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How to implement Threaded Comments in Wordpress Themes

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

In Wordpress 2.7 Features, a new feature – Threaded Comments is introduced.

The problem is that most of the wordpress bloggers are facing is that their theme doesn’t support Threaded or Nested Comments.

To check whether Threaded Comments is supported by your current theme or not, Follow the below steps:

  1. Upgrade Wordpress is to 2.7 version, if not yet upgraded.
  2. Login to Wordpress admin and go to Settings -> Discussion
  3. Check on “Enable threaded (nested) comments ‘n’ levels deep”.
  4. Click Save changes to enable Threaded Comments.
  5. View any post of your blog that contains few comments.

If you see a Reply link after each comment like shown below, then your Wordpress Theme supports Threaded Comments otherwise it doesn’t support:

You will see reply links for every individual comment

You will see reply links for every individual comment

My current theme doesn’t support it. I have made some changes to comments.php and style.css to support Threaded Comments. But, the changes are not yet live on my blog. I have done whole testing on my Local PC and the screenshot is taken from there. I need to do little bit of tinkering in CSS. By the way, if you are new to CSS then Learn CSS by reading this Book. Download It Free!

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How to Open UIF Files?

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Recently, i downloaded a file with an extension .UIF. I have not encountered this extension before. I did some search and google and found about UIF extension. Before letting you know how to open UIF file, i would like to give some information about UIF File.

UIF, or Universal Image Format, is an image format for backing up to CD/DVD. A UIF file is actually a MagicISO CD/DVD image file. To view it contents, the UIF file has to be mounted. It is an image file like ISO which is most common format.

You will find many formats for creating images files of CD/DVDs. UIF is better than other format because of its better encryption and also has better compression.

MagicISO is the software which can open UIF File. It is not a free software. Download a trial version. The restriction with trial version is that you can only open UIF files upto 300 MB.

Here are the steps:
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Speed Up Downloads using Download Accelerator Plus 9.0.0.5

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

I know that not every internet user uses Download Manager to download files, music or videos.

There are few disadvantages of not using Download Manager:

  1. Download speed is slow.
  2. If Download stops for some reason, then you have to start all over again.

I have been using DAP (Download Accelerator Plus) from a long time. I recommend windows users to install Download Accelerator Plus and start using it.

Features of Download Accelerator Plus 9.0.0.5:

DAP 9.0

DAP 9.0

  1. Accelerates your download speed so you can get all your favorite files, applications, and videos as fast as possible.
  2. Increases download speed by downloading a file in multiple chunks with simultaneous connections
  3. Provides powerful privacy, security, and file management tools.
  4. Easy to use, you can integrate DAP with your favorite browsers like Internet Explorer,Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
  5. It includes a free YouTube downloader; free video converter for iPod or PSP

Download Download Accelerator Plus

I would like to hear from you. Which download manager do you use?

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How to Find out Exact Opposite Point on Earth with Google Maps

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The title of the posts says that you can find out the exactly opposite point on earth. To find out, you just need to visit a website which uses Google Maps to plot a map and show the exactly opposite location on Earth’s Surface.

The exact opposite point on earth from Hyderabad, India will take you to somewhere in the middle of Pacific Ocean.

Opposite Point of Hyderabad, India takes me us to Pacific Ocean

Opposite Point of Hyderabad, India takes me us to Pacific Ocean

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How to Convert Videos with Any Video Converter

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

These days there are number of video formats available on the internet. Lets say you have a video which is in FLV format and want to use some tool like Windows Movie Maker to make a movie. The tool doesn’t support FLV video format.

You need a Video Convector tool to convert the FLV Video to WMV movie format. There are quite a lot of Video Convector software that allows you to convert video files between various formats but most of them need to be purchased.

Any Video Converter is a free professional video converter which can convert video files between various formats with fast conversion speed while retaining the video quality at its best.

Any Video Converter

Any Video Converter

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