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Custom Recent Posts Widget

Custom Recent Posts Widget WordPress Plugin

Did you remember my old post about excluding categories in WordPress recent posts widget? It is still one of the easiest methods to exclude categories in wordpress recent posts widget. But it needed some coding knowledge. Well.. I’ve developed a plugin for that purpose …

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How to change WordPress Password using phpMyAdmin

Sometimes the Lost Password retrieval tool in WordPress doesn’t work due to an error in your host. In that case, phpMyAdmin helps you to change the wordpress user password by editing the database. phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL …

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Graphene Custom Slider Excerpt Length

Sometimes View full post button go out of the Graphene Slider due to increased excerpt length. Default excerpt length in WordPress is 55 words. You can override this by using a plugin or custom excerpt length function. But it affects the excerpt everywhere. So, here is a function which affects only the Graphene Slider excerpt …

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Twitter has 140 character limit. Really?!

Twitter has a 140 character limit for tweets. Well, look at this tweet, and count the letters! It has more than 140 characters. So, what’s the hack behind this? (Click on the below image to enlarge it) Embedded original tweet. It was retweeted more than 38883 times!

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Goodbye Dravid

Dear Rahul, This is not going to be easy. But I will try. One sentence at a time. Congratulations. Is that appropriate? That’s what people at work say when someone quits. And, despite the anguish surrounding your decision, this is supposed to be a happy day. At least I would like to think …

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GitHub – SSH Key Vulnerability

Just received an email from github about SSH Key Vulnerability. It was not an attempt to breakdown the github though. But, nobody took Homakov’s concern seriously. So, he did it. I just wanted to give him a big shout out for helping to make github stronger. So, I’m going to approve …

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