From the title, you probably have guessed what I am going to talk about. In WordPress, we have many APIs to list down the category, but when we use the get_category function, it lacks the ability to show the post counts from its sub or child categories. Whereas, when we use query_posts or get_posts to get posts from a particular category, it returns posts from child categories as well. I faced this problem, while developing the 2nd...

In our last post, we talked about the fact that we got hacked because of TimThumb vulnerability. While fixing the vulnerability, I realized that, we were not the only one who got hacked. Plenty of websites using TimThumb to resize their images, got hacked. So, I thought of putting together a nice step by step guide on how to recover from this kind of hack. Please note that, while the nature of the hack may vary, we are trying to give an...

It has been quite a long I am doing stuffs with WordPress. The one of the nice thing about WordPress is, we get a ready to use admin backend with almost all possible css’ needed! Nice table structure, nested menu, Title with nice icons, pagination…you just name it! WordPress has them all! To use them, what we need to do is code our plugin so that it generates the proper xhtml code with proper css classes. Finding the correct...

So, after a long break, we are back. Back with another cool new WordPress Plugin. The reason behind the in-activeness was I was really busy doing some college work and working for a client. Luckily both of the work progressed well, and the best part is, I successfully developed an Event management plugin for WordPress. Yes, this plugin has been made open source. Using WP Simple Event Management you can easily add events with start date, end...

So, we have released our second plugin WP Category Post Lists and I hope it serves you well. One thing about the plugin is, it uses WordPress’ default featured image to show the thumbnails. As discussed previously, you can register any size of images you want. While uploading the image, WordPress will automatically check for registered sizes and will crutch the image accordingly. But, what if you register a new image size? Will the...

Finally after loads of development, bug testing and feature implementation, I am glad to release my second WordPress Plugin, WP Category Post List. What the Plugin does is, gives you a fully configurable widget to show posts filtered by categories on your sidebar, footer (widgetized area). So, how it differs from other plugins of the same family? Well, just to start here are the complete feature list… #0: Feature: A total of 21...