Monday, November 24th, 2008 |
Forums are powerful platforms for user generated contents and there by increases the traffic to websites. So many bloggers have started their own forums. We have several tools available to integrate forums with wordpress blogs. But sometimes it is very hard to tweak the forum templates with respect to the blogs. I feel Wp-united is a powerful tool which integrates phpBB3 and Wordpress 2.3.x. The configurations are simple and easy to follow.
All installation steps are explained in the install.xml file in the wp- united package. Initially you have to upload the wp-united files to corresponding location as specified. After that you have to tweak some phpBB forum files. I provide you phpbb3 files that has been tweaked for wp-united integration, hence you can directly upload them to the specified location. It will make you one step easier 
. Then logon to forum control panel after running wpu-install.php in the root folder of the wp-united package(Upload it to the root folder and call the url to this file) and there will be a wp-united tab which will lead you to the configuration process.
Click here to download the files.
File Paths:
Forum/memberlist.php
Forum/viewtopic.php
Froum/ucp.php
Forum/includes/functions_content.php
Forum/includes/functions.php
Forum/includes/functions_user.php
Forum/includes/ucp/ucp_profile.php
Forum/includes/acp/acp_users.php
Forum/language/en/common.php
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 |
The following steps explain batch water marking using photoshop.
- Open a sample image which you need the watermarking and the watermarking image.(If you want text as water mark please rasterize the type).Make sure that the sample image is in front of the watermarking image.
2 . Open windows -> Action and add a new action (Click the icon left side of the trash icon for new action in the action window). Provide a name for the action along with a function key.
3 . Now the record button in the action is in blinking state, which means all your actions are being recorded. Then you select the water mark image.
4. Select the whole image using rectangular marquee tool and copy the layer ( ctrl+c or edit->copy).
5. Select the sample image.
6. Paist it (ctrl+v or edit->paist).
7. Move the image where you need the water marking in the sample image.
8. Then save the sample image and close it after that stop recording.
9. Open a new photo and run the recording by clicking the play button.
10. If it works fine for that photo your is set.
11. Go to File->Automate->Batch.
12. Choose the action you have created, source folder and destination folder. Click ok and wait. After sometimes check out the destination folder.
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008 |
Cforms || is a very useful plugin for wordpress and I hope it will take away all programming stuffs in future. This plugin helps you to deploy multiple forms in your blogs. It will only take a little time to configure the required forms and it has a very efficient user interface. I used this plugin in a job site to collect students details. I feel it is very powerful with plenty of customization options.
Cforms provides you to build forms in multiple pages or posts, multiple forms in pages and also helps to customize of your current comment fields. The collected data can be inserted into a database or it will be sent to an email address provided.
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