Create a Powerful Helpdesk Support  System with WordPress

If you are a product development company or website admin wanting to develop a solid and powerful helpdesk / support system with an SEO friendly clean code, you should consider building it on a great framework like WordPress.

Today I am excited to share a very powerful application theme for WordPress that completely transforms the WordPress CMS into a powerful support system. The key advantages of choosing this as an option are:

How to Transfer a WordPress Blog to a new Server or Web Hosting

I have been seeing many queries and requests about transfer / migration of a WordPress blog installation from one server to another server or web hosting account from different webmasters.

There is an increasing demand for a dependable and detailed tutorial for the same. Hence I decided to create a detailed tutorial with screenshots and steps that will clearly explain on how to migrate an already established WordPress blog to a different web hosting server without any issues.

Tutorial Legend:

• OLDserver – The server on which the blog is already installed on.
• NEWserver – The destination server of the new target web hosting company.
• OLDdatabase – The database file of the original blog.
• NEWdatabase – The database of the target blog.

How to Import Large SQL Database files using phpMyadmin

Often migrating websites from one host or domain to another could lead you to situations where you would have to import one Database SQL Dump to another database using programs like phpMyadmin.

While importing smaller databases of size less than 20 MB it would not be an issue using phpMyadmin, but in some cases we would have to import larger databases ranging from 20 MB to even GBs which the phpMyadmin program would not allow us to do. Today I will share an extremely useful light weight application that automatically splits SQL dumps into smaller chunks of your choice that you can effortlessly upload using phpMyadmin.

SQL Dump Splitter is a 180 KB application that gives total control over splitting huge databases into smaller SQL files with ease. With SQL Dump Splitter you can:

Best free open source forum scripts 2011

Today we will list all the popular OS Forum scripts, Below are the list, details and download links. There are hundreds of forum scripts on the web to choose from, to make your work easier, we have reduced the list to a more shorter one. This should give you the freedom to choose from the top 21 forum scripts.

1. PhpBB
2. MyBB
3. Drupal
4. bbPress
5. Vanilla
6. SEO-Board
7. FUDForum
8. PunBB
9. FluxBB
10. Beehive Forum
11. IceBB
12. MiniBB
13. Phorum
14. Simple Machines
15. Extreme Message Board
16. Advanced Electron Forum
17. Quicksilver Forums
18. UseBB
19. Unclassified Newsboard
20. JForum
21. JavaBB

Firebug
Hands down my favorite plugin EVER for a web developer / designer to install on a Firefox. All i would say is start using it and you would be simply amazed by the power that this add-on would give you as a developer/ designer. Firebug helps you to play with your web project’s CSS, JavaScript or HTM and real time editing is made effortless.

Web Developer
Great web development plugin for Mozilla that ads a number of additional web development tools and functions to your Mozilla. You must try this one.

Greasemonkey
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.

Building a online exam website has never been so easy with the help of great plugins that are now available for free on wordpress. These plugins could be installed and configured to set your wodpress online exam website go live.

Some features included are:

• Take users contact details
• Completion notification (Instant, Batched – hourly or daily or not at all)
• Type – Multiple choice or Text input.
• Difficulty – Easy, medium, hard or mixed levels of exam
• Configuration of questions and answers
• Configuration of total calculation, time and passing

3 Best plugins to try out are as below