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[Solved] Disqus causing admin panel issues in wordpress

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:07:04 +0000

Disqus comment system was causing javascript errors, which in chrome console looked something like this: Uncaught Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [href=edit-comments.php?page=disqus] It caused unmovable widgets, screen-options didn’t open and other related javascript issues in admin panel. After some researching it turns out, there’s a simple fix. In /wp-content/plugins/disqus-comment-system/disqus.php, find: href=edit-comments.php?page=disqus and replace it with: href=”edit-comments.php?page=disqus” [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Stop phpmyadmin from asking username, password in localhost

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:22:32 +0000

Yesterday, I showed you how you can keep local installation of phpmyadmin from logging you out every few minutes. I took one more step and edited configuration to not ask me username, password at all. Now phpmyadmin never asks me for mysql username and password. Keep in mind if you follow this tutorial anyone would [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Extend phpmyadmin session expiration time

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:34:21 +0000

Recently, I got frustrated being logged out every few minutes (24 minutes, to be precise) from phpmyadmin on my localhost. I make some db changes, write some code and when I get back to phpmyadmin, I would see my session had expired. To fix this, I changed the configuration so that my session would expire [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Remove admin bar from wordpress 3.1

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:17:41 +0000

The new admin bar in wordpress 3.1 is one good feature to have but sometimes its unwanted. For example you might already have some other kind of top bar with which admin bar may interfere. You can remove the admin bar by putting the following code in /wp-content/YOURTHEME/functions.php: if(function_exists('show_admin_bar')){ show_admin_bar(false); } Related posts:[Solved] Disqus causing [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] ‘Error at offset’ error in unserialize()

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:32:30 +0000

I came across this weird error in unserialize() where it refused to unserialize the serialized data. After hours of trying different things to solve it, finally converting the encoding worked. The solution to the problem is to use the following function instead of unserialize(): function safe_unserialize($str){ return unserialize( trim( mb_convert_encoding( $str,'auto','UTF-8' ) ) ); } [...] Related posts:

[HOWTO] Fix Twitter clients (or PHP scripts) which use basic authentication.

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:16:04 +0000

As you probably know, Twitter completely ditched basic authentication method on August 31st, 2010. It now supports only OAuth method of authentication which complicates the coding process multiple folds. Scripts which were previously 20 lines long now span several files. While there are numerous advantage of Oauth like client doesn’t need to know your password, [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Add expires headers to cache static files using htaccess

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:52:23 +0000

Caching is one of the most important things to keep in mind when you are developing a website which is expected to get large amount of visitors. Most web developers neglect caching, some even don’t know correct ways to implement it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable browser cache of static files [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Enable or disable modules in Apache

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:14:47 +0000

You can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these commands is really simple: To enable a module: sudo a2enmod module_name To disable a module: sudo a2dismod module_name For instance, [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Check your php and server information using phpinfo()

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:53:22 +0000

We can check the php configuration, apache’s loaded modules and all other kinds of PHP configuration using a simple function called phpinfo(). Create a file called infophp.php in your web’s root directory and put the following code in it: <? phpinfo(); ?> This would output all the php configuration info and apache information. You can [...] Related posts:

[HOWTO] Send emails(using mail function) from localhost in PHP through msmtp (using gmail account) on Linux

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:08:27 +0000

There’ve been lots of times when I wanted to use the mail() function on my local server. I am sure lots of you would’ve been wanting it too but most of you would’ve settled for PHPMailer or just used a web host to test the code instead. I myself had been doing the same until [...] Related posts: