Fetching Comments of a particular user

$args = array( 'number' => 10, 'status' => 'approve', 'user_id' => 1 );
$comments_list_by_user = get_comments( $args );
print_r ( $comments_list_by_user );

Fetching Comments of a particular post

$args = array( 'number' => 10, 'status' => 'approve', 'post_id' => 30 );
$comments_list_post = get_comments( $args );
print_r ( $comments_list_post );

Fetching Comments of a particular category

Here is how you can fetch comments for a specific category:

// Posts per page setting
$ppp = get_option('posts_per_page'); // either use the WordPress global Posts per page setting or set a custom one like $ppp = 10;
$custom_offset = 0; // If you are dealing with your custom pagination, then you can calculate the value of this offset using a formula

// category (can be a parent category)
$category_parent = 3;

// lets fetch sub categories of this category and build an array
$categories = get_terms( 'category', array( 'child_of' => $category_parent, 'hide_empty' => false ) );
$category_list =  array( $category_parent );
foreach( $categories as $term ) {
 $category_list[] = (int) $term->term_id;
}

// fetch posts in all those categories
$posts = get_objects_in_term( $category_list, 'category' );

$sql = "SELECT comment_ID, comment_date, comment_content, comment_post_ID
 FROM {$wpdb->comments} WHERE
 comment_post_ID in (".implode(',', $posts).") AND comment_approved = 1
 ORDER by comment_date DESC LIMIT $ppp OFFSET $custom_offset";

$comments_list = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );

if ( count( $comments_list ) > 0 ) {
 $date_format = get_option( 'date_format' );
 echo '<ul>';
 foreach ( $comments_list as $comment ) {
 echo '<li>Comment: '.substr( $comment->comment_content, 0, 50 ).'..<br />'.date( $date_format, strtotime( $comment->comment_date ) ).'<br />Post: <a href="'.get_permalink( $comment->comment_post_ID ).'">'.get_the_title( $comment->comment_post_ID ).'</a></li>';
 }
 echo '</ul>';
} else {
 echo '<p>No comments</p>';
}
?>

What we have done here is that, first we fetch sub categories of the category specified so as to include comments on those posts too which are under a sub-category of the specified category. Then we build an array of all these categories, where we need to look up for comments. Then we fetch the posts ID under those categories and then we use a query to fetch the comments on those posts. Finally, we display them as per our need by iterating $comments_list.

In case you want to fetch the comments of a  particular user under a specific category, then you can just change the SQL query in the above code to this:

$user_id = 1; // change this to the user ID either manually or let it come from some other code
$sql = "SELECT comment_ID, comment_date, comment_content, comment_post_ID
 FROM {$wpdb->comments} WHERE
 comment_post_ID in (".implode(',', $posts).") AND comment_approved = 1 AND user_id = $user_id
 ORDER by comment_date DESC LIMIT $ppp OFFSET $custom_offset";

I have used simple names for variables here to make it easy to understand. Always take care to provide your code in its own namespace, choose unique (non-generic) names. Read prefix everything in WordPress.

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Some of the users who quickly upgraded might be facing issues because of a silly mistake on my part. If the plugin has disappeared from the plugins listing, then you would have to delete the folder “facebook-like-thumbnail” folder in your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/) and then reinstall the plugin by typing “Facebook Like Thumbnail” in Add New Plugins screen. I apologise for the issue, please excuse me, I am not used to pushing updates to public repositories.

The plugin now features an options pages which can be found under Settings > Facebook Like Thumbnail. You can specify your default thumbnail image on that page, no more code edits are required. This was a necessary move as the users would have to edit the plugin to specify their default image after every upgrade.

The plugin now supports featured thumbnails and NextGEN galleries (other than the slideshow ones).

The plugin picks the thumbnail in the following order (whichever is found first)

• If its a post or page
  • Featured Thumbnail
  • First Image in the post
  • Default
• If its a Front Page or Search Page
  • Default
• Anything else
  • First image in the first post of the loop
  • Default

Facebook Like Thumbnail

Author: Ashfame, version: 0.2, updated: April 16, 2011,
Requires WP version: 2.7 or higher, tested up to: 3.1.4.
Download (18 990 hits) (23 votes)

Adding the author avatar on author pages to be used as thumbnail and ignoring smilies as a possible match for thumbnail are on my To-do lists. If you have any suggestions, comments section is all yours.

Also the plugin can be totally uninstalled by using the delete option from WordPress dashboard, it won’t leave anything behind in the database.

I have tried to keep the plugin as fast as it can be. If any developer can provide any suggestions/improvements, I would love that. If you have any questions or facing any issues because of the early upgrade or need any help, give me a shout in the comments.

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Here for the sake of explanation of approach, I am making the content paginated where content is already paginated. We will make our extra content work in order to the global $paged variable.

<?php
// Posts Per Page option
$ppp = get_option('posts_per_page');

if (!is_paged()) {
	$custom_offset = 0;
} else {
	$custom_offset = $ppp*($paged-1);
}

// Lets suppose we are querying for posts of a certain author in a particular category
$args = array(
'numberposts' => $ppp,
'offset' => $custom_offset,
'category' => 7, // Category ID of category 'Articles'
'author' => $author_id
);

$posts_data = get_posts( $args );

if ( count( $posts_data ) > 0 ) {
	echo '<ul>';
	foreach ( $posts_data as $post ) {
		echo '<li><a href="'.get_permalink( $post->ID ).'">'.$post->post_title.'</a></li>';
	}
	echo '</ul>';
} else {
	echo '<p>No articles by this user</p>';
}
?>

This way the code make use of the global $paged variable to see which page it is on, and set the value of offset accordingly making the fetched content using get_posts itself paginated. On Page 1, the offset will be zero, it will fetch the posts limited by the posts per page value and on Page 2, the offset will be calculated to leave the posts already shown on previous page and query further posts limited by the posts per page value.

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We too can use this easily in our shell scripts. It supports more functionality if you are working in Python or C (Read Ubuntu NotifyOSD) but for shell scripts it does the pretty fine job too, if you just want to make Ubuntu work for you.

Using NotifyOSD in shell scripts

Make sure you have libnotify-bin installed, if not, just install it by typing the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

notify-send – Program to send desktop notifications

With notify-send you can sends desktop notifications to the user via a notification daemon from the command line. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user’s way.

Check out the man page for it, to see the options it has to offer – man notify-send

Enter this in a terminal, notify-send “Hello” “this is just a test” and you will see the notification appearing up on your desktop.I usually collect icons that I would like to use and then use them in notification bubbles in the following manner:

In terminal, you can use it like

notify-send -t 2000 -i /home/ashfame/Dropbox/Ubuntu/icons/console.png "Hello Ashfame" "This is your computer, lets start with work"

In a shell script, use it like (take care of the screen where you want to display the message – I am on a dual screen setup)

DISPLAY=:0 notify-send -t 2000 -i /home/ashfame/Dropbox/Ubuntu/icons/console.png "Hello Ashfame" "This is your computer, lets start with work"

Time parameter (-t) lets you specify the time in miliseconds after which the notification will fade away. Its affected with a bug right now (will work on the default timeout even if you set it, but will be fixed in upcoming releases anyway, so better use it).

Icon parameter (-i) is used to specify the icon which is to be used in the notification.

You can also use it to notify you when a certain command has completed in the terminal, like when you were compiling some code or anything which takes a good amount of time so that you can get to know the moment it is ready. As an example, you can use it like

make && notify-send "DONE"

Making practical use of NotifyOSD using notify-send

You can create shell scripts for additional functionality you want, right? Just use notify-send where you want you to be informed or alerted.

Here are the examples, where I use them:

1. WordPress new version alert
2. Alert if my site is down
3. Health check – Tells me to take breaks, sleep at night and if I resist, lock the screen
4. Pomodoro technique for quantizing time for increasing productivity
5. Random fun facts from randomfunfacts.com

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Install LAMP stack

Fire up a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and enter this command:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Enter y for yes when it asks to continue after estimation of how much data will be downloaded and how much will be used on disk.

It will install quickly and can take a few minutes depending on your internet speed, and then it will ask you to setup the password for MySQL user root. It is usually left blank on localhost machines as they are used only for development purposes but last time I left it blank, I had to deal with the issues that it didn’t change the password to blank but has something else and I had to turn off the password prompt for root access. Avoid doing all that by just selecting “root” or anything you want as the password of the root user of MySQL.

Confirm it once (Type the password and press Tab key).

and you are done.

Test Apache Webserver

Just open http://localhost/ in your browser and it will show up a message “It works!” which means Apache is working fine.

Test PHP

Create a file named phpinfo.php in /var/www/ to check if PHP is working fine.

sudo nano /var/www/phpinfo.php

Enter the content as <?php phpinfo(); ?> and save the file by hitting Ctrl + X and then y (for yes) and return key (enter).

Restart Apache webserver by the following command – sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now open http://localhost/phpinfo.php and it will show up a page with lots of php related information, if you can see it, PHP is working fine.

Install phpMyAdmin

Enter this command in terminal – sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql phpmyadmin

Select Apache as the web server by pressing Space and then Tab key and press enter key.

Press Yes to configure database for phpmyadmin.

Provide password which we set as “root” earlier.

Again, enter “root“.

Confirm it, and then you are done.

Test phpMyAdmin

Now open http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ in your brower to access phpmyadmin and you can login with username and password both as root.

Pretty quick & easy!

Everything is done, you have your web root at /var/www/ where you will need super user permissions to write files, I will do a follow up post on how you can make this easier by keeping your files in your Home directory instead and a bit of extra which will make it totally complete.

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But sometimes it might happen that the spam blog site might be getting indexed quicker than the original site when your original site is pretty much new, so it can be a temporary hold for your organic traffic growth. In such case, we can deal with them by delaying the feeds for a certain amount of time as all these scrappers work by pulling articles from your feeds and then publishing your articles on their site.

Delay publishing of WordPress Feeds:

Here is the snippet with you can delay your feeds for (lets say 15 minutes):

/**
 * Publish the content in the feed 15 minutes later
 * $where ist default-var in WordPress (wp-includes/query.php)
 * This function an a SQL-syntax
 */
function publish_later_on_feed($where)
{
	global $wpdb;
	if ( is_feed() )
	{
		// timestamp in WP-format
		$now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
		// value for wait; + device
		$wait = '15'; // integer
		// http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_timestampdiff
		$device = 'MINUTE'; //MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR
		// add SQL-sytax to default $where
		$where .= " AND TIMESTAMPDIFF($device, $wpdb->posts.post_date_gmt, '$now') > $wait ";
	}
	return $where;
}
add_filter('posts_where', 'publish_later_on_feed');

This will delay the feeds for 15 minutes (Line 14 in the code) before any new article appears in it. This is a very good approach in killing those automated blogs. But sometimes it can be the case, that they are not automated. Its humans manually copy-pasting the articles from various sources. In such a case, what you can do is to make your blog ping the crawl bots so that your chances of getting indexed first is maximised.

Checklist for fast indexing:

• Submit a Sitemap to Google Webmasters.
• Use PushPress and RSS Cloud WordPress plugin.
• Use WordPress option to ping pinging service and add several multiple pinging service there (less effective now but doing it won’t harm)
• Delay your feeds for a few minutes (Scrappers won’t be manually monitoring your site every minute)

Hope that helps you defeat those blood sucking scrappers. If you have any questions or tip, feel free to leave it in the comments below.

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For the purpose of this post, I assume that you are ready running the Last.fm scrobbler (tool which sends your music statistics to Last.fm). In the menu, select Tools, and then options.

In options, select Connection from the left. Click on Manual proxy settings and fill in the IP address and port of the proxy server.

However note that only US / UK / Germany based proxy will work. Learn how to find a good and fast proxy server IP address & port.

Now you can enjoy free Internet radio without subscribing to their service. But I would suggest if you really enjoy their service, you should subscribe (its only 3USD/month). But I guess their policy of making users pay who are outside of US, UK & Germany sort of turn people off to subscribe. They shouldn’t discriminate on the basis of geographical locations. After all, its love for music.

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Here is a screenshot of how the new like would show up on your profile:

I don’t like the move as people tend to like a lot more stuff than what they share. This is going to stuff the stream with lots of noise. After like is not, and can’t be equivalent to share. I might like a post on Ubuntu tutorial but is that something I would want to share with everyone else. No! But that’s totally a different story.

Coming back to the point, many sites would show up random image of their page instead of an appropriate image. I have seen this on several blogs including mine, that sometimes an advertisement image would show up (from the sidebar), or a totally unrelated image of my another project (from the footer). so, I took this opportunity today to fix it for everyone.

You can check what thumbnail would Facebook show for a particular page by using their Lint tool.

The problem can be solved for non-WordPress based or html sites or whatever, by adding this line to their head section.

<link rel="image_src" href="http://example.com/logo.png" />

This will show that image on every page. But in WordPress, we can do a lot more, that’s because WordPress is a brilliant piece of software.

You can use the plugin to fix the issue. It will display the first image of the post or page you are on. In case someone likes your Category or Tag page, then the first image of the first post in the listing will be used.

You will need to edit a line which is highlighted in the code below to change the default fallback image to your logo so that whenever, the post doesn’t have any image in it, your logo will be displayed. If you don’t edit that line, then my logo will be displayed and I might sue you for that.

I have added a couple of features in the plugin, so I don’t recommend you to use the snippet anymore. Using the plugin will make it easier for you to receive updates without touching any code. WordPress Facebook Like Thumbnail Plugin v0.2

In case, you don’t want to download yet another plugin, you can add the following code in your functions.php file I recommend everyone to use the plugin version instead so that you can receive updates automatically.

Facebook crawls your page every 24 hours (at max), so you may not see the change right away but you would see it instantaneously, if you use the Linter tool once for that page because it updates the thumbnail for that page, right away.

I might add an options page for it to add an image if users request start coming up. Also I will host it on WordPress repositories once I get the time to, as I will need to look into it first.

If you have any question, you can ask in the comments. Also, please like it (not share) to share it with other fellow bloggers.

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What generally people do is to open a proxy site in which they type in the web address or URL they want to access and then the page is displayed in the browser by the proxy server and all the link on the page are converted so that further requests when a user clicks on a link are routed & served by the proxy server only. But some desktop applications can also make use of proxy servers by configuring the options to route their requests to a proxy server for which you need the IP Address and Port number of the proxy server and login credentials (username & password), in case the proxy server is a private server and not open for general public. Example: Web browsers, FTP clients, Torrent clients, Media players etc

And sometimes there is even a need of a country based proxy because services like Last.fm streams free internet radio to users from US, UK & Germany. There can be several examples.

Whenever you need a good and stable proxy server, you can get a list at HideMyAss.com. The page itself keeps on updating the status of proxy servers.

You can filer proxy server listing by based on their location i.e. country, the port they run on (some applications only accept a proxy on a particular port or don’t let you change it)

How to find a good proxy server?

If you observe the list, there are a lot of options to choose from. Good thing, but with more options comes the problem of picking up a good one. So, I will give you a quick tip to pick up a fast & speedy proxy server.

If you see the list, there are two bars which show the health of the proxy server. First one shows the speed and the other shows the connection time. So only look for those which show green state and hence are a good option. But chose those which are not completely green but those which are a little less because they are less likely to get a stream of more users and should sustain for more time before they go busy and stop working for you, hence you will need to make less switches as compared to picking up which is already stuffed by users. Moreover some web services might put up a restriction on users who might be using their service from the same IP (proxy server).

And also I would recommend to avoid using proxy servers for transferring any sensitive data like your gmail accounts, bank accounts etc. You can never be sure what they can do (I mean they are technically feasible of saving what data you pass through them which means your login credentials are exposed. If you have any questions, feel free to give me a shout in the comments.

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Kontactr WordPress Plugin
Plugin URI: http://blog.ashfame.com/?p=880
Description: Provides a shortcode which you can use to embed Kontactr form in your page
Author: Ashfame
Author URI: http://blog.ashfame.com/
License: GPL
Usage: [kontactr id=78523] in a post or page and <?php echo do_shortcode('[kontactr id=78523]'); ?> in your theme anywhere
*/

add_shortcode ( 'kontactr', 'kontactr_handler' );

function kontactr_handler( $atts, $content = null )
{
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		"id" => 0
		), $atts ));

	if ( $id == 0 )
		return;
	else
	{
		$output = '<script type="text/javascript"> id = '.$id.'; </script>
			<script type="text/javascript" src="http://kontactr.com/wp.js"></script>';
		return $output;
	}
}
?>

You would need to take your ID from your Kontactr account, and then use it as follows:

 [kontactr id=78523] 

78523 is my ID. So replace it with your own.

You can also use this shortcode anywhere in the theme as

 <?php echo do_shortcode('[kontactr id=78523]'); ?> 

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I am zipping it up as a plugin but you can copy paste the code inside your functions.php file and you should be fine.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Show Recent Comments by a particular user
Plugin URI: http://blog.ashfame.com/?p=876
Description: Provides a shortcode which you can use to show recent comments by a particular user
Author: Ashfame
Author URI: http://blog.ashfame.com/
License: GPL
Usage:
*/

add_shortcode ( 'show_recent_comments', 'show_recent_comments_handler' );

function show_recent_comments_handler( $atts, $content = null )
{
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		"count" => 10,
		"pretty_permalink" => 0
		), $atts ));

	$output = ''; // this holds the output

	if ( is_user_logged_in() )
	{
		global $current_user;
		get_currentuserinfo();

		$args = array(
			'user_id' => $current_user->ID,
			'number' => $count, // how many comments to retrieve
			'status' => 'approve'
			);

		$comments = get_comments( $args );
		if ( $comments )
		{
			$output.= "<ul>\n";
			foreach ( $comments as $c )
			{
			$output.= '<li>';
			if ( $pretty_permalink ) // uses a lot more queries (not recommended)
				$output.= '<a href="'.get_comment_link( $c->comment_ID ).'">';
			else
				$output.= '<a href="'.get_settings('siteurl').'/?p='.$c->comment_post_ID.'#comment-'.$c->comment_ID.'">';
			$output.= $c->comment_content;
			$output.= '</a>';
			$output.= "</li>\n";
			}
			$output.= '</ul>';
		}
	}
	else
	{
		$output.= "<h2>You should be logged in to see your comments. Make sense?</h2>";
		$output.= '<h2><a href="'.get_settings('siteurl').'/wp-login.php?redirect_to='.get_permalink().'">Login Now &rarr;</a></h2>';
	}
	return $output;
}
?>

You can use in a post or page as follows:

[show_recent_comments]

This will show last 10 comments of the current user.

[show_recent_comments count=15]

You can change the number of comments you want by providing it with the value of count.

