Albanian Web Developer

The best WordPress hosting provider

By klevisi | Published: August 21, 2015

WP Engine! By far the best.

This statement comes from me, a guy who is into WordPress development since 2008. During my career I have used a lot of hosting providers like Hostgator, Siteground, Rackspace, BlueHost, DreamHost, JustHost etc.

So why do I think that WP Engine is the best?

Here are 3 features that blew me away:

1. Modern interface, which is not the classic Cpanel.

2. The backup system. Automatic backups are done every day. You can also do a manual backup with the click of a button.

3. This is the best feature: One click Staging (development) deployment and vice versa. With one click you can copy the whole site into a staging area which you can access with yourdomain. staging.wpengine.com . Then, with one other click you can copy your changes from the development area to the live site.

Other features include:

* CDN Integration
* A global Cache system so you don’t need to install cache plugins yourself.

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WordPress Add Pagination

By klevisi | Published: June 8, 2012

The easiest method I found to add a good pagination:

1. Install WP-PageNavi plugin.
2. In the template file, the loop should be like this:

<?php
// The Query,
$the_query = new WP_Query( 'category_name=blog&amp;paged='.$paged );

// The Loop which loops through all the posts of category
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?
endwhile;
//call wp-pagenavi plugin
wp_pagenavi( array('query' =>$the_query ));

// Reset Post Data
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

3. Change how many posts do you want to display per page in the admin, Settigs/Reading/Blog pages show at most.

That’s it, very easy to implement.

Posted in Wordpress | 1 Comment

Magento – There has been an error processing your request FIX

By klevisi | Published: May 10, 2012

There has been an error processing your request

Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.

Error log record number: 911585915504

A solution I found to this problem is by adding a php.ini file in the root of your magento installation, and adding the following code in it:

memory_limit = 256M
max_execution_time = 18000
magic_quotes_gpc = off
flag session.auto_start = off
zlib.output_compression = on
suhosin.session.cryptua = off
zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = off
extension=mcrypt.so
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
zend_extension=”/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.9/php-5.2.x/ZendOptimizer.so”

Posted in Magento, Open Source for Web | 6 Comments

Remove value from input with jQuery

By klevisi | Published: February 19, 2012

This jQuery code removes the value of a input text type when the user clicks on the input.


$(document).ready(function(){
$('input:text').each(function() {
var label = $(this).val();
$(this).focus(function() {
if($(this).val() == label) {
$(this).val('');
}
});
$(this).blur(function() {
if($(this).val() == '') {
$(this).val(label);
}
});
});
});

Posted in JavaScript | 1 Comment

Facebook app beginner code example

By klevisi | Published: December 6, 2011

Since it was not so easy for me to get things up and running, I wanted to share it for other developers. This code gets all videos that are uploaded to a page. First you should download the php sdk from github.


<?php
require_once 'facebook.php';

$app_id = "226102437478452"; //Your application ID
$canvas_page = "http://apps.facebook.com/your_canvas_page/"; //Your canvas page
$secret = '1b919de960ba93165650c2385a5b1c7e'; //Your application secret

$auth_url = "http://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id="
. $app_id . "&amp;redirect_uri=" . urlencode($canvas_page);
$signed_request = $_REQUEST["signed_request"];
list($encoded_sig, $payload) = explode('.', $signed_request, 2);
$data = json_decode(base64_decode(strtr($payload, '-_', '+/')), true);

if (empty($data["user_id"])) {
echo("<script> top.location.href='" . $auth_url . "'</script>");
} else {

//this uses the facebook object from facebook.php
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => $app_id,
'secret' => $secret,
));
$user_id = $facebook->getUser();

//page id
$page_id = '134501956646782';
$page_data = $facebook->api('/'.$page_id.'/videos/uploaded');

print_r($page_data);

}

?>

Posted in Facebook | 2 Comments

Albanian Fried Dough with cheese and squashes

By klevisi | Published: October 24, 2011

Albanian Fried Dough in the pan
Ingredients
1 egg
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking soda
400 gr flour
500 gr yoghurt
1 or 2 squashes
100 gr or more white cheese

Mix the egg with the yoghurt. Add the flour slowly and continue mixing. Cut the cheese in tiny pieces and put them in the mix. Grind the squashes and add them into the mix.
Continue mixing…
With a spoon, grab some of the mixture and put it in the hot cooking oil (I prefer olive oil).

The result:
Albanian Fried Dough

Posted in Cooking | 2 Comments

My ASUS G73SW Republic Of Gamers Laptop

By klevisi | Published: October 13, 2011

A week ago I purchased for $1450 the ASUS G73SW 4.4Kg desktop replacement laptop and I love it.

It’s not a laptop you can travel with though.

Here are the main technical specifications:

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM Processor
RAM: 8Gb DDR3
HD: 1Tb
Optical Drive: Blu-Ray DVD Combo
Display: 17.3″
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M 1.5Gb

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My very first web site

By klevisi | Published: September 24, 2011

This is the very first website I’ve developed in Joomla 1.5. I made some fixes because the site got hacked, the english version wasn’t working. I noticed that 2 installations of Joomla were used, one for each language 😀 . For the existence of multilanguage components? I didn’t know at that time. I’ve deleted the english version, was unuseful, then installed the Joomfish component, added the translations, and that’s it .