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OSCLASS: Listing Categories showing wrong count

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Today I observed some wrong count being displayed against categories on the main page of a site we were still testing. Went to OSCLASS forums and I could not find much info specifically related to this (may be I did not find the right thread). Anyways, I wasted almost an hour when the solution to this was right there in the admin area. If that is the case with you too, then here is what to do. Checks: Confirm the count against a category. Login as admin and check the number of listing (use the filters to filter that particular category). Read more »

OSCLASS: Bender Black theme drop down distortion in item-post.php

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I noticed that there was a distortion in the dropdown menus in the new ad post page (item-post.php).  Used Firefox's "inspect element" to investigate initially, and found duplicate "select a category" entries getting populated though only one is actually displayed. It looks like this: The category dropdown and even locations dropdown seems to expand. At first I thought my theme's (Bender_Black) CSS for messed up. So I re-uploaded my local main.css backup but the problem was still there. Then I thought this might be an issue from some plugins. And voila!  It was. Read more »

Drupal Tips : How to bulk import data to content type in Drupal?

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  This post is an example on how to bulk import data to auto create a content type in Drupal. This process is very useful when you need to create a number of content of the same type. In this example were will be using Feeds Module to achieve that. The example scenario here is that I have created a "student" content type with the fields " Name (as Title), Date of Birth, Registration ID, Gender ". Since the process of adding all students will be a repetitive task, it is best if we import. The content type looks like: Read more »

How to move a WordPress sites to a sub-domain or directory within the same server?

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If you have a WordPress sites that you need to move within the same server, this post might help you. When a WordPress site is moved to a new location on the same server, what is basically changed is the URL to access the site. For this example, suppose you were running WordPress website on the ROOT directory of your host or server, and you would like to move it to a sub-domain or a sub-directory, then follow the following steps. As we are moving the WordPress site within the same server, there is no need to move the database. MOVING THE WORDPRESS FILES Create a sub-domain or sub-directory Read more »

Android SMS app replacement: Revive your SMS app on Android with Messenger from Google

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Many Android users are bored with the default SMS app on their phones. While some devices have good SMS app with quite a number of good features, some don't have good features. Such as, Sony Xperia mid range Android SMS app is far worse that Samsung's. At least, on Samsung's they have a few more features and customizations. Thus the hunt for better SMS apps. I am sure many of such users, may have tried "GO SMS PRO" and similar apps. But don't we get tired of the ads, and "buy this" and buy that" messages on these apps. We like free stuffs, but we don't like ads either. (LOL :D). So try Google Messenger app as a replacement for your default SMS app. The app sleek, stylish and user friendly. You will be glad Google made Messenger instead of pushing you to use Hangouts! Messenger from Google is an app to send and receive SMS and MMS Read more »