New User Email Send
if ( !function_exists('wp_new_user_notification') ) :
function wp_new_user_notification( $user_id, $notify = '' ) { }
endif;
After adding this code, I am able to create wordpress user without sending email to user.
Free social icons and vector images are needed for every application and websites. For android, iphone apps we need the vector art and images for download. We found many free social icons and vector images. There are thousands of free social icons and vector images we can find for download on many websites.
Social icons and vector images are required for creating websites and mobile applications. Free images and arts are very important for that.
I liked following social images and vector images. You can download these free images from here.
Real estate market is growing fast now these days. WordPress is great solution for real estate sites and agencies. we collected some the best wordpress themes which are helpful to real estate.
Property buying and selling and house or land rent business are growing in the world. For Office space and commercial space, people are looking solutions online. WordPress has great SEO inbuilt. So many people looking customized wordpress theme which has real estate features.
Best wordpress themes for real estate agencies in 2015
We collected some of nice and great wordpress themes which are very intelligent and beautiful for corporate websites and portals.
WP Pro Real Estate 7 is the end all be all of WordPress real estate themes, with powerful options & tools, advanced search & mapping, endlessly customizable with live previewer, 5 pre-built demos (more coming soon), 3 header layouts, co-listing support, booking system, front end management, Revolution Slider, dsIDXpress, favorite listings, sub listings and much, much more!
You can build anything with WP Pro Real Estate 7 from a paid real estate listing portal, to a vacations rental site like AirBNB, to a single real estate listing landing page site, or a site for apartment rentals! This is quite literally the End All Be All of Real Estate Themes.
With Megareal users are able to manage their own listings without accessing admin dashboard. They can manage their profile, password and payment backlog too. By using Megareal you can start charging your users and earn money. We prepared for you theme with strong monetization focus. Pay per post and packages are industry standard but you can use our new “extras” earning tools (including pay per featured or pay for TOP) to increase your monthly wage. Combination of monetization and our statistics makes Megareal a powerful theme.
Theme is quite scalable and you can use it for large real estate portals or small agencies in just few clicks. Do you need custom change in your website? Not a problem at all. Everything is hooked into WordPress actions and can be easily removed or added. If you have a problem check our extended documentation or video channel. At the end there is an always our dedicated support staff to help you.
Quick Sale | Single Property Real Estate Theme is a premium wordpress theme crafted both for real estate agencies and property owners. For sale by owner trend get’s more popular nowadays and this professional real estate theme is specially crafted for such websites. You can use it to sell single property object or modify it as a corporate page for real estate agency. We are sure that the theme will go beyond the scopes of your initial expectations and provide more features than you could imagine. Powerful Options panel, color management system, comprehensive set of shortcodes and visual page composer give space for your creativity and help to create the most sophisticated designs
Top Producer/Top Speed is the long awaited follow-up on the successful OpenDoor theme. We have retained all of the best OpenDoor features, added more. It combines both real estate and car sales into a single theme, where you can switch between the two in Theme Options.
Our 3rd real estate/car sales theme
The first was Openhouse/Automotiv, which is no longer available. It had over 7,500 sales and for a while was a top 10 Themeforest theme of all time!
The second is OpenDoor, which is still selling strong here on Themeforest with over 3,500 sales so far.
You can feel confident in purchasing this new theme knowing about our strong reputation and history with selling real estate and car dealer themes on Themeforest.
Realsite is advanced real estate WordPress theme. It is a result of years of development in real estate industry. Theme is completely covering needs of real estate agencies or portals. We are bringing on the table absolutely new features like property and search statistics, multiple currencies or property comparison.
With Realsite users are able to manage their own listings without accessing admin dashboard. They can manage their profile, password and payment backlog too. By using Realsite you can start charging your users and earn money. We prepared for you theme with strong monetization focus. Pay per post and packages are industry standard but you can use our new “extras” earning tools (including pay per featured or pay for TOP) to increase your monthly wage. Combination of monetization and our statistics makes Realsite a powerful theme.
Reales WP is a WordPress premium real estate theme with a modern, clean, intuitive, and fully responsive design, that looks perfect on any size tablet or mobile screen. It is loaded with lots of features like Front-end property submission and edit, Advanced autocomplete search, Google Maps integration, Advanced Properties filter, Useful shortcodes, Custom colors, Login with Facebook and Google accounts, Front-end agents registration, Add properties to favourites and a lot more.
