Social Media and Technology Blog » Blogging http://openhippo.com " Share your Knowledge " Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:11:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Get Mobile Version of Your Website or Blog Using Google Reader http://openhippo.com/get-mobile-version-of-your-website-or-blog-using-google-reader/ http://openhippo.com/get-mobile-version-of-your-website-or-blog-using-google-reader/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:41:36 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=2503 If  you want to push your site on the mobile world than Google Reader can be the best option for you. There are plugins available to make your site visible on the phones.

But I am looking for the Google Reader easy and fast way to push your web latest post/articles on the phone. Its only require RSS Feed URL of your blog. For Ex( http://openhippo.com/feeds ).By default the wordpress blog RSS feeds are set ( http:/yoursiteurl/feeds ).

Its very easy.

  • Okay, If you are willing than make a subdomain ( ex:- http://m.openhippo.com ) . You have to log in the cpanel and than manage subdomains and add the subdomain.
  • Now you have to make a index.html file and paste some code. ( The code is below  )

[php]<html>
<head>
<title>Openhippo Web | Social Media and  Tech Blog, Reviews, Tutorial and WordPress </title>
<META name="description" content=". Topics focus on blogging, tech news, reviews, tutorials and computing tips."><META name="keywords" content="opensource, blogging tips,facebook, google, WordPress, reviews, tutorials, blogging, security, tips and tricks, hacks">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/feed://www.openhippo.com/feed" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>
</html>

[/php]

  • In the above code you have to modify the RSS feed URL only.

mobile view of site

Its done. Now your blog article can be fast accessible on the mobile phones.

Thanks “Share Your knowledge “.

]]> http://openhippo.com/get-mobile-version-of-your-website-or-blog-using-google-reader/feed/ 3 Add Facebook and Twitter Links in the Author Box : Customize Author Box http://openhippo.com/add-facebook-and-twitter-links-in-the-author-box/ http://openhippo.com/add-facebook-and-twitter-links-in-the-author-box/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:50:55 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=2437 In this article, you will learn little bit coding and tricks to add social networks like Facebook, twitter, own site URL, etc.

You may get many plugin for this, but why I am not using plugin because using many plugin in your site would make site slow. It took me 3 hrs to customize the author box.

How to add Twitter and Facebook Links In the author box :-

Step 1:-  Open the file “single.php” of current  theme .

Step 2:- Search out the code

[php]<div class="authorbox">
<p>< ?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), ’48′ ); ?>
<strong>< ?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></strong><br />
< ?php the_author_meta( ‘description’ ); ?></p>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
[/php]

Step3:- Now, you need to add the following code after

[php] < ?php the_author_meta( ‘description’ ); ? [/php]

Paste the following code

[php]<p><br /><h5><align ="left">Connect with Me – - – - -</align></h5>
<a href="<?php the_author_meta(‘user_url’); ?>"> <img src="http://openhippo.com/files/website.png"/> </a>
<a href="<?php the_author_meta(‘aim’); ?>"><img src="http://openhippo.com/files/twitter.png"/></a> <a href="<?php the_author_meta(‘yim’); ?>"> <img src="http://openhippo.com/files/facebook.jpg"/></a> </p> [/php]

You can see the Image below :-

customize author box

we are using “aim” and “yim” id’s to POST and GET the Twitter and Facebook Links . So, no worries.

Step4:- Now you must change the Profile Page.

Before :-

customize author box facebook

Now- You must change the “AIM” and “Yahoo IM” , so that new user can add the twitter and facebook links there.

Open the file “wp-include/registration.php ” of wordpress package. Now search the strings “AIM” and replace with the “Twitter” and replace “Yahoo IM” with “Facebook”.

After:-
customize author box facebook

That’s it. Now you are ready with the customized author box. No need of plugin. Easy and Fast.

Do comments. If you stuck any where in the code.

“Share your Knowledge”

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Since last week I was working on designing part and making necessary changes to make openhippo web as a revenue sharing hub.