Now, if you notice, they do link to the respective comments but links are not pretty permalinks. I don’t recommend you do this (because it increases the query count), but if you really want to have pretty permalinks, you can use the shortcode as follows:

[show_recent_comments count=15 pretty_permalink=1]

or just with the default count of 10 as follows:

[show_recent_comments pretty_permalink=1]

I should highlight the fact that the current user (registered member) will see the comments he or she has made. If you are not logged in, it asks you to login and after login brings you back on the post or page where you are using this shortcode.

You can use this code to make changes as per your need. You can use this shortcode anywhere in your theme by calling it as follows:

<?php echo do_shortcode( '[show_recent_comments count=15]' ); ?>

And I think if you use it like that outside the loop, it won’t bring the user back to the previous page. You will need to change the get_permalink() call near the end of the plugin.

Good thing is that it works correctly with cache plugins such as WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache because logged in users are served live pages instead of cached pages. Correct me if I am wrong.

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The screenshots are that of Ubuntu 10.10 & it should be close to other versions.

Steps to connect to a FTP server in Ubuntu

Select Places > Connect to Server.

Select FTP (with login) as Service type, enter server name and user name. You can even add it as a bookmark so that next you will only need to click it once to quickly connect to the server again.

Enter the password and chose to save it if its your personal computer.

That’s it. You can now browse your FTP content just like how you browse local files.

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Some of the methods will require you to export your delicious bookmarks from them and then import the file, while others will directly fetch it from your delicious account. I will mention where the user don’t need to download or export his bookmarks and tags first, from delicious.

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Export Delicious Bookmarks & Tags

Login into your delicious account and head over to Export page from where you can export a file containing all your bookmarks and tags information.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to your browser

Importing in browsers will require you to export bookmarks first from your delicious account.

For Firefox

Open up the bookmarks manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + B or alternatively going to Boomarks menu and select Organize Bookmarks. Click on Import and Backup & select Import HTML option and choose the file you downloaded from delicious.

For Chrome

Click on the settings icon and select Bookmark manager.

In the bookmark manager, click on Organize and select Import Bookmarks & choose the file you downloaded.

For Opera

Open the Menu, select Bookmarks and then Bookmarks manager or alternatively by pressing Ctrl + Shift + B.

In the Bookmarks manager, click on the File menu and select Import Firefox Bookmarks. Now choose the file you exported from your delicious account.

For Internet Explorer

Select the File menu and then Import and Export. Select Import from a file. Click on Next and select Favorites on the next screen. Click Next and select the file you downloaded.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Xmarks

Xmarks provide an easy option but there is a serious limitation with it that it only supports 100 public bookmarks, so your private bookmarks and those which are above 100 won’t be imported. A workaround will be to first save your delicious bookmarks in a browser and then sync those with Xmarks using this tool. This method doesn’t require you to download your bookmarks from delicious.

Login to your Xmarks account and go to http://my.xmarks.com. From the Tools menu, select Import Bookmarks from Del.icio.us. Provide your Delicious username & it will download your bookmarks and then add them to a new folder. Since it doesn’t ask for any password, I guess it works by importing bookmarks from feed and that makes sense as it can only handle public & a limited number of bookmarks.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Diigo

Diigo is another option you can use to save your bookmarks. Login to your account and head over to import page.

Select the file you downloaded and it will be uploaded and imported in your Diigo account.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Evernote

Update: Evernote has released a new version which lets you import delicious bookmarks directly to Evernote seamlessly. It is supposed to come under Settings > Import but since I can’t see it under my account, I am not sure whether it has not been rolled out completely or is available only to premium members. More Details.

Dr. Palaniraja wrote a script that will convert your bookmarks in XML format to .enex file format which you can import it in your Evernote account. He has explained the process very well with screenshots, so if you want to import your bookmarks to Evernote, head over to the guide.

If you have troubles getting a XML file export of your bookmarks, then head over to DeliciousXML and easily export them as XML. No pain and no risk as the site uses OAuth and doesn’t ask you for passwords.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to WordPress

WordPress can do pretty much anything. Here again, you can use Delicious XML Importer plugin which will let you import your Delicious bookmarks into WordPress as links or posts.

