But what happens if you’ve finished testing your PHP applications, no longer need it running, but don’t want to remove it? As with many aspects of it, that has already been thought of and they provide you with a handy batch file that will stop all services and prevent them from starting so the install lays dormant until it needs to be used again.

At the time of writing it comes bundled with Apache 2.2.11, MySQL 5.1.36, and PHP 5.3.0 so is kept well updated – but you can even upgrade/downgrade any of the individual components if needed to enable you to run older applications or have a specific environment for testing. Obviously it hasn’t been produced with a live environment in mind, but should you wish to host your own small website from home this is a perfect solution and means that even if your PC blows up you can quickly re-install and restore your data to it’s previous glory with very little configuration!

This app is definately worth a look, and well worth writing about.

• http://www.wampserver.com/en/

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Open up “home.php” in the root of the themes folder.

Find the following line:
elseif ($featured2_cat == '0') $query2 = 'showposts=' . arras_get_option('featured2_count')

And change it to:
elseif ($featured2_cat == '0') $query2 = 'showposts=' . arras_get_option('featured2_count') . '&offset=4';

This will offset the “Featured Articles #2″ section by 4 posts. For me this is perfect because i have four posts in the first “Featured Articles” section.

To then do the “Older News” (or whatever it is called) section, find the following line:

'showposts' => ( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) )
);

And change it to:

'showposts' => ( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) )
) . '&offset=13';

This will offset the news by 13 posts, because i have 4 “Featured Articles #1″ and 9 “Featured Articles #2″ which means in total i need to skip 13 posts.

Hope this helps people!

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Below is the code i use for the “More from this category” on the right hand side, if you would like to use it simply add it at any point you wish within your sidebar.php file that resides in your themes directory (e.g. /themes/mythemename/comments.php).

<?php
if ( is_single() ) :
global $post;
$categories = get_the_category();
foreach ($categories as $category) :
?>
<li><h2>More from this category</h2>
<ul class=”bullets”>
<?php
$posts = get_posts(‘numberposts=10&category=’. $category->term_id);
foreach($posts as $post) :
?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<li><strong><a href=”<?php echo get_category_link($category->term_id);?>” title=”View all posts filed under <?php echo $category->name; ?>”>Archive for ‘<?php echo $category->name; ?>’ &raquo;</a></strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
<?php endforeach; endif ; ?>

A quick explanation
Starting at the beginning, this piece of code will initially check to see whether it is running on a “single” page, meaning it checks to see if it is on an article/blog page (not the front page, or a static page). It then get’s the category of the current page and requests 10 more of the most recent posts from the same category (numberposts=10, this can be changed to whatever you like). After that it uses a loop to display each link, and after all that it will display a link to the “Archive” for that category just in case the displayed articles aren’t interesting enough.

CSS
As can be seen, the code uses the class “bullets” for styling, here is the CSS i use which you could copy into your style.css file and modify to suit your theme. If you already have a “bullets” class you can of course rename the class in the PHP code above to something else.

.bullets li {
background: url(images/sidebar-bullet.gif) no-repeat !important;
padding-left: 16px !important;
}

If anyone would like to know how to do this using Images (like in my “Recent Related Articles” section on every page, then drop me a comment and ask me to post the code. I would be more than happy to do it, but am just not sure if anyone actually needs it.

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- Significantly better battery life
- Fewer call drops
- Bug fixes
- Faster backups to iTunes
- No App crashes

No mention of background push notifications were made, however, which were originally planned for a September release. Let’s hope this finally fixes the lag when selecting a contact after composing an SMS message…it could happen!

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So, i asked and searched around and nobody seemed to have an answer for me. I then proceeded to start hacking away and have now managed to add a “Thumb URL” inside the upload tool which can be used for copying/pasting into the custom field of your choice.

An example can be seen on the right.

Want to implement this for yourself?
It’s really pretty simple once you know where to look, but to be on the safe side make a backup copy of the media.php file before you start editing it so you can always revert back should something go horribly wrong.

1. Find and open /wp-admin/includes/media.php
2. Find the following area of code:

<thead class=’media-item-info’>

<td class=’A1B1′ rowspan=’4′><img class=’thumbnail’ src=’$thumb_url’ alt=’Thumbnail’ /></td>

<td>$filename</td>

</tr>

<tr><td>$post->post_mime_type</td></tr>

<tr><td>” . mysql2date($post->post_date, get_option(‘time_format’)) . “</td></tr>

<tr><td>” . apply_filters(‘media_meta’, ”, $post) . “</td></tr>

</thead>

<tbody>\n”;

 

3. Add the following line above </thead>:

<tr><td colspan=2><br /><label>Thumb URL: </label> ;  <input type=’text’ name=’thumburl[$post-/>ID][url]‘ value=’” . $thumb_url . “‘ /><br /><br /></td></tr>

 

4. Save the file, your code should now look like this:

<thead class=’media-item-info’>

<tr>

<td class=’A1B1′ rowspan=’4′><img class=’thumbnail’ src=’$thumb_url’ alt=’Thumbnail’ /></td>

<td>$filename</td>

</tr>

<tr><td>$post->post_mime_type</td></tr>

<tr><td>” . mysql2date($post->post_date, get_option(‘time_format’)) . “</td></tr>

<tr><td>” . apply_filters(‘media_meta’, ”, $post) . “</td></tr>

<tr><td colspan=2><br /><label>Thumb URL:</label>   <input type=’text’ name=’thumburl[$post->ID][url]‘ value=’” . $thumb_url . “‘ /><br /><br /></td></tr>

</thead>
<tbody>\n”; 

That’s it, you’re done! If you have any suggestions or questions/comments, please feel free to leave them below.

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