Openhippo Web officially started the revenue making program. Now the Guest bloggers can add their own adsense in their article. The ads would be shown at the top of the at post.

How to add the Adsense ID and Slot D

We have good traffic from all around the world. Writing the article would surely make money for the guest bloggers.

guest blogging

What are benefits to write on Openhippo Web :-

  • 1st ,you are surely making money.
  • Expose yourself to large daily active bloggers.
  • Social media or your social networking contact will be strengthen
  • Your profile and website will be in every bodies eyes.

The above are some benefits.

Guidelines For Guest bloggers :-

a) Content : Your article content should not break any privacy policies of openhippo and as well others. The content should be related to openhippo guidelines.

b) Comments : When you post any article, there is surety of getting comments on it, so you must reply those comments in order to make it more popular, which indeed help in making more money.

c) Social Media : If you want to make a move of your friends and other active users of internet, than you have to use the social-networking sites (Facebook, twitter, digg, buzz ) etc. Use these social media would bring  more traffic to your article.

Join Openhippo with  money making online program : Register


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Now facebook had more than 400 million users all around the world,and out of that 100 million are mobile user.
How you can integrate the facebook chat with PIDGIN instant messenger:
1. Download the pidgin IM messenger : Download
2. Add the account:
(a) Get your facebook username- Go to the Accounts – Accounts setting – username. If you have than no problem, otherwise make it.
pidgin and facebook

Add all the facebook credentials and enjoy the facebook chat on the desktop IM client.

Integrating facebook chat in pidgin is awesome

Enjoy

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You can simply use the twitter DM deleter ( “twitter Direct message deleter” ). It is a freeware tool that you can use to delete all the spam in your twitter account.

twitter dm deleter

twitter dm deleter

Now you can look multiple twitter messages in one window.

twitter message deleter

twitter message deleter

Download Twitter DM Deleter

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Here I am uploading some of the best valentine wordpress themes.  Themes are in pink, red and some themes including the hearts, to make them more to valentine love present gift.

Love Letter :
love letter

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Pink Valentine’s Theme:

[ Theme info ]  [ Demo ]

Wedding Spring:

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Valentine’s Day Theme:

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Pink Love

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Hearts Theme

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Be My Valentine

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Love U

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Love Bugs

[ Theme Info ]  [ Demo ]

Valentine Theme

[ Download ]  [ Demo ]

So enjoy the free valentine day wordpress themes. A simple and prefect  gift to your loved ones.

thanks

Wedding Spring

]]> http://openhippo.com/top-10-free-valentine-wordpress-themes/feed/ 13 Bing:Top Voted Wallpapers 2009 http://openhippo.com/bingtop-voted-wallpapers-2009/ http://openhippo.com/bingtop-voted-wallpapers-2009/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:43:14 +0000 Ritu sharma http://openhippo.com/?p=1430 I am uploading some of the top rated and votes wallpapers in 2009. Bing.com has a unique feature updating its background image daily. All the time best wallpapers of bing.com

Here are BING top rated wallpapers :

Share your Love :)

]]> http://openhippo.com/bingtop-voted-wallpapers-2009/feed/ 10 Install FileZilla in Ubuntu : 1 Step http://openhippo.com/install-filezilla-in-ubuntu-1-step/ http://openhippo.com/install-filezilla-in-ubuntu-1-step/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:25 +0000 Ritu sharma http://openhippo.com/?p=1374 FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

* Easy to use
* Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
* IPv6 support
* Available in many languages
* Supports resume and transfer of large files greater than 4GB
* Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
* Bookmarks
* Drag & drop support
* Configurable transfer speed limits
* Filename filters
* Network configuration wizard
* Remote file editing
* Keep-alive
* HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
* Logging to file

Install Filezilla in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install filezilla

This will complete the installation
Using Filezilla
If you want to open filezilla go to Applications—>Internet—>FileZilla

