If you have been looking for a HTML5 editor, here is a quality free one.

Aloha Editor is a free downloadable browser based HTML 5 editor that is designed to be lightweight and easy to use.

You just install Aloha Editor in your web server as this editor is also built on HTML 5. Having been built on HTML 5 has its own advantages as you get context menus, easy table creation and text editing without markups. The WYSIWYG capability of AloHa Editor is supposedly 80% faster than TinyMCE (used in WordPress admin) and CKEditor in performance tests.

It gives the WYSIWYG capability for editing content dynamically in accordions, sliders, tickers, captions or descriptions of images in slideshows. It is touted as the world’s first full featured editor that lets you edit content in place!

Once you start editing you don’t have to reload the browser to see the changes. With Aloha you are working on the final document.

Are you still using tables? With Aloha you can inset tables very easily. Hitting tab key will jump you cell to cell and hitting tab in the last cell will add another row.

Aloha produces clean HTML5 code and you can even integrate it into your own application.

I am really interested in integrating this somehow in my WordPress blogs so I can make live changes (as long as I am logged in to the site that is) on the site with this editor.

Any talented WordPress plugin authors want to take up this challenge?

Try Aloha Editor

Free HTML5 Online Editor: Aloha Editor - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/08/02 (RSS)

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I couldn’t

• create a new post
• edit an existing post
• open up the collapsible menu in the side in admin
• quick edit posts

Pretty much, it looked as if javascript had been disabled. I tried deactivating all the plugins and even renaming the plugins folder. I tried uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders manually to see if the auto upgrade missed copying the current version of files.

None of it worked. After browsing the WordPress.org forums, I came across a tip pointing to a particular db.php file in wp-contents folder. Renaming that file to db.php.0 worked!

Solution:

1. Go to wp-content
2. Backup and delete db.php file if you have one.

It appears that plugins like DB Cache, DB Caching Reloaded, etc create this file which leads to unresponsive WordPress admin area. Hopefully, this will help some of you facing the same issue.

WordPress 3.0 Can’t Edit Posts Issue - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/07/26 (RSS)

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To embed videos or slideshows from various sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, etc, I am used to grabbing the whole HTML embed code and inserting that in HTML view in the blog post.

But, it looks like WordPress has added support for oEmbed in the recent WordPress versions starting from WordPress 2.9.

What is oEmbed?

oEmbed lets you just add the video URL in your WordPress blog post without having to grab and add the HTML embed code. Just add the video/photo URL in a separate line and oEmbed will contact the site to get the embed code dynamically and display the video in the WordPress site.

The easy embedding feature is mostly powered by oEmbed, a protocol for site A (such as your blog) to ask site B (such as YouTube) for the HTML needed to embed content (such as a video) from site B.

oEmbed was designed to avoid having to copy and paste HTML from the site hosting the media you wish to embed. It supports videos, images, text, and more.

What Sites can I oEmbed?

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• blip.tv
• Flickr (both videos and images)
• Viddler
• Hulu
• Qik
• Revision3
• Scribd
• Photobucket
• PollDaddy
• Google Video
• WordPress.tv
• SmugMug (WP 3.0+)
• FunnyOrDie (WP 3.0+)

If you are using one of the top WordPress plugins for embedding video, you could do away with one less plugin now.

{via Codex}

WordPress Tip: You Don’t Need an Embed Code Anymore - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/07/14 (RSS)

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But, there is still a lot more you can do to secure your WordPress blog. As the WordPress platform gains popularity, so does the hackers trying to compromise sites running on WordPress.

Smashing Magazine has put together a nice collection of WordPress security tweaks. Some of them include

• Prevent unnecessary info from being displayed
• Force SSL usage
• Use .htaccess to protect wp-config file
• Blacklist undesired Users and Bots
• Protection from Script Injections
• Flight Back Against Content Scrapers
• Create a plugin to protect your blog from Malicios URL Requets
• Remove your WordPress version number
• Change the default ‘Admin’ username
• Prevent Directory Browsing

I would also add installing the ‘Login Lockdown’ plugin that protects your site against brute-force attack. You can also see some of the top WordPress plugins that address security issues in our list. 

