We have all been sharing stuffs and links to the social and bookmarking sites for long, and specially if you blog or visit blogs, you have a nice idea of sharing stuffs. A count of that is kept by every such sites to let you know how many times that particular link has been shared on that site. Ever wondered how to get those like or share counts without the like or share buttons? Say you want total counts of how many time your particular article has been liked on Facebook or tweeted on Twitter or stumbled upon on Stumbleupon, pinned in Pinterest. What I show you below will require basic json understanding. You can learn basics of json here. Once you get the json you can parse the json and print the count of shares or like as you wish. So here is how you get the like and share counts of different social and bookmarking sites. Read the full story…

Hello everybody, we are back with some awesome inspirations and resources after a long time (over a year :( ).This time we take a look at some awesome Mobile UI Kits that are free to download and use. So next time you are creating your awesomely sweet mobile app for Android or iPhone, you know where to get your icons and your inspirations. These UI kits are created by other people and not us, we are only listing them to make your life easier ;). Read the full story…

I wrote about Post Formats on my last article here. Basically it dealt with what a post format is and how it is different from Post Types and a basic know how of how to use it. In this article, I am going to take it a step further and give you a working example of it. You might have seen blogs or themes where a video is shown instead of Featured Image or may be a link, quote, slideshow etc. Those all are post formats and this is how they are done (I am going to show example of video only for now). Read the full story…

Ever wondered how to display a slideshow or video instead of Featured Image. Post Formats is the answer. Post Formats are not to be mistaken for Post Types. Post types let you create different post types where you go on to add them with different custom fields, taxonomies and they work as another post type for adding similar contents, while post formats may sound somewhat similar initially they are totally different. According to codex,

Post Formats is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.1. A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post. The Post Formats feature provides a standardized list of formats that are available to all themes that support the feature.

Post Formats let you add a meta that lets you know what type of data it is and hence can be presented accordingly. Different post formats that are available are: Read the full story…

WordPress on basic level has nearly covered every button that one needs for quick customization of the content. But besides what WP offers , there are situations that one may require a few/more detailed style options. Like font size, font family etc. These buttons can be brought up and used in the editor without any external plugins. The multi functional functions.php file comes into play here.  Read the full story…

I was at the first WordCamp in Nepal, WordCamp Nepal 2012 this last weekend and had an awesome time meeting fellow WordPressers and also talked a little on WordPress MultiSite and when and where should one use it and where should it avoid that. Here is my slide from the event. Hope you guys find it interesting.

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