Enjoy the TIP

]]> http://openhippo.com/install-filezilla-in-ubuntu-1-step/feed/ 2 10 Keyboard Shortcuts for Ubuntu Users http://openhippo.com/10-keyboard-shortcuts-for-ubuntu-users/ http://openhippo.com/10-keyboard-shortcuts-for-ubuntu-users/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:20:05 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=1363 a1. Switch to the next/previous workspace
If you make use of the workspace very frequently, you can easily switch between different workspaces by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right Arrow. The Left key brings you to the previous workspace while the Right key brings you to the next adjacent. If you have enabled Compiz, you can even get it to show all the workspace by pressing Super + E on the keyboard.
2. Move the current window to another workspace
By pressing Shift+ Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right Arrow, you can easily move your current window to another workspace in the specified direction. This keyboard shortcut works very well with the one mentioned above. If you have the habit of opening many applications/windows when doing your work, but don’t like to see your desktop and menubar cluttered with all the application windows, you can use this shortcut key to move your applications to another workspace and get your desktop organized.
3. Show the desktop
Ctrl + Alt + D enables you to quickly minimize all windows and give focus to the desktop. When all windows are minimized, this shortcut can also maximize all the windows to their previous state.
4. Keyboard shortcut for the mouse right-click
In most applications, you can always right-click on the mouse to access the options menu. On the keyboard, you can simply press Shift + F10 to achieve this ‘right-click‘ effect
5. Restart session and recover from crashes
There are very few instances where Ubuntu will crash totally. But if it does, you can press Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart the session, and 90% of the time, it will recover from the crashes.
6. Lock the screen quickly
If you need to leave your workstation for a while, you can quickly lock up your screen by pressing Ctrl + Alt + L and prevent unauthorized access by others.
7. Switch between windows in the reverse direction
Alt + Tab is a common shortcut key that allow you to switch between open windows. But do you know that by including the ‘Shift‘ button, you can reverse the windows switching direction? This is useful when you press Alt + Tab too fast and passed the window that you want to switch to. Simply press down the ‘Shift‘ button to go back to the previous window in the switch cycle.
8. Move windows with arrow keys
Press Alt+F7 to activate the Move window function and use any arrows key (up, down, left, right) to move the window around the screen.
9. Show hidden files
Most of the time, you won’t need to view the hidden files in your home folder, but in the event that you need to, you can press Ctrl + H inside the Nautilus (the file manager for Ubuntu) to show all hidden files.
10. Show file properties without right-clicking the mouse
The conventional way to view a file/folder properties is to right-click the mouse and select ‘Properties‘. Now you can just press Alt + Enter to get the Properties window to appear.

]]> http://openhippo.com/10-keyboard-shortcuts-for-ubuntu-users/feed/ 1 Minimalist Google Homepage:Join the Group http://openhippo.com/minimalist-google-homepagejoin-the-group/ http://openhippo.com/minimalist-google-homepagejoin-the-group/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:11:37 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=1345 Google new experiment on the ” Simplofication of the Google Home Page”. It is called “Google Mimimalist homepage”.

In recent days google had released a script, to make minimalist google homepage.

To Join (enable ) the this feature, go to the http://www.google.com and type the following script in the address bar.

google minimalist

To disable this feature, just go to the browser cookie and delete the GOOGLE cookie named “PREF”.

Enjoy the trick :)

]]> http://openhippo.com/minimalist-google-homepagejoin-the-group/feed/ 0 Last 5 hours with WordPress: My Experience http://openhippo.com/last-5-hours-with-wordpress/ http://openhippo.com/last-5-hours-with-wordpress/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:42:37 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=1325 Hah ! after 5 hours of struggling with my site database and wordpress, at last I did it.

Today in afternoon, I was publishing some post and something gone wrong with site contents, probably it was wordpress failure or any tweak in the wordpress files.

