Problem: Add New Custom Field Doesn’t Work at all. When you click on “Add Custom Field” nothing happens!

Solution: Refer to your Theme’s Function file (functions.php) located in your theme directory. Remove any blank lines from the file functions.php

It works!

Thank you Cory for sharing the plugin hack to make it work.

Bug: The Thumbnail for Excerpt plugin showing the same thumbnail image with all the posts (with Wordpress 2.8.2+)

Solution: Edit the plugin in plugin editor. Replace lines 28 & 29 with this:

global $wp_query, $wpdb, $post;
$id = $post->ID;

The actual lines of code look like this

global $wp_query, $wpdb;
$id = $wp_query->post->ID;

Replace these lines with

global $wp_query, $wpdb, $post;
$id = $post->ID;

#menu_id li.current_page_item a{
    background:#2E8DE6;
}

Note: Be sure to replace #menu_id with the id of your navigation bar. In this case, the list of my pages is contained in a div with id menu_id

A simple tweak below can fix this bug and make the Featured Content Gallery on the Yamidoo Theme sliding

Open the Main Index File: /wp-content/themes/yamidoo/index.php
(assuming that you have uploaded the theme under yamidoo folder)

Search for these 2 lines (somewhere near line number 36 on index.php file):

</div><!– thumbs-feature –>

</div><!– #headline –>

Right BEFORE these two lines, add this line:

<a class=”next” href=”#”></a>

If you want to control the autoslider, in your header.php file, there is one such line:
autorotateconfig: [1000, 0]

The first value (default: 1000) controls the speed (in miliseconds). 1000 = 1 second.
The second value (default: 0) controls how many cycles the slider should have. If you leave it 0 – it will autoslide over and over again, an infinite amount of times.

It require a small tweak in wp_trim_excerpt function.

Open your wordpress file /wp-includes/formatting.php

Go to line number 1482. The wp_trim_excerpt function would read like this

BEFORE

function wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
if ( '' == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content('');

$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );

$text = apply_filters(’the_content’, $text);
$text = str_replace(’]]>’, ‘]]>’, $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = apply_filters(’excerpt_length’, 55);
$words = explode(’ ‘, $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, [...]);
$text = implode(’ ‘, $words);
}
}
return $text;
}

AFTER (refer to the modified text in red)

function wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
if ( ” == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content(”);
$read_link=’<a href=”‘. get_permalink().’”>’;
$end_read_link=”</a>”;
$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );

$text = apply_filters(’the_content’, $text);
$text = str_replace(’]]>’, ‘]]&gt;’, $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = apply_filters(’excerpt_length’, 55);
$words = explode(’ ‘, $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, ‘…’.$read_link.’[read more]‘.$end_read_link);
$text = implode(’ ‘, $words);
}
}
return $text;
}

Cheers…you are done!

The list of great Wordpress Plugins is countless but still I have tried to collect a list of “Some” of the BEST Wordpress Plugins I have used so far

1. WP-TREE
This Widget-enabled plugin is highly configurable and can show the Categories, Links, Pages in a Tree menu structure.

Download Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dtree-30/

2. Featured Content Gallery
This plugin can fetch images from your specified post categories and display them nicely as an image gallery with rollover text.
Demo: http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com
Download Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-content-gallery/

Create a new style li.bypostauthor and add your styling.


li.bypostauthor {
/* CSS styles for author comments */
}

li.byuser {
/* CSS styles for registered users comments */
}

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Online travel sales in India will nearly quadruple to $2 billion in 2010, according to Euromonitor. The online travel market is growing in several Asian countries, thanks to rising Internet use in large cities.

India will be Asia’s fastest growing market for online travel retail by 2010, according to global market analyst Euromonitor International. Other markets topping the table include Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia and China, as online travel retail takes off in Asia.

The online travel retail market in India is expected to boom over the next five years, with Internet-based travel retail transactions increasing by an incredible 271% between 2005 and 2010. Euromonitor International predicts that online travel retail sales generated in India will exceed US$2 billion in 2010 alone.

“High computer ownership rates and large urban populations provide the ideal infrastructure for Internet services,” said Parita Chitakasem of Euromonitor. “With double-digit growth forecast in the number of urban households between 2006 and 2010, India is showing great potential for online businesses and as a result, great potential for online travel retail.”

New baby-boomer market emerges for online travel retailers

In its report, Abacus emphasised that there are currently around 62,000 physical travel agencies in Asia, up from around 52,000 in 2003 according to Euromonitor. Offline travel sales make up a healthy 89% (or US$218 billion) of the total Asia Pacific travel market, compared to the 11% (US$26 billion) gained in online sales, according to 2007 projections from EyeforTravel Research.

“This is no reason for the region’s traditional travel agents to be complacent however. The offline share of the travel market has been growing at just 2.3% CAGR from 2002-2007, compared to the bounding 49% CAGR recorded by online sales over the same period (EyeForTravel). Despite this rapid growth, Abacus estimates that less than half the region’s current travel agents have any web presence at all and fewer than 10% have websites with real-time transaction facilities,” stated Abacus in a release.

But with online travel bookings in Asia Pacific projected to grow from US$15.9 billion in 2005 to US$55 billion by 2010 (EyeForTravel, The Asia Pacific Online Travel Report 2007), traditional travel agencies who ignore the changes heralded by Travel 2.0 are playing with fire.

“Travel is an emotional decision, so having a human contact makes an important difference. Many people feel more secure when dealing with a real person, a real agent,” says Don Birch, Abacus President and CEO

Euromonitor International also predicts that online travel companies in Asia will benefit from a recent shift in demographic usage of the Internet, to increasingly include older travellers. The over-65 generation in Asia is becoming more adept at using the Internet and as such, they should be a target consumer group for all online travel companies, particularly as over 65s typically have high disposable income levels to spend on expensive or long-awaited holidays.

At present, Japan is leading the way by offering Internet services tailored to its ageing population. Euromonitor’s Chitakasem comments, “In Japan, there has been a rise in computer schools that cater specifically for people over 60, plus a growing number of websites aimed at senior bloggers. Although it is only early days in Asia for this emerging trend, it is clearly not a development to be ignored”.

References:
http://www.hotelmarketing.com
http://travelstartups.com
http://www.phocuswright.com
http://www.euromonitor.com

Online travel sector growth in India was established and driven by Indian Railways, and the second phase of growth was lead by airlines, predominantly Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) like Air Deccan, Spicejet and Kingfisher. This is also a major driver of online travel bookings in other Asian countries. LCCs in India today channel over 60% of their business through their own supplier-direct websites. Online hotel bookings are predicted to grow rapidly in the next 5 years, and on Online Travel Agent (OTA) sites. In fact it’s predicted hotel distribution will grow from 45% to 56% via intermediaries by 2010 in Asia Pacific. In India, the figures are even more dramatic, with growth predicted to grow from 35% (2005) distribution via OTAs today, to 57% by 2010.

Not only are hotels a relative latecomer online, but OTAs themselves represent the third phase of online development as the market matures. Today OTA sales account for less than 16% of the total online travel market.

The scope for growth in online travel sector is immense. While more than 65% of the tickets are sold online in the US, online sales account for less than 10% in Asia Pacific.

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