Gettin’ Geek

This new category will be the micro-blogging corner on Gettin’ Geek. Expect short personal thoughts, rants, quotes, cool song lyrics; in English or other languages.

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As I said in the TemplateCodes.com system review, the Listing Filter module can filter ads by State or using an extra (custom) field but can’t be setup to filter by countries. There’s a way to make it do that though but you need to mess with the gears of the system, opening & editing a number of PHP files.

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OK as promised in my TemplateCodes system review here's my little guide to create new blocks (or side bar elements) for your 68Classifieds site that has the Template Zones module enabled. This will allow you to add new content or move elements from the Accordion & give them a different placement & order.

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It was tough to pick a good PHP classified script for a new project. I used Google; browsed some forums; read reviews on script directories; checked classified software developers' websites (features, demos, forums, etc) & finally could make a list with a few good scripts from which I had to choose the One!

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You may need to put some warning message or an advertisement or .. whatever in only a part of the folders inside your vBulletin forums. I guess there are some modifications that may help but the simpler way is just to edit some templates using a little PHP conditioning.

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Some DDoS attacks are so strong that they just take down your server. The only way you have then to try & get rid of it is to contact your hosting provider to find some solution for you (or pay for DDoS protection). But sometimes the server manages to keep running although under attack, in this case you may be able to do somethings to at least reduce the impact of the DDoS & loads on server while working on a permanent solution. Let’s review some I could figure out from a personal experience..

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I used to use two modifications (or plugins / addons) on vB for default avatars & default signatures, but then I decided to limit the use of mods & uninstalled those two. Still I wanted to keep the features.

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Today I learned to create and add meta tag into my blogs…

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Yesterday I added a track widget into my blog, which would show me each and every visitors location, and from which site he or she comes in…

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Today I learned to add a Contact Me form into my blogs…

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I’ve found that Facebook actually is a good place to promote one’s blog, where I can create group, and add application, to get people noticing my blog…

1. group:

Firstly I’ve given  a name to the group, which is related with my blog, attached URL in the “website” section, then invited all people in my friend lists to join, some of them would join, just to be friendly to me, hehe… Some people might would not respond directly, since not all people would login facebook daily, so I see my group is growing day by day, hehe…

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Now that you made your theme translatable, let’s do the necessary to translate it.

For that you will have to use a translation software, in this guide we’ll use POEdit, so go ahead and download then install it.

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As I said there’s not only one method to internationalize a software but WordPress uses the GetText method & it’s the one we should use for the theme.

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I had really a hard time figuring out how to internationalize a WordPress theme for a “multilingual” site I’m working on & then to “localize” it. All that because the guides I read are made by geeks, & geeks never explain things properly… seriously!

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