I got afraid : It was a blank page no source code,nothing a simple blank page,I didn’t know how, but i knew one thing that i m  in trouble . There were  lots of post and i was afraid of loosing my site.

wordpress experience

I went to bed and thought for 10 minutes, came back to my desk and started to check my site database, Huh ok, thank GOD My site database was there and it was OKK, so there i got one thing, that i have to reinstall wordpress.

Re-installing the wordpress and maintaining all plugins, themes tweaks and other was tedious. So I finally decided to reinstall the WordPress.

But before installing the WordPress, I had made backup of all the previous files and folders, exported the .sql (my site database) to my PC.

Finally i was having a nice clean and fresh space for the new wordpress installation, downloaded the wordpress.zip, uploaded to my directory and extracted. Here I played a new game, i created a new database name and username , because if any thinng go wrong will not effect to my previous DB. Just simple steps to install, and Done that.

But how to get all my previous post and stuff here in new wordpress instalation. I realized that i will be importing the previous blog DB to the new DB , I opened PhpMyAdmin and imported that,it takes about 5 min But it was success

Finally It was a nice experience with the wordpress and the Database handling :) Thank you WordPress.

]]> http://openhippo.com/last-5-hours-with-wordpress/feed/ 2 Google advice:Choosing a smart password http://openhippo.com/google-advicechoosing-a-smart-password/ http://openhippo.com/google-advicechoosing-a-smart-password/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:55:27 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=1316 In the recent days we all came through  a news that about 30,000 hotmail email account had been exposed, this is really a big news for all the NET world. It is not only the hotmail who had sufferes but also gmail , yahoo accounts had been exposed. The only reason behind this is the PHISHING page.

password secure

Phishing page is similar look and feel page of any real site.

Yesterday on the gmail blog I read about how to choose the smart passwords.

- Use Different password at different levels :- Meaning is that don’t always use a single password everywhere. It is not good sense that somebody is using the gmail password and twitter , facebook or his/her online bank account password same. It is always recommended to choose different password at different levels.

- Don’t use your personal data in password:- So while choosing the password, you might think of easy to remember its good but what first comes in your mind is the your “ personal related password string “, That really bad way, don’t use your personal information in the password.

-Don’t use common words or sequences:- Ok, here you are suggest not to choose your password containing common words or sequences. Example:-
“smartboy” or “coolguy” is not the strong password, so it can be cracked easily. You can modify above password as ” sm4rtB0y” and ” C0oLg8y “.

- Make sure that password recovery question is also secure :- Securing the password is not a winning a battle but you may also think of your security question, Hackers uses this way and also easily crack the email accounts and other accounts, so choose the strong question and you are suggested to Choose your own question, never give the hint which can directly understood.

]]> http://openhippo.com/google-advicechoosing-a-smart-password/feed/ 2 Newbie Guide: Important Plugins for WordPress Blogging http://openhippo.com/newbie-guide-important-plugin-for-wordpress-blogging/ http://openhippo.com/newbie-guide-important-plugin-for-wordpress-blogging/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:29:08 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=1277 After the newie guide on the blogging in wordpress in my last post, now i would be guding you to use one of the best feature of wordpress, that is plugin management. There are many many good and effective plugin that you can use to make your work easier. The diffecrent plugin are use for the different purpose. Like if you are a twitter,facebook or any other social media site user than you can directly use the pluign to manage your appereance on the blog, next is if you want that, when ever you write any post or made any changes in the blog  and want to notify the seach engine (Google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, ask.com etc) than you can use the plugin for that. Really its very easy, Thanks to opensource ( WordPress ).

wordpress-plugin

Below are the list of plugins and their uses and download links:-

1. Google XML Sitemap :- This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

2. Akismit :-Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put in your template.

3. All In One SEO Pack :- Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

4. CommentLuv :- This is a new plugin, but it is made for some Comment LUV purpose, This plugin ensure that when ever any user comment on your blog, its automatically added the link of the last post to the comment also, no bad way only gives the way to user to make his/her post appear in the comment.

