18Dec 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Adding Menu Descriptions in a WordPress Theme

CMS, Web Design & Programming, Web Development Services, WordPress
WordPress 3.x menu has a very nice feature where you can add descriptions with each menu items. But this feature is hidden by default. When enabled displaying these description is not supported sometime in few themes. These menu descriptions provides a better user experience on your website and these descriptions can be used to show visitors more about a menu item. Most of the themes are not designed with menu-item descriptions but here We can guide you how to enable menu descriptions in WordPress and how to add each menu descriptions in your WordPress theme. You can follow these simple steps to show menu description for your WordPress theme: 1. Go to Menu section and click on screen option in top right. 2. Tick the checkbox of description and click…
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10Dec 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

PayPal Test payments in WooCommerce Plugin

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The PayPal Sandbox is a place where you can test your shopping cart and other PayPal integrations in a realistic way, except that no money changes hands. This means you can test your PayPal processes in the Sandbox and know they will behave the same on the when you go live. You need to follwo these steps 1. Login to the PayPal developer website Login to the PayPal developer website: http://developer.paypal.com. Use your PayPal username and password to login and navigate to Applications → Sandbox accounts. 2. Create Your Sandbox test accounts Now You need to create 2 test accounts – 1 for the merchant (representing your shop’s PayPal account) and 1 for a buyer (representing a customer/buyer). Click the Create Account button to create an account. 3. Configure WooCommerce PayPal settings Now login to…
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29Nov 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Virtual Currency: Bitcoin

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Bitcoin is being used to pay for everything from pin to smartphones on the Internet. The Bitcoin is being traded without  tracking, for reducing banking-transaction fees and making it an attractive for those seeking to buy and sell via the Web-stores. The price of Bitcoin is $1,034 on the http://preev.com/ , and this virtual currency gaining wider acceptance. Bitcoins, which exist as software and aren’t regulated by any country or banking authority,surged to a record $1,073 yesterday, up more than 80-fold from a year earlier. The currency has rallied on growing interest from investors in China and the U.S., while merchants are starting to accept Bitcoins for everything from Bears to tuition fees. History Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 by a group of programmers going under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoins exist as software,…
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27Nov 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 1 Comment

How to start LAMPP automatically in Ubuntu?

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For a web developer LAMPP is the primary application for web development, so to start it every time whenever you login. You can make a script which will automatically start LAMPP on login. Open terminal and run following command. [code]sudo gedit /etc/init.d/lampp[/code] Use following code in file & save and close the file. [code] #!/bin/bash /opt/lampp/lampp start [/code] Now run following command to make this script executable. [code] sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/lampp [/code] In Last run following command to install init scripts to all runlevel. [code] sudo update-rc.d lampp defaults [/code] Restart the system for confirmation, lampp would be start automatically & you can check it by running http://localhost in your browser.
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26Nov 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Voting Rights Bill For NRI (Non Resident Indian)

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Parliament has approved voting rights for non-resident Indians in elections with the Lok Sabha adopting the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2010, However, the person will be able to exercise the franchise only if he or she is present in the constituency on the polling day. The new law will allow an Indian citizen residing abroad to enrol in voter’s list and exercise his franchise even if he or she remained away from place of residence in India for more than six months owing to employment, education or otherwise. But there are more then 20 million Indians living abroad and it is practically impossible to have 20 million people travel to India at the same time. So a combination of Internet and Postal Ballot is more practical, reasonable and…
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15Nov 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Google India celebrated Children’s Day with the Doodle 4 winner

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The Google India homepage on Thursday, November 14, 2013 shows Google written with characters that well and truly are Indian. The doodle is titled 'Sky's the limit for Indian women' and has been designed by Gayatri Ketharaman from Pune for the fifth edition of Doodle 4 Google competition. The theme this year was celebrating Indian women. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="652"] Google Doodle 4 India[/caption] Today's doodle has G written with a young girl character who is seen leaping in the air with a dupatta and a musical instrument behind her indicating that she is dancing. The two Os are written with a Re 1 coin that has a graduation cap on it while the other O is balance by a house on a beam balance. The other G shows a…
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14Nov 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 1 Comment

WordPress Category template

Web Design & Programming, WordPress
If you want to create a different category template of wordpress theme to display specific category. You can do this by saving your Category template as category-xxx.php . Please note that adding hyphen ("-") and the category id to the file name. So, category-xxx.php will be used to display category that have ID  xxx, & category-1.php will be used for category ID 1. You can follow the same logic of hyphen and id number for individual post template creation.
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24Oct 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 2 Comments

How to Customize the WordPress admin bar?

CMS, PHP Scripts, Tutorials, Web Design & Programming, WordPress
In WordPress 3.3 version there is a handy admin bar that provides quick access to some Admin features for logged in users. There are several ways to do customize it by creating functions. Here I will show, how you can customize the admin bar the way you want. WorPress adds a black menu bar (Admin Bar or Toolbar) at the top of the screen when user is logged in. This menu bar is also visible even when you are at the front end of the site and provide you a quick links of pages quickly. WordPress allows us to customize the this bar and it’s possible to add new links (menu items) in that bar or remove or change the existing ones. Using admin_bar_menu or wp_before_admin_bar_render hook we can customize…
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22Oct 2013 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

How to customize your WordPress dashboard

CMS, PHP, Tutorials, Web Development Services, WordPress
There are many ways to customize the WordPress Dashboard. In default Wordpress Installation WP Dashboard have a brief view of the main sections of your site in terms of meta boxes, they also provide granular & graphical data on everything from recent comments & plugin updates to incoming links as well as WordPress latest news. There are many of dashboard widgets and plugins available in the WordPress Plugin Directory that you can use to transform your Dashboard into nice customized dashboard with your own text/images and links, or even disable it completely. The details of new plugins, WordPress News & Blog Updates , all these sections are added using the wp_dashboard_setup() hook and we can used it to remove them. You can use below code in your theme`s functions.php file…
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