Parent Child Theme – Easiest Way!

This solution will work for you if you want your child theme have fewer templates and if any template is missing, it should not break your blog but should go to parent theme and load it.

And a few important things to set,
1) parent theme folder name
2) child theme folder name
3) Template set in child theme style.css must match parent theme folder name

Because child theme name and Template set in child theme style.css are stored in options table.
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Joomla or Wordpress?

Joomla is primed to be the next favorite Open Source Software, or that it already is? More on WordpressGarage.com

Migrate Tags from UTW Tags to Wordpress 2.3 Terms

I was running wordpress 2.0.5 since 2 years and did not get time to upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.

So I decided last week to upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 and I did. I upgrade the same way how wordpress advice us here.

After installation, I did notice it has migrated my categories tables to wordpress 2.3 Terms tables but nothing migrated from Tags tables. I was surprised! Did I make any mistake? Then it comes into my mind, it is Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, which has created those tables for me not Wordpress.

Now I had to migrate those tags from Tags table to Terms tables. So I wrote a script that does that job for me. I thought let me make that available to you, if someone would like to extend the script and build a smart plugin! (more…)

Wordpress Database Schema

**Updated**: Wordpress 2.7 Database Schema is now available.
Tired of searching Wordpress Database Schema on Internet? Your search has ended now.

Click here to download wordpress database schema image files.

Yahoo! Shortcuts Plugin

Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin for Wordpress is cool. It makes posts rich with Yahoo! Maps, Flickr, finds relevant content and more.

Web proxy for cross-domain AJAX Calls

Writing client web applications that use XMLHttpRequest (also known as the XMLHTTP object in Internet Explorer) object can be tricky given restrictions imposed by web browsers on network connections across domains. This article on Yahoo Developer Network describes the issue in simple, easy to understand language and provides couple of possible solutions. More on Yahoo Dev Network

Desktop (windows) Applications in PHP

We create web-applications using PHP, now we can also develop Desktop Applications with PHP-GTK. We all know that Desktop Applications are the one which does not need either a Web Server like Apache or a web browser for their execution. And this is the reason why Java is so popular because it can be used to build applications, web pages, applets and more that can run on several platforms including Windows, Linux. More On Zend Developer Zone