5.FeedBurner FeedSmith :-This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

6. SexyBookmarks :- Sexybookmarks provide easier way to share your posr on the diffrent social media sites. Its CMS is really nice and attractive. You got diffrent option to Choose in the given CMS. Use this

7. Smart Youtube :- Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed.The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.From version 2.0 Smart youtube also supports playback of high quality videos, works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTube embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen and most recently supports YouTube playlists.The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources. It has a number of customizable options.

8. WassUp:-Wordpress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics. For WordPress 2.2 or higher.

9.WordPress Related Posts:- Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress and aslo add feeds of the post, so it provide the more like stuff to your blog users.

10. Mighty Search:- Create your onsite Google Search with wordpress.

There are many more but most important are given above, i am providing some more plugin that you can go through.

1. Facebook Connect

2. TweetMeme or Retweet Me

3. Facebook Sharecount

4. RegisterPlus

5. MyAddManager

Try these plugin also, these can help your work easier.

Say thanks to wordpress and the developers.

Share your Knowledge :)

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Blogging is simply a way to make a regular commenting and posting, the post may include about your experience, about tech, and bla-bla-bla etc..

So to choose the platform for blogging is important, you can go with blogger, typepad, movable,blogs.com and many more providers. But the blog every provider have a differnece. Going with the movable by six apart is totally paid, blogger is google publishing platform (FREE) . But you go with the opensource wordpress, that really lovable and easy to use and install on your own domain.

What all you have to do for your own wordpress enables website :

1. Download wordpress package.

2. UnZip the package to and FTP all the files and folder to your home directory.

3. Before going to next, first you should check that you had make a database for you site. You can create a new database by using your Cpanel .

4. Now you go to the browser bar and type your own domain name. http://www.yoursitename.com

Install the wordpress , make sure that you give the proper database name, database username, database password .

Give the Blog Name.

You are all done, congrats.

In the next post, I will be giving you basic idea of blog management and good themes and plugin to robust your site.

Say hello to opensource ” WORDPRESS”

Share your Knowledge :)


]]> http://openhippo.com/newbie-guide-blogging-in-wordpress/feed/ 4 Make Your Own CMS System : Part 1 http://openhippo.com/make-your-own-cms-system-part-1/ http://openhippo.com/make-your-own-cms-system-part-1/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:07:21 +0000 Vikash Dhankar http://openhippo.com/?p=1206 Hi,

Here in this tutorial, I am providing something that you may need for your own website. The value of CMS ( Content Management System ) , in todays site is one of the most attracting feature. CMS built the site dyanamic means that, the regsiter user can directly connect to thte database and can make the change in database , which can be seen on the webpage. Really its very nice.

As I am Computer Science student so, i made this CMS in my minor project ( 6th sem).

It is very easy..GO with me step by step, I may help you.

Here we go: (

1. Install WAMP server to your PC( WIndows) or LAMP to your LINUX system. ( Learn how to configure WAMP )

2. Okay, Here i may suppose now that you had configured your WAMP.

3. Understanding CMS : CMS ( Content Management System ). It is a best way that you can interact with the database ( create and modify ) and make your web more dynamic.

4. To built a simple CMS system, first we will be creating a database named “mycms” by going :

http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and Create a New Database.

database

5. After the 4th step we are going to create a table name and the field name for a particular table.

6. Create three tables in the database “mycms”.

a)users

b)pages

c)subjects

Okay we will be having these above tables.

7. Field names in a particular table name :-

a) Table “users” contains – id int(11), username varchar(50), hashed_password varchar(40).

b) Table “pages” contains -id int(11), subject_id int(11), menu_name varchar(30), position int(3), visible tinyint(1), content text.

c) Table “subjects” contains – id int(11), menu_name varchar(30),position int(3), visible tinyint(1).

I all the above make the “id” field primary key.

At this time we are ready with our database  creation. Next we are goign to make the basic pages like login.php, logout.php, users.php, subjects.php, index.php….. etc

These all pages, designed will be done in the next post. Stay connected, its really very easy.

Share your knowledge :)

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