The default WordPress search is not the best search result provider for WordPress posts. Fortunately, there are some very good alternatives such as Google Custom Search. I will show you how to use Google Custom Search to give your visitors a better experience when they search for blog posts on your website or blog. In…
There are times when you want to use a full width template for your blog post or WordPress page without the sidebar(s), left or right. To achieve this, you need to create a Full-Width Page Template in your WordPress theme. Follow these steps to do this: 1. Go to your theme directory, and make a…
I started getting following XID error message in my Facebook Comments Box Social Plugin which I had integrated on one of my website some time back. “The comments plugin requires an application id to properly namespace the provided xid.” Reason for this error is that Facebook has again updated its Social Plugins and although I…
I had to move web hosting for one of the WordPress based website recently and once on new server, there are many things that may create problems that need to be fixed. One of the issues is that its media/images uploading starts giving following error: “your image.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error…
I decided to switch off my Nokia N900 while going into some meeting room, but it refused to switch back on. I assumed initially that battery might be low or dead so decided to charge but even that did not make any difference. Pressing power button would not have any effect at all! No charge…
In osCommerce store which has been set up to accept payment using multiple payment modules, there are chances that you might want to accept payments in specific currencies based on payment methods. Not every payment method support all currencies. You can change currency based on payment module selection by adding few lines of code on…
While working in osCommerce store, there are many places where you want to show some infromation only to logged in customers, and some thing else to non-logged in users. For this purpose, you need to check tep_session_is_registered(‘customer_id’) variable and show different blocks of content. In the following code, I have put togther an example where…
When we load external swf files in Flash Movies, they may take some time to load and it’s better to place a preloader in the main movie to inform user that content is loading. It’s a bit tricky to set up preloader for external swf using ActionScript3 in Flash. Following example will show how you…
While setting up AlertPay Payment module in a osCommerce Store, I encountered following error “ap_shippingcharges field must be numeric” during a test purchase. To fix this error, open catalog/includes/modules/payment/alertpay.php Find this: tep_draw_hidden_field(‘ap_shippingcharges’, $order->info[‘shipping_cost’]) . Replace with this: tep_draw_hidden_field(‘ap_shippingcharges’, number_format($order->info[‘shipping_cost’], 2, ‘.’, ”)) . I have also updated the AlertPay contribution on osCommerce website here. Hope…