{via Smashing Magazine}

Top 10 WordPress Security Tweaks - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/07/01 (RSS)

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I am sure you curious about the new features in WordPress 3.0 and here is a few important ones

• WordPress and WordPress MU have merged – manage multiple WordPress sites from one WP installation.
• New default theme – Twenty Ten
• New custom menu management feature
• Custom header and background APIs.
• Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the update
• Shortlinks support
• Improved Custom post types and custom taxonomies
• Themes to style visual editor
• Improved revision comparison UI
• Adds FunnyorDie.com oEmbed support
• Changes to comments UI
• Tab indenting and multi-line tabbing in theme editor
• Tag Cloud widget to support non-tag taxonomies
• New templace files – front-page.php, single-{post-type}.php, author-{nicename}.php, author-{id}.php, taxonomy.php.
• Tab interface for Manage Themes and Install themes
• Improved child theme support
• Bulk Plugin update

The list of new features in WordPress 3.0 and is nice categorized here in WP Codex. I highly recommend taking a look at it.

Download WordPress 3.0

It looks like it’s gonna be a long night upgrading several of our WordPress blogs to 3.0. I will come back here with my impression on 3.0 as soon as I gain some experience with it.

Here is a WordPress 3.0 New Features Video

[via WordPress blog]

WordPress 3.0 Download is Here! + New Features - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/06/17 (RSS)

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We across this nasty error while working on a Windows hosting with Plesk interface.

Error: Download failed. Could not create Temporary file

I had given recursive 777 permissions to wp-content before this and still got the error.

The easy fix was to change the WP_TEMP_DIR setting in wp-config.php from

define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,ABSPATH.’wp-content/tmp/’);

to

define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’,ABSPATH.’wp-content/uploads/’);

Hope you found this useful! Check out our Top WordPress Plugins for some really good plugins you could use for your blog.

WordPress: Could Not Create Temporary File Error - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/05/07 (RSS)

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You may be familiar with seeing the earlier ‘Become a Fan’ button. It has been replaced by ‘Like’ button and it brings a lot more features with it.

And it’s not just that. There are a bunch of social plugins and developer access like Single Sign-on, account registration data, analytics, server side presentation, etc. are available now.

Facebook have made it extremely easy to add a ‘Like’ button to a website now.

With the Like button code installed in your webpage, a user logged in to Facebook can easily give your article or site a thumbs up and share it in their wall.

You can add a Facebook Like button to your self-hosted WordPress blog with this code snippet

Note: WordPress seems to convert the html even with a code snippet plugin. You can find the actual code here at this post.

You can also find instructions on how to do this for Blogger at Digital Inspiration.

Another cool new feature is Facebook Analytics. It gives you demographic information on who likes and shares your content and this could be valuable information for your website you didn’t have before.

Activity Widget shows near-realtime information on how readers are interacting with content in your site. also interesting is the Recommendations’ widget. It is kind of a popular posts section in WordPress only this is based on number of people who ‘liked’ stories on your blog.

Facebook has added some seriously cool social features to their API and I am getting ready to try them out. How about you?

How to Add Facebook Like Button to your Blog? - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/04/23 (RSS)

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In fact, Automattic just announced the release of WordPress 3.0 beta 1 and you can download it right now to try it.

But, remember it is not ready for production use!

