A friend of mine decided to Join the Wordpress Revolution and purchase the Wordpress Revolution Theme. Overall, he was very happy with the theme. After all, you can’t do a Google search for “Best Wordpress Magazine Theme” without seeing Revolution come up.

However, he had a small problem when he first installed the theme, which turned out to no fault of Revolution and very easy to fix. Upon changing to his shiny, new theme, he got the below error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_content_limit()

The fix was dead simple. All he had to do was install and activate the Limit Content plugin that comes with the Revolution Theme. That’s it. That’s the fix.

Sometimes the best solutions are the easiest. After activating the plugin, everything worked smoothly and the Revolution Theme is just plain gorgeous.

If you would like to Take Your Blog to a Higher Level I would highly recommend the Revolution Theme.

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I get a lot of questions on how I created my Popular page on Searchmarked.com. I use a combination of Lester Chan’s wp-postviews plugin and some thinking outside the box (literally) to accomplish this.

This recipe requires that plugin to work so follow the steps below to get started:

-Download wp-postviews

-Install wp-postviews on your Wordpress blog

-Read the usage instructions

-I used the below scenario for my page

From the readme:

• To Display Most Viewed Post
• Use:


<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed')): ?>
<ul>
<?php get_most_viewed(); ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

The first value you pass in is what you want to get, ‘post’, ‘page’ or ‘both’.

The second value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.

Default: get_most_viewed(’both’, 10);

-Now the trick is to actually get this code on the page. As you probably know, you can’t put php code straight into a wordpress page or blog post. This is where you have to think outside the box (the text box in this case).

-You need to create a new template and assign it to the page. The template will contain everything that needs to show up on the page, including the blog skin itself. Nothing will actually be written in the page itself (hence thinking outside the box).

-To create your own page template all you need to do is use the following code at the top of your php file:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Popular
*/
?>

-The rest is just normal php and html.

-Our template will use the code from /wp-content/themes/YourTheme/page.php as its base.

-Copy and paste the code from /wp-content/themes/YourTheme/page.php into a new file named popular.php if you wish.

-Make room at the top for the following code to make popular.php into a page template:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Popular
*/
?>

-Look for a line similar to the following:

<?php the_content(); ?>

-Place the code for your wp-postviews page under this line.

-For example, here is the code for my Popular page:

<h2>Below are the top 10 posts on Searchmarked.com.</h2>
<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed')): ?>
<ul>
<?php get_most_viewed(); ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

-Now save this file as popular.php or whatever you want to name it.

-Upload it to your /wp-content/themes/YourTheme/ directory.

-Now create a new page for your popular posts and name it whatever you like (I named mine popular).

-Leave the page blank and choose the page template that you just uploaded for it.

-Now publish the page with the new “popular.php” template and you’re all done.

That’s it! You should now have a popular posts page. Happy Posting!

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I don’t remember exactly where I found this little hack or I would have put the usual google query with a link to the source in this post. So whoever you are out there, thank you. I love the WP-Postviews plugin, but I found out after some Googling that it does not work with PHP 4 (only PHP 5). You will get the following error:

MBCS in html_entity_decode()!

Fortunately, if your site uses utf-8 encoding you can use the following one line hack to work around the PHP 4 incompatibility.

Make sure you make a backup of your wp-postviews.php file before you edit it.

-Open up wp-postviews.php in your favorite text editor.

-Look for the following line:

$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'));

-Replace the line with the following:

$text = utf8_decode($text);

That’s it! WP-Postviews should work perfectly now. It did for me at least . Thanks for the awesome plugin Lester!

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This tip requires that you host your Wordpress blog yourself and it’s easier to accomplish with Wordpress 2.5.

I get a few questions on how I implement the Google Custom Search that I have on Searchmarked.com under the Bookmark Search section. It’s actually quite easy.

-The first thing you need to do is set up a Google Custom Search.

-Once the search is set up, go to your Google Custom Search control panel and click on the code link.

-To have the results show up on your site, choose host the results on your website and the iframe option.

-Choose the url you would like the search results to show up on your site (you will need to create this page on your blog).

-You should now have two code boxes. One for the search box and one for the search results page.

-You need to create a private results page on your Wordpress blog by selecting “keep this page private.”

-Make sure this page name matches the one you used in the url for the Google Custom Search.

-The search box code is what forms your Search Box. Mine is implemented on a separate page by pasting the code in HTML view on the page, but you could just as easily paste this code in a text widget on your sidebar.

-Remember that private search results page you created? That is where you should paste the Search Results Code.

-Now publish the Search Results page (keeping it private) and you are all set.

That’s it! Happy Custom Searching!

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Some of the readers of this blog have been asking me how I wrap the text around the adsense block in the beginning of the posts. After some Googling, I found an article to get me started over at ErikVossman.com. The summary is listed below.

With my particular theme, all I did was put the adsense code between two divs. The <div> element turns the text in between the <div> and </div> tags into an object that can be manipulated by styles. The easiest way to explain it would be to show the code.
<div style="float: left;">300x250 Adsense Code Here</div>
That is using the raw adsense code. If you are using Phil Hord’s Adsense Inline Plugin, the code would look similar to the line below:
<div style="float: left;"><!--adsense--></div>

That’s it! I basically told the 300×250 adsense block to float on the left of the post (allowing the post text to wrap around the right side of the block). Happy Blogging!

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If you are trying to use something like Google Custom Search on your Wordpress blog, you need to have a search results page set up in Wordpress to use the iframe Search configuration. This is fine, but you probably don’t want people to be able to navigate to that page via your navigation menu. The steps below will allow you to exclude the page from the Navigation list.

-First note the ID of the page that you want to exclude in the “Manage -> Pages” section of the Wordpress admin console.

-Find the file where you have used wp_list_pages() (In my case it was in the sidebar_navigation.php file).

-Add the &exclude=page id option to the wp_list_pages() entry.
For example, my entry looks like the one below for a page with the ID of 4.
wp_list_pages('sort_column=post_date&title_li=&exclude=4');

That’s it! Your page should be excluded from the navigation list now. If this helped you configure one of your own sites I would love to hear about it in the comments!

Happy Blogging!

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