Install and activate the plugin, you will find it under the Tools menu. Select Import and then Delicious.

Get the XML file of your bookmarks from DeliciousXML and specify whether you want it as posts or links, and there you go.

Now you will have your bookmarks backed up on your own site.

And if you are going to run this on a private WordPress installation, you should check this guide where you can run a delicious-like bookmark website using WordPress created with the help of TwentyTen child theme, Bookmarks post type and the plugin I just mentioned. All 3 things required are available for download. Choice is yours!

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Google Bookmarks

Update: You can actually import them to Google Bookmarks without having to deal with code. Login into your Google account or Google app account, and use this tool.

In case you are ready to try out some Ruby code, you can use the downloaded export file from delicious and then use this tutorial to import all of them to Google Bookmarks.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Pinboard

Pinboard is a new substitute for Delicious which is gaining popularity fastly. One can easily import bookmarks by going to the Settings and choosing the Import tab and uploading the html file downloaded from Delicious.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Mister Wong

Mister-Wong offers two options for importing bookmarks. Either from the file you downloaded or from Delicious directly. It even has a sync feature with Delicious account.

Head over to import bookmarks page to select importing from the two options.

If you chose to import the already downloaded file, you can simply upload it.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Historio.us

Historio.us is another simple, lightweight alternative for keeping your bookmarks. You can simply go to the URL http://yourusername.historio.us/add/ to import the file downloaded from Delicious.

Import Delicious Bookmarks to Faviki

Faviki is yet another alternative that will ask your Delicious username and password and it will import your bookmarks. Although it gives you much more control on tags than others, but the process is not instantaneous. Faviki will notify you when your bookmarks have been imported.

Incase, I find any other good solution, I will update this article. I have updated the article with a solution for importing to Google Bookmarks, updates to Evernote method, more methods of importing to Pinboard, Mister-Wong, Historio.us and Faviki. Still Looking for more!

Note: Image Credit of Internet Explorer, Xmarks and Diigo goes to TechieBuzz and that of Pinboard, Historio.us and Faviki goes to thenextweb.

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Windows is not genuine
Your computer might not be running a counterfeit copy of Windows.
0×80070005

Moreover, the computer desktop background is turned to black, after some time of logging in and the following error message is shown on the bottom right corner of the screen:

This copy of Windows is not genuine

When you try to view the system information in System Properties (Control Panel -> System and Security -> System), the following error message can be seen:

You must activate today. Activate Windows now

Using slmgr.vbs /dlv or slmgr.vbs /dli in an elevated command prompt with administrator privileges to view the licensing status will return the following message instead:

Error: 0×80070005 Access denied: the requested action requires elevated privileges

Normally, the suddenly or random deactivation of an activated Windows 7 on genuine platform can be resolved by simply restarting the computer, so thatWindows 7 can re-access the activation status to return the computer to activated status. However, in some cases, where modification has been done to HKU\S-1-5-20 registry key causing the Network Service account to lose and missing full control and read permissions over the registry key, the losing of activated status may happen on Windows 7 too.

Microsoft explains in KB2008385 that the possible cause for the Windows 7 turned pirated error is likely the result of applying a Plug and Play Group Policy object (GPO):

Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> System Services -> Plug and Play (Startup Mode: Automatic)

The Windows 7 Licensing service uses Plug and Play to obtain hardware ID information and binds the license to the computer, thus change to the setting can result in an activated system appearing to be out of tolerance. The default permissions of the Plug and Play policy do not grant the Licensing service, which runs under the Network Service account, the appropriate rights to access the Plug and Play service. To fix and resolve the Windows 7 activation lost issue, and make the Windows 7 activated and genuine again, just follow one of the two Methods stated Below:

Method I: Disable the Plug and Play Policy

1. Determine the source of the policy. To do this, follow these steps:
2. On the client computer experiencing the activation error, run the Resultant Set of Policy wizard by clicking Start -> Run (or press Win+R keys), and entering rsop.msc as the command.