WordPress 3.0 Features and Changes

• WordPress and WordPress MU to be merged
  The multi-user project WPMU and WordPress is becoming one! This will make creating sub-sites via sub-domains or sub directories very easy going forward. [how to]
• Custom Menus – need I say more?
• Custom Post Types – this feature will extend WordPress from being a blog to becoming more of a Content Management System without jumping through hoops.
• New Default Theme – not a huge change but remember how long the current default one has been the default. Twenty Ten is the new WordPress default theme now.
• Bulk Update of Plugins & Themes – huge time saver
• Custom Background
• Default Admin Username – one of the first things I do is to change the ‘admin’ user name in WordPress installs. Now, you can choose one while you install it.
• Custom Taxonomy UI for Pages as well as Posts

Again, remember this is an early beta but if you are a plugin/theme developer or just a curious George and would like to take a look at WordPress 3.0 beta 1, here is the download link

Download WordPress 3.0 Beta 1

What’s New in WordPress 3.0? - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/04/07 (RSS)

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Automattic has announced a WordPress.com branded solution called VaultPress for private beta. Matt Mullenweg from Automattic says

The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely secure, regardless of what happens. Today, this means every bit of content will be safe, from plugins and themes to the smallest comment or post revision, with WordPress-aware, real-time, multi-cloud backups. This is some of the most advanced technology I’ve seen interact with WordPress.

In the future, if your site is tampered with in any way, we’ll know within minutes and can take appropriate steps. The VaultPress core engine will be able to protect you against zero-day security vulnerabilities by updating your blog with hot-fixes, even while you sleep.

VaultPress is a premium solution with a price tag of $15-20 a month but promises to be different than the current WordPress solutions in the following ways

• Protection and powered by Automattic – that reliably serves 10 million blogs and 250 million monthly visitors
• Premium Service
• Easy setup and fliexible scaling – via a WordPress Plugin
• Tailored to WordPress
• Realtime, continuous monitoring
• Backed by WordPress experts

With more and more self-hosted WordPress powering entire websites (my wife’s service plug ) and not just blogs, it is about time we had a reliable backup solution and I am glad Automattic is offering this.

If your business website is powered by self-hosted WordPress, would you mind paying for such a comfort?

Would VaultPress become the best paid WordPress backup solution?

[via VaultPress blog]

Would VaultPress Become the Best Paid WordPress Backup Solution? - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/03/31 (RSS)

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BuddyPress reached version 1.0 last year but it was friendly only with the multi-use version of WordPress – WordPress MU. Those with single installations of WordPress, like myself, were unable to use BuddyPress with the same ease as WPMU users.

With the release of BuddyPress 1.2, single installations of WordPress can also use BuddyPress now for their forum needs.

We can install BuddyPress as just a plugin from within the WordPress installation. BuddyPress makes it very easy to integrate a forum in an existing WordPress blog.

And you can share your existing WordPress blog user base across your forum too, just like that. If you had tried to integrate user login with forum software like PHPbb or the like you might already know how painful that is.

BuddyPress makes that a breeze. But, there was one catch. BuddyPress comes with it’s own default theme and most WordPress single installation blogs already have their own themes.

The good news is that, Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress has created a WordPress plugin – BuddyPress Template Pack.

The Template Pack walks you through the theme additions step by step that adds the necessary configuration to your existing WordPress theme in a non-destructive way so you can back out if you don’t like it.

I can’t wait to try out BuddyPress integration shortly in some of our sites. How about you?

Try BuddyPress

BuddyPress Get WordPress Single Install Friendly - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/03/01 (RSS)

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You can blog on the go with WordPress app for Android.

WordPress has released version 1.0 of the WordPress app for Android. I am huge fan of the WordPress app for iPhone and the Android app looks very close to it.

WordPress for Android Features

• Configure and manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
• Create and edit posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

Here is a video of the app in action.

If you have been using the wpToGo app, it will be discontinued and WordPress for Android will be the app to have.

Go ahead and give it a spin!

Download WordPress for Android

[via WordPress for Android blog]

Write Posts On the Go With WordPress for Android - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2010/02/04 (RSS)

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BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications that grew out of the WordPress project.

BackPress includes a variety of foundations needed to build a robust, scalable web application as a core library package that anyone can use.

BackPress Features

• Logging
• User Roles and Capabilities (Permission systems)
• Database connections (across multiple servers and multiple datacenters)
• HTTP Transactions
• XML-RPC Server and Client
• Object caching
• Formatting
• XSS and SQL injection protection, including a variety of powerful escaping functions
• Taxonomies
• Options management

Look here to get a full list of BackPress features.

