This is Fahd Murtaza's Blog. Fahd works as a freelance web developer. He is a PHP expert with over 7 years of experience working in diverse web development projects ranging from personal website to huge CMS & CRM systems.
// March 17th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // PHP, Portfolio, Web Development, Wordpress
Hi guys
I am feeling good right now. Have been working on oDesk from Feb 17, 2009. And its good you get paid on hourly basis. I like oDesk the most among freelancing sites I have worked on. Anyhow, I took a few screen shots to show you that I was once featured on home page on oDesk.
// September 9th, 2008 // No Comments » // Blogging Engines, Open Source, PHP, Plugins, Wordpress
Enhance your blog posts with Yahoo! Shortcuts.
If your content regularly mentions some companies regularly, Yahoo shortcuts can bring up latest financial information related to that company.
Relevant search results would also come up for certain terms like in the image shown UNIX Pipes would pop up a Yahoo shortcut with relevant contextual search results. Some bloggers may find some shortcuts annoying and irrelevant to their blogs content, but some might really find it useful. It all depends on what you blog about. (more…)
// March 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // Blogging Engines, Open Source, PHP, Wordpress
Yeah as always I am one complete day late to know about the new release of wordpress. Its really cool. I just downloaded and installed it. As its famous for its 5 minutes install; it has great new features and a neat and clean interface, I think a hundred times better than the previous version thats 2.3 if I am not wrong (2.3.3), yeah I just checked as I am writing this post on the old platform and I just needed to scroll down this post window (my wordpress blog is an auto install by Fantastico provided by my host in Cpanel)
Anyhow right now I am playing with the latest version (2.5) and its simply awesome.
See the difference. Its just obvious. Its on full page for this blog post. (more…)
// March 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // Blogging Engines, Open Source, PHP, Plugins, Web 2.0, Web Development, Web Development Software, Wordpress
OK I usually work on the wordpress stuff and do all the fancy things with wordpress on these two Blogs of Josh Freedman
His press room at http://www.6seconds.org/press/
His blog is at http://6seconds.org/blog/
I spent my times for release and support my plugin. If you like my plugin and enjoy the support, do consider to make a donation to me. Thank you 
. I am available for hire too 
You can view the plugin working at his press room at http://www.6seconds.org/press/
Its showing the 2 different categories’ recent posts. The number of the posts can be defined in the plugin’s only php file.
OK how to do such thing?
I am going to release a modified generic open source version if Josh allows me.
Update 1:33 AM : Yeah he allows me so here is the download material (on full post page).. (more…)
// February 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Open Source, Plugins, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web Development Software, Wordpress
Do you wanna be social? Are you social on the web? Is your website in accordance with the “social” requirements as laid out by the web 2.0 standard. Do you want to say “yeah” but are afraid of saying it as it might be wrong as you still dont know what exactly 2.0 is. OK, let me add something (thats not new off course but clarifies a little about the social aspect of the web). The web 2.0 is about the usability factor of the web. Sites like Flickr and Google calendar are a very good example of usability. Both have social factors about them. Like on Flickr, people can comment on your photos, photos that you want to share. Also you can post photos to your blog right from your Flickr account and there are dozens of good services that can be integrated with Flickr through an API provided by Flickr. It uses AJAX for making it more usable but yeah the Social Factor like submitting your photos to public groups of similar interests make it (more…)
// January 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // A theme a day, Blogging Engines, CSS, Open Source, PHP, Themes, WP Theme Agent, Web Development, Web Development Software, Wordpress
Check my latest quote “A wordpress theme a day doesn’t keeps a geek away! “, yeah off course to serve my fellow wordpress community and my loving wordpress blogging engine. All the wordpress geeks a very well aware of the fact that how cool wordpress theming can be, I would rather boast there is no better theming engine for blogs out there. Anyone with normal PHP understanding can easily customize a theme for their blog or even get a pre-done template and convert it into wordpress theme with few easy steps.
// January 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // General, PHP, Themes, Web Development, Web Development Software, Wordpress
Just finished the wordpress theme called 6seconds
the links to respective themed wordpress blogs are
Six Seconds Press Room and their 6seconds.org Blog
// December 20th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Articles, Blogging Engines, General, Open Source, Plugins, SEO, Wordpress
Letting the world know about your blog is one of the trickier aspects of starting a new blog or getting people notice one that you’ve been working on. This is so-called search engine optimization or SEO. Google is the most obvious target for these efforts as it dominates the search market and is the default search engine for popular browsers like Firefox. Moreover of you open up the browser and you have nothing particular in mind, the most probable site you type in address bar is google.com yeah I know it 
. Google rules the SEO tech world and everybosy wants to be in google SERPS (Search engine result pages). Working around the rules that keep Google and other search engines relevant is arcane at best and at worst will result in your sites being demoted in relevance or delisted entirely. Yep that happens. I have learnt it from my best and worst SEO experiences. There are many theorists and companies that indulge in this sort of speculation and some are more successful than others at nudging search results in the ways they desire them to.
Well guys (not to mention the girls) , SEO is what can be called the ” The most desirable feature/quality (whatever you name it) of a website. To me there are two points about SEO.
// June 28th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Blogging Engines, Open Source, PHP, Plugins, Web Development, Wordpress
Hi everyone! I thought its a better idea to release my new wordpress plugin called “Multi Column Author List”. Give it a download and try it on your wordpress customised blogs. I hope it would be useful for many of you! (more…)
// June 23rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Blogging Engines, Open Source, PHP, Wordpress
Get Author Profile is a pretty basic WordPress plugin that lets you manually access an author’s (i.e. user’s) profile. The main purpose is to let you provide author information outside The Loop, such as for a sidebar intro of the blog owner or to list contributors to your blog.
(Note to WordPress 1.2 users: This is now a WordPress 1.5+ plugin. See the July 9th update.)
When the get_author_profile() function is called with a specific numeric User ID, you can make use of global variables related to that author’s profile, or alternatively display their information with the function author_profile().
