MaxRef Widgets is a powerful way to add unlimited widgets on your sidebars to display posts only from a certain category, the links from a particular link category, comments and more. Choose how many items appear, to display an RSS feed for categories, and how to sort the links presented. WebFadds (Scott Frangos) teamed up with programmer Antonie Potgieter (Tribulant Software) (Antonie Potgieter) to create an original new and reconcepted plugin. Now with the help of new programmer Sakin Shrestha (Digital Max Solutions) enhance the plugin that is fully WordPress 2.8 compliant.

Changes: Visit us at http://www.webfadds.com/overview/plugins/ for news and updates.

Click Here to Download this Plugin.

Warning: Cannot load module ‘SQLite’ because required module ‘pdo’ is not loaded in Unknown on line 0
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 440: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions_install.php:24)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 441: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions_install.php:24)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 442: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions_install.php:24)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 443: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions_install.php:24)

Solutions for This:
1. Open the file includes/functions_install.php
2. Find the code:

function can_load_dll($dll)
{
return ((@ini_get(’enable_dl’) || strtolower(@ini_get(’enable_dl’)) == ‘on’) && (!@ini_get(’safe_mode’) || strtolower(@ini_get(’safe_mode’)) == ‘off’) && @dl($dll . ‘.’ . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX)) ? true : false;
}

3. Select the code and replace it by this code:

function can_load_dll($dll)
{
return false;
return ((@ini_get(’enable_dl’) || strtolower(@ini_get(’enable_dl’)) == ‘on’) && (!@ini_get(’safe_mode’) || strtolower(@ini_get(’safe_mode’)) == ‘off’) && @dl($dll . ‘.’ . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX)) ? true : false;
}

Note, this is fooling the phpBB installer into thinking it can load all database types, when it can’t. This only affects the installer, not normal running of phpBB. Do NOT pick SQLITE when asked during installation, even though it will be reported as available!

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We have just upgraded the site ExoticBuddha from wordpress to wordpress MU version 2.7. ExoticBuddha.com is a guide to those of you who wish to travel to Nepal. You will find answers to the questions about Nepal that would encourage you to board a flight to Nepal and help to make your stay here a meaningful one. If you can not find information you are looking for on the website, type a question - you will find answers to that question from other visitors and from us.

You could share your experiences and expertise by creating a free blog - adding texts, pictures there - commenting on the answers that we have provided and the questions your fellow visitors have asked. Heck! You can even correct answers if you feel they are misleading. Be a part of this community by asking questions, answering and commenting on them or by simply browsing the website.

If you want to contact us, please write to us at info@exoticbuddha.com. You can also call us at 977-1-6206520.

