Some days ago I was just going through linkedin and trying to improve my profile. Then I saw an option to ask for recommendation from my colleagues. After that I suddenly used that option to get recommendation from the person with whom I started my professional life. And yesterday I got a recommendation from him saying Read more

Localhost is the best place for developers to built website and test it. But for testing email functionality, we can face problem. By default localhost (xampp or wamp) doesn’t sends email, so we have to configure SMTP  to make it work. This can be done in few simple steps:

1. Open “php.ini” file. For WAMP, it is located in wampbinphpphp*.* and for XAMP, it’s in xamppphpphp.ini

2. Now search [mail function] in the php.ini file. You find values like this: Read more

After the algorithm updates like Penguin and Panda from Google, the traditional way of ranking website is dead, specially through Link Building. People used to depend on link building for ranking their websites, but now this is not the case. The scenario has changed and the job has become more challenging. After these updates, most of the people are wondering how to rank well in search engines, what’s the alternative of link building. Following is a very good infographic from SEO Peace which lists 11 important points that will help to rank website without over optimizing it. Read more

WordPress, a popular CMS, where you can find plugins for almost every requirement of yours. I was also in need of a plugin which would display latest posts from a specific category. I googled it and found out many that fulfill my requirement. But the problem was I have to show those post lists in homepage only. If I use widget/plugin, it will get displayed in sidebar of all pages. So, the solution was to use code and make it display in homepage only.

I checked the function reference page of wordpress and did little bit research. Afterwards I coded as shown below which worked like a charm: Read more