Start selling properties today with this easy-to-use and fully featured WordPress Theme. When purchasing this theme, you will receive a detailed help file along with additional features like Unlimited Color Schemes and Demo Content.
Dream Home is a clean, simple, and fully responsive WordPress theme for building Real Estate and Property websites. It designed for real estate agents, brokers, agencies, and any company or organization who’s business is dealing in property.
Skyestate – Real Estate with Front end Submission WordPress Theme
Skyestate is a responsive, flexible and easy-to-use real estate WordPress theme. This theme also has a rich feature like : property search, property slider, property map with stylish markers, front end user login & register, front end property submit & edit, payment integration with PayPal. Skyestate is suitable for agency owners, personal or standalone Real estate agents, who want to receive personal, regional or global Real estate website.
WordPress is widely and most used CMS framework. Many people are using wordpress for there websites and blogs. Due to best SEO options of wordpress many people using wordpress as e-commerce solution.
Themeforest is one of the great place for commercial wordpress themes and plugins. We collected some of best wordpress themes which are very popular and most downloaded in the world.
Cheope is a clean theme that utilises the powerful Woo Commerce plugin to create a versatile WordPress powered shop, with unlimited layout options and a lot of features.
Some features of Cheope are: unlimited sliders with 8 sliders type (2 premium sliders included); Zoom effect in the product detail page (premium plugin 7$ value); popup plugin included to show offers and news; megamenu with images support; List/grid view in the products page; 2 custom checkout pages (a nice tabbed checkout page); “catalog mode” to use the theme like a catalog, without the cart option; filterable faqs; SEO panel to optimize the SEO; Shortcode manager with 200+ shortcodes, products sliders, 10 custom widgets…and so on!
Neighborhood is super responsive, retina ready, and built upon the 1170px Twitter Bootstrap framework. Featuring a clean, modern, and superbly slick design, packed with the most powerful Swift Framework which offers limitless possibilities. The incredible Swift Page Builder is at the core of our framework, giving you the control to create sites that do your content justice. We’ve built in some incredible features such as the super search, full WooCommerce support, and so much more. If you’re looking to build any kind of website, then Neighborhood is what you need.
Nouveau is multi-purpose, modern, elegant, retina ready, responsive WordPress theme ideal for creative use, photography, portfolio showcase, modern businesses, agency, fashion, blog, shop, personal use, etc. Nouveau is highly customizable theme with unlimited combinations of header layouts, title area layouts, mega menu, side menu and tons of shortcodes. With powerful and flexible theme options, included page builder, it gives freedom to create beautiful web sites and unlimited number of different page layouts.
Welcome to Snapshop – commerce template that will amaze you with awesome functionality. We have designed snapshop to fit almost all e-commerce businesses. You can successfully use Snap shop wordpress template for standard shopping websites such as Food & Groceries shop, Household Goods shop, Pet Supplies shop, Consumer Electronics shop, Office Supplies & Books shop, Clothing & Apparel shop. The versatility of this responsive woocommerce template allows you build more creative and modern shop websites for specific products: Single Item Sales, Creative Clothing & Apparel, Luxury Goods, Creative Consumer Electronics & Goods, Exclusive Shops, Vintage Products.
Shoppinggo WordPress theme is Flexible and Responsive WordPress E-Commerce themethat makes your store looks nice and good with the powerfull option to change the color, you will have possibilities to create unique e-commerce website that kick-ass! — This theme will fit within wide-range categories, almost any type of your products for your online store, customize color, create new layout scheme on homepage.
Mikmag is the perfect solution for you creative individuals and professionals looking for a highly versatile, greatly comprehensive and well-designed WordPress Theme power packed with Premium features and templates you can build from and customize.
Woocommerce, Buddypress and yes BBPress Ready
It is WooCommerce 2.0 ready for those roaring to get their products out unto the market, inclusive of BuddyPress making it possible for building WordPress-powered social networks, and contains bbPress wherein you can create forums for your target group/s. To top off the deal, Mikmag offers a myriad of short codes and extra options for attracting potential advertisers. It is truly one smart theme!