PHP world offers a lot of open source libraries that you can leverage to build your web application. But, if you have used WordPress or BuddyPress, you will feel right at home implementing some of the features you have grown to like in WordPress into your own next kickass web application.

Download BackPress

Power your PHP Web Application with BackPress - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/12/28 (RSS)

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You can read about WordPress 2.9 new features here.

Some of the cool new features I am excited about are

• Global undo/trash feature – no more accidental deleting of post, comments, etc.
• Built-in image editor – this is huge for me as I love to add images to every post I add
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking
• Easier video embedding
• Automatic database optimization support
• Custom post types
• Create custom galleries

Download WordPress 2.9

You can also watch a brief overview of new WordPress 2.9 features here.

Enjoy WordPress 2.9!

WordPress 2.9 Is Available for Download - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/12/20 (RSS)

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In the last 4 years, this is the first time WordPress has won this award. Plus, it was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category inching ahead of Joomla. And Drupal outranked it only by a small margin.

For those unaware, WordPress is an open source blogging platform that powers hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of websites including this one.

To even those who are familiar with WordPress, it is commonly known as a blogging platform. But, a little known fact is that WordPress can also be an excellent Content Management System.

WordPress has already gained a lot of momentum and exposure over the last few years and this award is going to give it a further push into being recognized as a CMS platform as well.

My wife recently launched her WordPress based web development business – KarShan Media (shameless plug) and she has been building websites with WordPress as a CMS for a long time. This award is going to make her life a tad bit easier convincing interested individuals that WordPress CAN power their website.

You can check out all the PacktPub awards for 2009 here.

Congratulations WordPress!

[via WordPress blog]

WordPress Wins Best Overall Open Source CMS Award - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/11/18 (RSS)

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Most recently, Twitter added goetagging to the tweets so you can look up tweets by location.

Now, my favorite open source blogging platform WordPress has enabled geolocation for bloggers hosting their blogs at WordPress.com. With this feature you can get answers to questions like

• Where was this post written?
• Where is the commenter located?
• Are there other WordPress.com bloggers near you?

How Do I Add GeoLocation?

If you have a blog at WordPress.com, you can start attaching location to individual blog posts. This will let your readers search posts from specific places.

Before you go whoa! why on earth would I want to do that, this is totally optional. If you don’t want to disclose locations, you don’t have to.

Let’s say you want to use this feature you can start using it in one of 2 ways. If you have a Geolocation aware browser, then all you have to do is confirm the location it detects or you can override that to enter it manually.

To start using geotagging, you have to go to Users -> Your Profile and enable it.

Right now, this geo tagging is limited only to blog posts and profiles on WordPress.com. But, support for commenter location, poll votes location, a live map view of blog updates, an annual report showing where your posts were written and where your comments came from are on the anvil.

Can I add GeoLocation to a hosted WordPress blog?

Hosted WordPress has not gotten this as a native feature and I haven’t seen this listed in WordPress 2.9 new features. May be I missed it.

But, you can get some of the geolocation features with a couple of plugins depending on the feature you are looking for.

• WP-Brighkite – You can locate authors using Brightkite
• Visitor Maps and Who’s Online
• GeoHTML.com GeoMarketing

If you are interested, I have put all my favorite WordPress plugins in nice categories in a page – Top WordPress Plugins.

If you are excited about geotagging, how do you see yourself using it in your WordPress blog?

[via Mashable]

WordPress.com Adds GeoLocation Feature - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/11/16 (RSS)

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms and is available in a hosted version at WordPress.com and as a free self-hosting version at WordPress.org.

WordPress 2.9 is the next version in the recent updates and I am pretty excited for a few of the features in the release. But, it is not as exciting as the huge changes in WordPress 2.7 but again that’s why it is a release update and not a version upgrade to 3 yet.

But there is still a slew of new features in this release and let’s take a look at some of them.