- By Sakin

1. For Search Engine Optimization
   • All in One SEO Pack: This plugins helps in Search Engine Optimization.
   • Google Analytics for WordPress: It creates Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.
   • SEO Friendly Images: It is an optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes and thus helps is SEO and validation.
   • Google XML Sitemap Generator: This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
2. For Photo Gallery
   • NextGEN Gallery: This is full integrated Image Gallery Plugin
   • Yet Another Photoblog: It helps to develop full featured photoblog
   • Featured Content Gallery: It creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
3. For Forms
   • Contact Form 7: It helps to create and manage multiple contact forms
   • cforms II: It offers convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.
4. For Maintenance
   • Maintenance Mode: It adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance
   • Theme Test Drive: It allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.
5. For Rating
   • GD Star Rating: It allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog.
   • WP-PostRatings: It is old and mostly used Rating system in wordpress.
6. For CMS
   • Theme My Login: This plugin themes the WordPress login, register, forgot password and profile pages to look like the rest of your website. It replaces the wp-login.php and profile.php by using a page template from your theme.
   • Flutter: You can create custom write panel pages or posts + duplicatable fields and groups + import and export them. This is the great plugin if you are thinking on CMS solutions.
   • Multi-level Navigation Plugin: Adds an SEO friendly, accessible dropdown/flyout/slider menu to your WordPress blog. Visit the Multi-level Navigation Plugin page for more information about the plugin, or the PixoPoint forum for help with adding the menu to your theme.
   • Top Level Categories: This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of http://www.sakinshrestha.com/category/photo, I use http://www.sakinshrestha.com/photo for the address my “photo” category.
   • WP No Category Base: I like the name of this plugin. It is same as the top level categories plugin but this got the good naming. We can understand the function of the plugin my just reading the name. This plugin will completely remove the mandatory ‘Category Base’ from your category permalinks ( e.g. myblog.com/category/my-category/ to myblog.com/my-category/ ).
   • Breadcrumb NavXT: The successor to the popular WordPress plugin Breadcrumb Navigation XT, was written from the ground up to be better than its ancestor. This plugin generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress blog. These breadcrumb trails are highly customizable to suit the needs of just about any blog. The Administrative interface makes setting options easy, while a direct class access is available for theme developers and more adventurous users.
   • Breadcrumb Titles For Pages: This plugin modifies wp_title() (the function used to create the title of your website) to output all parent Pages when viewing a child Page (top level Pages obviously won’t be affected).
     Example: YourSite.com >> Top Level Page >> Child Page >> Grandchild Page
   • Simple Tags: It is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 tags
   • PageMash: It is page management plugin. Customise the order your pages are listed in and manage the parent structure with this simple ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be hidden from output. Great tool to quickly re-arrange your page menus.
   • WP-PageNavi: Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.
   • Wordpress Navigation List Plugin NAVT: The WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT) plugin is a powerful tool designed to provide you with complete control over the creation, styling and contents of your web site’s navigation. The plugin gives you the ability to create unique site navigation from your pages, categories and users using a Drag ‘n Drop Interface; arrange the items within a group in any arbitrary order. Navigation groups may be composed of any combination of pages, categories, Authors, (Editors, Contributors, Subscribers), internal/external links and list dividers.
7. For E-commerce:
   • WP e-Commerce: The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.
   • eShop: It is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
8. For Security & Privacy:
   • Login LockDown: Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.
   • WP Security Scan: It Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.
   • Member Access: It allows a WordPress administrator to make individual posts and pages accessible only to logged-in members. Member Access allows global configuration so that all posts or pages can be viewable by everyone (the default) or only by members, and it also allows each post and page to override the global setting.
   • Members Only: It allows you to make your blog only viewable to visitors that are logged in. If a visitor is not logged in, they will be redirected either to the WordPress login page or a page of your choice. Once logged in they can be redirected back to the page that they originally requested. You can also protect your feeds whilst allowing registered user access to them by using Feed Keys.
   • Social Privacy: Social Privacy is a set of open-source plugins for WordPress that restrict the read access of posts or categories to only specified registered users. Install these plugins and you can start blogging for friends and family about topics that are too sensitive to publish publicly.
9. For Cache:
   • WP Super Cache: It generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
10. For Backups:
    • Wordpress Backup: This plugin backup the upload directory (images), current theme directory, and plugins directory to a zip file. Zip files optionally sent to email.
    • WP-DB-Backup: It allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
11. Some Other Useful Plugins:
    • bbPress Integration: This plugin helps to integrate the bbPress Forum developed by the creators of Wordpress
    • Feed Control: This plugin will allow you to change how WordPress generates the main feeds that the update services use. From here you can add Pages to your feeds or remove posts from them. You also have the option to exclude specific posts or pages based on their ID and can also set the sort options to use modified date instead of post date.
    • Search Everything: Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included:
    • Suscribe2: It provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
    • WP-Polls: It is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.
    • Easy AdSenser: It provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSenser is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.
    • Sociable: It automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
    • Events Calendar: It is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. You can also try Event Calender 3
    • Google Maps Anywhere: Add Google Maps to your posts and pages.(Only for WordPress 2.5+) This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Maps and Street View into your blog.

I hope you all enjoy Wordpress. It is simply the great.
Enjoy, Sakin Shrestha

In this context I would like to share an article by Damon Darlin in New York Times.

Jack Ma, the chief executive of Alibaba Group, stopped by to talk about his plans for Alibaba.com, the Chinese Web site for making business-to-business connections, and Taobao.com, the Chinese answer to eBay.

As a prominent businessman in China, Mr. Ma gets asked a lot about the declining state of the world economy. He said that he was eating at a restaurant recently when the owner recognized him and asked when the recession will be over.

“Next year,” Mr. Ma replied.

The restaurant owner was surprised, Mr. Ma said. “The recession will be over next year?” the man asked.

“No,” said Mr. Ma, “Next year, we’ll all get used to it.”

Mr. Ma thinks the recession is going to last three to five years. “If you don’t accept that, you are in trouble.”