This elegant and extremely flexible WordPress theme comes with responsive design, ready for retina and support such eCommerce plugins as: WooCommerce, JigoShop, eCommerce.
Keronchong – Band, Music & Event WooCommerce Theme
Keronchong is a multipurpose best WordPress theme for music, band, club, party and radio station. You could also use it for entertainment magazine website talking about music and band. It has every feature you need for an official music producer or band website, such as floating Music Player to play your featured music at the bottom of the page. Keronchong also has Event Manager Feature to allow you to announce any music or band event. With WooCommerce support – selling your music and band merchandise online would be easier. What you can do with Keronchong band and music woocommerce as your website theme:
One stop shopping site for purchasing merchandise, musical works and tickets (with WooCommerce support)
View performance video
Listen to featured song
Showcase musical works portfolio
Announce bands event
And many more, just check the demo site.
Here in this article, I collected some of my favorite commercial wordpress themes which are good for e-commerce and blogging and corporate sites.
WooCommerce is great tool for e-commerce solution. Many websites are using wooCommerce as e-commerce base in their site. WordPress itself is SEO friendly and great CMS tool for any website building.
What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce
WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.
With endless flexibility and access to hundreds of free and premium WordPress extensions, WooCommerce now powers 30% of all online stores — more than any other platform.
Here we collected great collection of wordpress plugins which enhance woocommerce functionality.
wordpress plugins for woocommerce
Here are some great wordpress plugins which we can use with WooCommerce.
New powerful Design Tool. This plugin helps you build a website allow customers design or customize shirts, business cards, phone case and any prints before the order. Business solution for the printing and embroidery.
Bookly – Responsive WordPress Appointment Booking and Scheduling Plugin
Bookly Plugin – is a great easy-to-use and easy-to-manage booking tool for Service providers who think about their customers. Plugin supports wide range of services, provided by business and individuals service providers offering reservations through websites. Setup any reservations quickly, pleasantly and easily with Bookly!
Bookly perfectly supports:
beauty, massage, wellness and healthcare reservations;
Create your own professional e-mail template within a few minutes without any coding skills.
Easily change texts, colors, fonts, pictures, tables and alignment and see all your changes immediately in the live preview.
You don’t need any coding skills, you won’t even see any HTML or CSS code. Everything can be edited via simple menus and buttons.
WooCommerce Selective Registration allows you to require account registration for certain products in WooCommerce. It supports both simple and variation products.
WooCommerce gives the option to enable guest checkout, which allows anyone access to purchase any published product. Alternatively, disabling guest checkout, users are not able to purchase products without registering or logging in. WooCommerce Selective Registration allows you to set which products should require a user to register and/or log in to purchase, while keeping your e-commerce shop open to guests.
WooCommerce to Shopify Exporter is a WordPress plugin that allows you to instantly export all your WooCommerce products (including all their data) to a Shopify compatible file. All is left for you is to import the file to Shopify and enjoy the swiftness of the process – within a short while, you could have ALL your product in your Shopify shop. All it takes for you is two clicks!
Preparing the Exporter takes no longer than a few minutes. The Exporter’s Control Panel is very well documented, and choosing the right settings is designed as a easy step-by-step guide.
WooCommerce Coming Soon Product lets you to enable coming soon mode for products with time to launch it. Products will be automatically launched on that time, and will show a countdown timer until that time overs.
It removes the “add to cart” button from product when product is in coming soon mode, and also lets you to enable email subscriptions for each product.
An email will be sent automatically to all subscribers of that product when product will release. You can also customize email Subject and Contents for each product and can use HTML in Email Contents.
You can also customize Clock colors, and it has ability to hide/show price and tabs when product is in coming soon mode. Short description can also be customized.
Stack Slider is a great add on for Visual composer and a truly impressive way to showcase you UI/UX, portfolio, store or any kind of content in your WordPress theme.
This is a sleek and edgy slider, applicable to every theme supporting Visual Composer, which will make your content outstanding and your site memorable.
You can easily select your content by choosing from posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce products, categories, tags, displaying order and and much more. You can build every slide like you’re building a normal page with Visual Composer. You can use 3d party shortcodes for slider content and embed audio, video, iframes, shortcodes for slider content or even use your theme styled Visual Composer elements for slider content. It is extremely flexible in terms of adjustments and very user friendly.