WordPress 2.9 New Features

• Post Thumbnails – With a simple filter in the template file you can add a post thumbnail from an image in many views such as index, archives, etc easily
• Image Editing – You can do basic image editing like rotate, crop, flip, etc right from your WordPress admin = faster blogging experience
• Media embeds – Easily embed videos from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion or any service that uses oEmbed standard in your posts. (Think Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin)
• Trash Status – Deleted posts, pages, comments are moved to a trash for you to recover quickly if you accidentally delete them
• Comment metadata – This basically means you (or a plugin) can do cool things with your comments data such as displaying popular comments, etc.
• User Registration via XMLRPC – You can now enable user registration through a XMLRPC client
• Gallery Shortcode – You can easily add a gallery attached to a post with a shortcode such as [ gallery ] It’s not new – Thanks Travis & Andrea
• Better Feedback – Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
• Plugin/Theme Editor Enhancement – Your scroll position is saved in plugin and theme editor which means no more trying to find the line you just edited!
• Auto Repair Tables – Added means of automatically repairing tables
• Canonical – Support for rel=Canonical for singular pages (Canonical?)

As you can see, as usual this WordPress update has a nice set of new features. I know some of us love frequent updates and new features and some of us hate it as it means frequent website updates.

Automatic upgrade introduced lately has been a great help for many (as long as you make a database and file system backup beforehand) and I have hardly seen any upgrade failure in the many WordPress upgrades my wife has been doing for her clients.

Although it needs my attention now with many new plugins I use, Top WordPress Plugins has been the most popular article in ShanKrila and I hope you will enjoy it too.

[via Dougal Campbell]

Top 10 WordPress 2.9 Features You Should Know - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/10/21 (RSS)

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And WordPress 2.8 beta 1 has been released! So, I grabbed a copy of it and installed it to take a look at what’s in store for us.

WordPress 2.8 New Features

WordPress lovers, we have a ton of new features/improvements although a lot of them subtle. I’ll try to highlight a few that I loved to see.  You can read the complete list at the WordPress blog linked at the bottom.

User Features

• Improved Admin icons
• Search/Install new Plugins/Themes from Admin
• Theme editor gets syntax highlighting
• Upto four columns for Dashboard widgets
• Post via e-mail – just set up an email account with POP3 access and go!
• Auto-save post/page with Ctrl+S
• Description field for tags
• Setting timezone made easy – choose a city in your timezone

Developer/Tech Features

• Improved database performance
• Using SimplePie for widget and dashboard feeds
• Using TinyMCE 3.2.3
• Better script loading performance
• Enhanced support for custom taxonomies
• Proxy support via wp-config.php – great for Intranet WordPress installs to get updates to plugins, themes, etc
• jQuery 1.3.2 with minify support
• New Widgets API
• Menu reordering via Plugin

WordPress is looking better than ever with 2.8! It’s great to see the community involvement and the fast release cycle. With the easy auto-update feature in WordPress 2.7+, I like the fast development cycle better than ever.

WordPress 2.8 beta 1 Features – full list

Download WordPress 2.8 beta 1

WordPress 2.8 New Features - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/05/18 (RSS)

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Their website is running on WordPress and here’s how we added Google Maps to their website.  Just note that these instructions are for self-hosted WordPress blogs only.

1. Get a Google Maps API Key from here. It’s as easy as logging in with your Google account.
2. Install Inline Google Maps WordPress plugin
3. Go to Plugin configuration page and enter the Google Maps API Key from step 1 and save it.

   

4. You can adjust your Maps dimensions for your site here:  it defaults to 500px by 300px.
5. Go to Google Maps, find the place you want in the map, adjust the zoom and double click on the place you want to be in the center of the map. (or right click on the pin and choose to center map here)
6. On the top-right corner, find the ‘Link’ button and copy the link there. You may have to play with this a little bit to get it right. Try generating links at various zoom level and check how it shows up in your website.