3. Visit the following location:

Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings ->Security Settings -> System Services

If the Plug and Play service is configured through a Group Policy setting, you see it here with settings other than Not Defined. Additionally, you can see which Group Policy is applying this setting.

4. Disable the Group Policy settings and force the Group Policy to be reapplied.

• Edit the Group Policy that is identified in Step 1 and change the setting to “Not Defined.” Or, follow the section below to add the required permissions for the Network Service account.
• Force the Group Policy setting to reapply: gpupdate /force (a restart of the client is sometimes required).

Method II: Edit the permissions of the Group Policy

1. Open the Group Policy that is identified in Method I, Step 1 above, and open the corresponding Group Policy setting.
2. Click the Edit Security button, and then click the Advanced button.
3. In the Advanced Security Settings for Plug and Play window click Addand then add the SERVICE account. Then, click OK.
4. Select the following permissions in the Allow section and then click OK:Query template
   Query status
   Enumerate dependents
   Interrogate
   User-defined control
   Read permissions
5. Run gpupdate /force after applying the permissions to the Group Policy setting.
6. Verify that the appropriate permissions are applied with the following command:sc sdshow plugplay
   The following are the rights applied to the Plug and Play service in SDDL:D:(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;SY)
   (A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)
   (A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;IU)
   (A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;SU)
   S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;WD)Note: (A;;CC LC SW LO CR RC ;;;SU is an Access Control Entry (ACE) that allows the following rights to “SU” (SDDL_SERVICE – Service logon user):A: Access Allowed
   CC: Create Child
   LC: List Children
   SW: Self Write
   LO: List Object
   CR: Control Access
   RC: Read Control
   SU: Service Logon User

If there are no GPO’s in place, then another activity may have changed the default registry permissions. To resolve this problem, perform the following steps:

1. Click Start Menu, Then Run, then enter REGEDIT
2. Right-click the registry key HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20, and select Permissions… button.
3. If the NETWORK SERVICE is not present, click Add… button.
4. In Enter the object names to select type Network Service and then click Check Names and OK.
5. Select the NETWORK SERVICE and Grant Full Control and Read permissions.
6. Restart the computer.
7. After the restart, the system may require activation. Complete the activation.

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I did some search and found out that most bloggers are pointing out to embed videos by using the following code:

<object width="400" height="224" >
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxxxxx" />
<embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxxxxx" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224">
</embed>
</object>

Change the xxxxxx in the code to the video id and paste the whole code in a post and it will show up. You can change the width and height values as per your theme.

What if I tell you that there is an easy way that won’t let you deal with the code all the time and can even avoid the possible issues with embedding the code like in above method? I will be show you how to add a facebook video to WordPress using the power of shortcodes.

Add the following code to your functions.php file of your theme

// Facebook Video Shortcode - Ashfame.com
function ashfame_fbvideo($atts, $content = null) {
   extract(shortcode_atts(array(
      "id" => '',
   ), $atts));
   return '<object width="650" height="364" >
   <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
   <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
   <param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/'.$id.'" />
   <embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/'.$id.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="650" height="364">
   </embed>
   </object>';
}
add_shortcode("fbvideo", "ashfame_fbvideo");

Just change the width and height values in this code once as per your theme and embed a facebook video in your post or page with the following syntax:

[fbvideo id="xxxxxx"]

Example:

To embed a facebook video, I will need the value of video id which can be obtained from the address bar when the video is opened in its own page.
After watching a video, click on Go to Video link.

Copy the video id from the address bar as shown in the screenshot.

And paste this in your post or page where you want to embed a video:

[fbvideo id="1598555857571"]

And it will show up as

If you have any questions, you can ask in the comments.

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