Sometimes you want to change the way wordpress search works, for example you want it to force to search pages only or just posts. The code for that would be something like this

//Search only pages
function is_type_page() {
global $post;
if ($post->post_type == 'page') {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}}

//Search only posts
function is_type_post() {
global $post;
if ($post->post_type == 'post') {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}}

Then in the search page, i.e search.php just use this code

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
if (is_type_post()) continue;

Above code will restrict search to the pages only. Similarly you can restrict pages to be excluded from search with the following code

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
if (is_type_page()) continue;

Hope that helps

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.

Fahd Murtaza

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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.

However the best feature I think is the auto detection of relevant images to your blog post. Images can really enlighten the posts and make them more interesting.

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.

The Old version of wordpress i.e. 2.3.3

The new cool thing wordpress i.e. 2.5

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)..

Downloads:

Version 0.5 (RAR): Click here to download .rar of WordPress Plugin: Get recent posts from two categories

Version 0.5 (RAR): Click here to download .zip of WordPress Plugin: Get recent posts from two categories

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 approachable by the users of the site.

This Flickr example is just to mention how social networking helps people to collaborate and find the things of their interests. Social networks like Orkut, Facebook, MySpace and lots more are being used by Millions of Surfers on daily basis to enjoy the Social Web.

Another popular web 2.0 application is blogging engines. Yeah you are reading this text on a blog too that is off course my personal one. What if you want to enjoy the social features of the web for your blog. You wanna be heard right? So use social bookmarking. WordPress blogging engine, which runs most of this website is a great tool for blogging, in fact for content publishing so what if you like to use social bookmarking for your blog. There are several plugins available for social bookmarking but yeah as usual I am writing about a simple and usable one.

Use

Sociable

Social bookmarking sites allow web surfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.

If you’d like to keep up with Sociable development, you can read the tagged posts on this blog (feed). Or just read all of this blog, I swear it’s so amazing you’ll be sneezing rainbows.

Download, Upgrading, Installation

Download Sociable 2.0 (released 2007-02-02)

To upgrade, first deactivate Sociable and remove the sociable directory, then follow the install instructions.

Read the rest about Sociable here.

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.

Just finished the wordpress theme called 6seconds

the links to respective themed wordpress blogs are

Six Seconds Press Room and their 6seconds.org Blog

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.

•  More and more incoming links to your blog/site.
• neat clean directory like URLs for your pages.
• No redirections.
• Table less structure to ensure search engines see the text version of your site easily and dont get confused with the text formating on your sit. ( Yeah its important!)
• Quality /niche oriented / keyword specific content on a page.

The general rule is that the better content your site contains then the more highly ranked in search results it will become. The tricky part is how to relay that information to the search engine crawlers and robots without getting yourself into hot water during the undertaking. How does one accomplish this effectively without risking negative repercussions? This is where WordPress plugins again become indispensable as many are set up to safely optimize your ranking without bending or breaking rules to try to cheat the structure entirely.

Here are a few examples of plugins you can confidently use for that pursuit:

1. All In One SEO Pack. This plugin does a huge amount of work in making your blog more search engine friendly. One of its best features is the ability to create META tags in all of your posts, even the ones made before the plugin was installed. You can also manually toggle the keywords for each post or page or create a list from the content of your categories. Overall this plugin gives you a very high degree of control over how each post or page is presented to a potential search engine spider without offering risky options and even giving users the opportunity to remove duplicate content before the site is indexed. This plugin would be the first to install or the only if you’re looking for an all inclusive solution that adequately handles nearly all of your SEO needs.

2. Headspace2. Headspace2 also deals with tagging and a myriad of other SEO tasks but it has some extras that make it worth investigating. One of its most powerful features is its ability to make per page/post changes like enabling otherwise disabled plugins on a per post basis. It can also theme specific pages with very little effort on the admin side. Headspace2 can also handle things like nested keywords and cleaning up affiliate links.

3. SEO Slugs. This plugin does a simple job but one that is pretty vital to SEO work: it removes common words like conjunctions from post slugs to make them more search engine friendly. It can make a post that initially looks like: a-search-engine-is-an-indispensable-friend into search-engine-is-indispensable-friend. While it may appear as line trash to the human eye, spiders unaware of the subtleties of English grammar and tense will eat these titles up.

4. Google XML Sitemaps Generator. This fella will generate a map of all of the pages on your WP site in a manner that allows more efficient crawling by not only Google but other engines that adopted the XML sitemap protocol including Yahoo! and Ask.com. This is a great idea because it utilizes a protocol approved by the big guns instead of trickery.

5. AskApache Search Engine Verify. This plugin allows the creation of verification codes from both Yahoo! and Google to enhance the validity of your site and to assist in correcting past wrongdoings if you’ve recently purchased a domain that may have gotten in trouble with either engine prior to your ownership. This becomes more important when you’re purchasing domains with the intent to have them appear more relevant to the big boys: it is likely that someone had the same idea and possibly gave your new home a criminal record. You lose nothing either way and have a lot to gain by adding this one to your site.

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!

You can download it here.

Best Regards,
Fahd Murtaza