   

7. Now go to the page you want to insert the Google Maps
8. Type in a text you want to appear in the marker in the map like ‘Discover Smiles’ and add the link you copied in step 6

   

9. Make sure you give the link a title of ‘googlemap’ (you can enter a title of ‘googlemap;nocontrol’ if you don’t want an interactive map)
10. Publish your page and you are done!

Hope the above steps weren”t too hard to follow. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions.

You can also add various options to the map via plugin parameters. Also check out Avi’s post linked at the bottom if you are looking to add more bubbles, features to the map.

[via Avi Alkalay

How to Add Google Maps in a WordPress Site? - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/05/08 (RSS)

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Recently I stumbled across the DrupalCon DC Website. It is the official website for the Drupal Conference held in Washington DC in March.

Now that the conference is over, the website has now been transformed into a goldmine of Drupal information.

Videos of more than 100 presentations are now freely available in this website. The sessions were given by Drupal experts on various aspects of Drupal in the conference.

Even though I have been using this site for weeks, my aha moment to post about it here came when I saw a mention of it in the official Drupal blog this morning.

Drupal Videos

Here are some of the sessions I enjoyed so far:

• Drupal Module Development Kickstart
• Totally Rocking your Development Environment
• Protect your site from hackers: Introduction to Security
• Backend Drupal Performance Optimization and Tuning: a guide for everyone
• SEO & Drupal: Search Engine Optimization Tips, Tricks and Best Practices
• Drush – command line Drupal productivity
• Optimizing your LAMP stack for Drupal
• Learning jQuery UI

A lot of these videos gave me really good insights into parts of the Drupal that would have taken me weeks to gather from reading the manuals. Plus, I learn the best by examples so sessions like these and pieces of code from blog tutorials are what I like the best.

Plus, imagine having access to every session from this popular conference that you can now view from the comfort of your desk!

If you are just starting to work with Drupal, give yourself some time to learn the ropes. It opens up a lot of possibilities with Drupal.

Go to DrupalCon DC Website

Giveaway: Enter to win a Comodo AntiVirus & Firewall Pro License ($39.99 value)

Goldmine of Drupal Videos – DrupalCon DC Website - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/04/17 (RSS)

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I use Twitter

• to network with fellow bloggers
• find up-to-date information on breaking news
• to follow interesting personalities & draw inspiration/motivation from them (like my buddy @MattJabs)
• share the tons of interesting links I come across that will take too much time to blog about
• keep myself up to date with certain interests without flooding my feed reader
• and sometimes just to have fun

With the recent blog re-design, I also wanted to find my readers on Twitter. Some of you I follow and converse on Twitter might have found me though this blog. But, I am sure there are still a lot of you I probably don’t know or interact on Twitter.

That’s why I fell in love with this WordPress plugin – WP-Twitip-ID that let me integrate Twitter into the Comments section.

When you leave a comment here, you can also enter your Twitter ID and it will show up like this. I am going to be able to see that and follow you. So can the other readers.

Let’s see how to do this quickly.

Integrate Twitter ID into WordPress Comments

• Grab and install the WP-Twitip-ID WordPress Plugin
• Activate the WP-Twitip-ID plugin
• Go to the plugin Settings page
• Set where you want the Twitter ID field to appear. It defaults to after the url field and it is usually fine.
• Now edit your comments.php file to add the code where you want the Twitter ID to appear in the comments.

WP-Twitip-ID can automatically insert the Twitter field in the comment form for you through Javascript. But, it didn’t work too well for me so I just added the field manually to the comment form in comments.php.

How I did it?

I opened up my comments.php and to add the Twitter ID field in the comment form, I added a line similar to the url field with the appropriate values after the line which displays the url field in the comment form.

Next, I found out where the date is displayed in the comment loop and added a line next to it to display the Twitter id.

If the styles don’t appear right, just make sure you are using the same class as your other input fields.

This is just a quick overview. You can get the various options, variables & juicy details here at the WP-Twitip-ID plugin page.

Download WP-Twitip-ID

How to Integrate Twitter into WordPress Comments? - Originally published at ShanKrila.com on 2009/02/26 (RSS)

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