Mr. Ma said he was in the United States looking for partnerships. He thinks that Alibaba could help out-of-work Americans looking to start a small business. A person goes to the site to find suppliers among the directory of about 4.2 million companies. A click of a button next to a listing generates an e-mail asking about prices or samples.

Someone with an idea for a new product could use Alibaba to find a contract manufacturer, said Mr. Ma. They could also use the service to get a prototype built.

At least, he hopes he can appeal to entrepreneurs. He worried that the American dream is dying here. “You don’t see the hope here,” said Mr. Ma. “This time they are waiting for the government.”

Layoffs affect survivors in various ways. Here’s what you can do to limit the damage.

Creativity. Evidence from several researchers suggests that downsizing dampens survivors’ creativity - a potentially dangerous development for almost any company. Because this effect appears to be related to employees’ negative perceptions of their work environment, put renewed effort into team building to maintain or improve work-group stability and into providing challenging work, which stimulates creativity.

Communication. Downsizing tends to disrupt social networks and information exchange within companies, adding to employees’ negative feelings. Encourage increased contact among managers and employees, promote active listening, institute open-door policies, and get employee input into decision-making.

Perceptions. Downsizing tends to increase stress, burnout, insecurity, and mistrust of management and reduce morale, job satisfaction, and commitment. Such perceptual changes are linked to greater turnover, diminished helping behavior, and poorer job and company performance. Reduce layoffs’ fallout by helping employees to see the process as fair and showing that other options were considered first. Something else that might help: A moratorium on future layoffs, even if it has an explicit endpoint. One study found that the anticipation of downsizing can have an even stronger effect than layoffs themselves on employees’ negative perceptions of their work environment.

Turnover. Our own research shows a substantial increase in voluntary departures after layoffs, even if the downsizing was small. The costs of being understaffed, as well as of employee replacement and training, are unwelcome expenses when a company is attempting to save money. All of our recommendations above can help limit voluntary turnover. And for the future, institute HR policies promoting a sense of justice, such as confidential problem-solving avenues and an effective grievance or appeals process; companies with those practices had lower rates of post-downsizing increases in voluntary turnover.

Stars. Pay special attention to high performers. Research by one of us (Trevor) shows that employees who perform better and have more training, education, and ability are the most likely to quit if dissatisfied. Provide support and encouragement, and help them see that downsizing opens new opportunities and channels for promotion.

Source: Andrew O’Connell

If you have problem in Thumbnail Generation and Receive error like:
Follow thumbnails could not created.
DSC00422.JPG (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 57 MByte)
DSC00423.JPG (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 57.01 MByte)
DSC00424.JPG (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 57.01 MByte)
DSC00425.JPG (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 57.01 MByte)

Then you just edit this file “thumbnail.inc.php” which is located at: /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/thumbnail.inc.php

Search for
// @ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘128M’);

Change it to
ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘128M’);

Now you are done, just save and upload the file.

Link to NextGEN Gallery Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

Enjoy.
sakin

Some are afraid of failure, some are afraid of the pressures of success, and some just want to tell people about their ideas, just for the sake of doing so. Here is a general step-by-step guide to taking an idea and turning it into a business.

Once you get an Idea…

1. Talk - Share your idea with your friends. Don’t worry about someone stealing your idea. Feedback will triumph over excessive paranoia. Take all feedback objectively, but consider them all.

2. Write it down - Putting things down on paper gets a lot of things out of your head and onto an initial plan. Don’t worry about structure, all the analysis just yet. Put down everything that comes to your head first. Getting this out of the way paves a much easier path to sit down in the future and do up a proper business plan.

3. Assemble a team - Pick your people based on motivation, communication, and skills. The lack of any one of these attributes will result in a higher likelihood of your team not reaching its full potential and morale being affected adversely. Having an especially cohesive team is essential, as a start-up will take a much longer time to reach a point of big rewards.

4. Find a deadline - Make your own deadlines and set your own lofty targets. Break things down into small tasks each which its own deadline so that you at least make baby steps towards the final goal. Failure of this will likely result in procrastination and unnecessary slowdown of the project

5. Manage the team – Be decisive. Insist on reasonable commitments on team members, and don’t be afraid to seek out new blood if they don’t reach expected levels of commitment.

6. Rinse and repeat steps 4 and 5 until you get into business - Constantly seek out new goals to meet, and manage your team based on those goals on deadlines.

Simplistic as it sounds, these are practical steps that will move you in the right direction in a timely manner.

Source: Friedbeef’s Tech.