Author: Subharanjan

  • Get your website on https and get ranked higher on Google

    Get your website on https and get ranked higher on Google

    In a recent blog, Google has announced that TLS, SSL enabled websites(https://) will be getting added advantages in SEO ranking. In order to make the Internet more safe and secure, Google has started using HTTPS as a ranking signal, that means if you site is HTTPS enabled you will get ranked higher. However they have…

  • How to block the USSD notification/balance update messages on Android smart-phones ? [Solved]

    Problem description: In India, whatever internet plans you take for your smartphones, be it 3G, 2G Internet, GPRS etc. it always keeps randomly disconnecting. Sometimes it reconnects automatically, sometimes it takes a while. So, during this process we keep getting a remaining balance message or notification for the data usage which is nothing but a…

  • Are you missing styles for the default classes in your WordPress theme ?

    Are you missing styles for the default classes in your WordPress theme ? Here are two nice tutorials which provides CSS styling for the standard classes provided in WordPress. http://themeshaper.com/2012/11/12/how-to-reset-rebuild-wordpress-theme-css-define-your-layouts/ http://themeshaper.com/2009/07/07/reset-rebuild-wordpress-theme-css-define-layouts/

  • Matt Mullenweg (the founder of  WordPress) becomes the new CEO of Automattic

    Matt Mullenweg (the founder of WordPress) becomes the new CEO of Automattic

    Matt Mullenweg (the founder of  WordPress) becomes the new CEO of Automattic.  Toni Schneider, a senior executive spearheading Yahoo’s Developer Network was on this position as CEO of Automattic (a company started by Matt Mullenweg of WordPress) for last eight years.  After eight years, I’ve decided to hang up my CEO hat and ask Matt to take over the job. — Toni…

  • How to disable responsiveness in the admin theme of WordPress 3.8

    How to disable responsiveness in the admin theme of WordPress 3.8

    How to disable responsiveness in the admin theme of WordPress 3.8 ? How do I disable responsiveness of WP 3.8 admin ? Is there any way to disable responsiveness ? I want to disable the responsive hiding feature for tablets and mobile for the newly introduced WordPress 3.8 admin back end. The question comes, Why…

  • Do you need an admin interface to stop / disable auto update feature of WordPress ?

    Do you need an admin interface to stop / disable auto update feature of WordPress ?

    Now that the “Automatic update of WordPress core” has been introduced in WP version 3.7, there are some obvious questions those come into mind. Where can I control this automatic update functionality of WordPress 3.7 ? Is there any admin interface for it ? How can I disable auto update of WP ? So, before…

  • Integrate PHP CodeSniffer with NetBeans IDE  [Steps]

    Integrate PHP CodeSniffer with NetBeans IDE [Steps]

    CodeSniffer, an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent, should always be with you while writing code to check and fix the messy things. For those people who use NetBeans IDE to write PHP applications, here are the steps to integrate PHP CodeSniffer with NetBeans IDE. Steps: Open NetBeans IDE. (…

  • How to setup PHP CodeSniffer on Windows machine ?

    How to setup PHP CodeSniffer on Windows machine ?

    How to use CodeSniffer on Windows ? How to setup the PHP CodeSniffer on Windows ? These questions come to mind when you see various articles, tutorials which provides ways/steps to setup this on Linux. So here are simple steps to setup PHP CodeSniffer on Windows. Before going into this, for those who don’t know…

  • How to reduce 404 errors created by ++liker.profile_URL++

    How to reduce 404 errors created by ++liker.profile_URL++

    Are you getting lots of 404 errors in the log because of some urls having patterns like ” ++liker.profile_URL++ ” ? How to reduce 404 errors created by ++liker.profile_URL++ ? Here is the solution to stop those 404 errors and convert those urls to result in 301 permanent redirects to your homepage. Problem: Some days…

  • Lightweight and better responsive navigation menu with “responsive-nav.js”

    Responsive Nav is a tiny JavaScript plugin which weighs only 1.7 KB minified and Gzip’ed, and helps you to create a toggled navigation for small screens. It uses touch events and CSS3 transitions for the best possible performance. It also contains a “clever” workaround that makes it possible to transition from height: 0 to height:…