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May be you are developing a plugin or a theme and it has something to do with handing some pagination of your custom tables data. Here’s how we can simply manage it, I am not going to build all the admin panel stuffs, but just showing you the process.

Step 1:

Lets get the page number from the url query string. If we don’t find anything, we’ll set the page number to 1.

$pagenum = isset( $_GET['pagenum'] ) ? absint( $_GET['pagenum'] ) : 1;

Step 2:

Now we need to set per page entry limit and the page offset. We will use the limit and offset to get data from our MySQL query. If you are confused about the offset, may be you’ve seen it on PHPMyAdmin like this: "SELECT * FROM `table_name` LIMIT 0, 10". Here, we are getting the first 10 entries from our database. If we want get the next 10 entries, our limit will be "LIMIT 10, 10". So the first digit for the limit is the offset. It tells us from where we’ll get our next entries.

$limit = 10;
$offset = ( $pagenum - 1 ) * $limit;

So, by this two lines we are setting the limit and our offset dynamically. Read the rest of this entry »

What? What did you said on the title? Well, I am not sure this is an appropriate title. But I am going to explain it to you.

Lets say, you are making a theme or a WordPress plugin and you want to show something in the admin panel like this:

We will see how can you add those columns to the admin panel tables and manipulate data on the table rows. Well, this is very easy to do, because WP has a really nice API to work with.

Now we will add those two columns to our admin panel’s post listing table. Here is the code:

<?php
function test_modify_post_table( $column ) {
    $column['test_budget'] = 'Budget';
    $column['test_expires'] = 'Expires';

    return $column;
}
add_filter( 'manage_posts_columns', 'test_modify_post_table' );

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Today I am coming with a new wordpress plugin, named “WordPress User Frontend“. Some of us want something like that the subscriber/contributor will not be able to go in the wordpress backend and everything these user can control will be done from wordpress frontend.

Features:

So here is my plugin that solves your problem. This features of this plugin in it’s version 0.2 are follows:

• User can create a new post and edit from frontend
• They can view their page in the custom dashboard
• Users can edit their profile
• Administrator can restrict any user level to access the wordpress backend (/wp-admin)
• New posts status, submitted by users are configurable via admin panel. i.e. Published, Draft, Pending
• Admin can configure to receive notification mail when the users creates a new post.
• Configurable options if the user can edit or delete their posts.
• Users can upload attachments from the frontend
• Admins can manage their users from frontend
• Pay per post or subscription on posting is possible

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Today I worked with a wordpress site Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance, which is a complete Bangla language based site. You can translate with the Bangla language pack, but you can’t convert the English digits to it’s corresponding Bangla digit. So I visited the wordpress codex and found some filters that can do that job very easily.

Here is your function that will convert the digit

/**
 * This function converts all english number's to bangla number
 */
function make_bangla_number($str)
{
	$engNumber = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0);
	$bangNumber = array('১','২','৩','৪','৫','৬','৭','৮','৯','০');
	$converted = str_replace($engNumber, $bangNumber, $str);

	return $converted;
}

Now we need to add some filters that will hook to this places and convert the digit’s to Bangla.

add_filter( 'get_the_time', 'make_bangla_number' );
add_filter( 'the_date', 'make_bangla_number' );
add_filter( 'get_the_date', 'make_bangla_number' );
add_filter( 'comments_number', 'make_bangla_number' );
add_filter( 'get_comment_date', 'make_bangla_number' );
add_filter( 'get_comment_time', 'make_bangla_number' );

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Hello there, another wp plugin from me . I was thinking to be a Freelancer.com affiliate (previous GetAFreelancer) and  looking for some wordpress widget as I want to show the links in my blog sidebar. I found a plugin built by Masnun bro, but it gets related projects from freelancer.com according to your post and shows below of your post . So i thought, why i don’t I built one before anyone creates before me? . So here is the plugin screenshot:

Widget setting screenshot

So i don’t need to describe what to do after installing the plugin, right? It’ll show the selected links to your sidebar like this:

Displaying links from freelancer.com

So why don’t you add this plugin to your blog and make some money?

What is Google Transliterate?

Google offers an automatic transliteration option that converts Roman characters to the characters used in Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. This feature lets you type these languages phonetically in English letters, but they’ll appear in their correct alphabet. Keep in mind that transliteration is different from translation; the sound of the words is converted from one alphabet to the other, not the meaning.

What I did?
I did a integration of Google Transliterate with WordPress & punBB. My plugin allows you to write phonetically with the help of Google Transliteration in the WordPress post editor and also in punBB post box. This will not work in rich text editor mode in wordpress, you need to switch on HTML mode.

How does it work?
The bellow images tells you everything

• You can select your desired language from the list



• After Selecting the language, active the google transliteration option by clicking the text.



• Type the words phonetically. Once you type a space or a punctuation mark, the letters will be converted to corresponding language characters, like this:



• If you need to correct a transliterated word, click the word; you’ll see a menu of alternate spellings, in addition to an option to switch back to the Roman characters you typed. If you type the same word again, it will then be transliterated correctly based on your saved preference.

Download Google Tranliteration for Wordpress (338)
Download Google Tranliteration for punBB (281)

Recently I thought to make a wordpress plugin, but was not getting any idea about what to make? I asked Lenin vai for some idea and that was not a bad one

I named it, sorry that name was also given by Lenin vai, ha ha ha. It’s name is “Custom Content Gallery”. It’s work is simple, it will just show some latest title and description from some chosen category. You just need to insert the shortcode/keyword

[custom_gallery cat="1, 2, 3"]

. Here “1, 2, 3” is the category ID. So that post/page will show the latest 5 posts from each category. That was a very simple plugin and yeah, it’s size is under 1024 bytes

Wordpress Custom Content Gallery