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Fetch comments of a specific category in WordPress

WordPress already provides an easy function for fetching the comments get_comments() but the function only supports fetching comments of a particular user, or for a particular post and not fetching comments of a particular category. The code for the former two cases, is pretty simple but the last one is not so simple. Here are […]

WordPress plugin Facebook Like Thumbnail Updates

I have updated my WordPress plugin to fix Facebook Like Thumbnails to version 0.2 which I am sure will make the existing users happy! 🙂 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 […]

Pagination approach using get_posts() in WordPress

Yesterday, I talk about using WP_query or query_posts or get_posts and today I am going to explain the approach I use to have pagination using get_posts(). The other two methods take care of the pagination by them self by just passing the paged parameter along with the function call. But get_posts() is more of a […]

Which one to use WP_Query vs query_posts() vs get_posts()?

There are several instances where we want to display content other than what WordPress displays at a particular page. There are three methods which you can use, but each of them is meant for a specific purpose, otherwise why would they have existed? Makes sense? Good! Some tutorials use one, some other and many of […]

Creating a backdoor in WordPress

First post in my WordPress Evil series, I will demonstrate how I can create a backdoor in WordPress. Idea of this post came from a question on WordPress Answers where someone asked – Is there a security risk giving someone temporary access to my blog’s code? Example #1 Change the admin password after a certain […]

WordPress Evil Post Series

Yeah! That sounded right. This is a post series where I will show you how to use WordPress to do evil, unethical things which surely doesn’t mean WordPress is a bad piece of software. Its really a great one considering every thing has its share of Pros & Cons. Remember, just like we say, Technology […]

Deal with Blog Scrappers getting indexed quicker than the original site

Although its not something that one should be worried about as such things often happen, and its actually a sign that you are growing. I would suggest you to just keep going on with the quality content on your site and not to worry about them scrapping your articles. Google does a pretty good job […]