Only for plugins developers !

Tested on WordPress 3.2.1

Please use this script with care.

Using the WPunplugged Script

If you created a plugin that hangs your WordPress installation, you can try the WPunplugged Script.

It is not a Plugin. It is a PHP script.

Warnings

You do not need to be logged in to use it. If you could login, you wouldn’t need the script.

Place this in the root of your WordPress installation. Do not upload this to your WordPress Plugins directory.

Delete the script when you are done for security reasons.

wpunplugged screenshot

Directions for use

Save the script below as a file called WPunplugged.php to the root of your WordPress installation (the same directory that contains wp-config.php).

Open in your browser http://example.com/WPunplugged.php.

Follow the instructions to activate or deactivate plugins. It’s easy : there are only two buttons.

Delete WPunplugged.php from your server when you are done. Do not leave it on your server as someone else could use it to manage your WordPress installation.

<?php

/*

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    Plugin Name: WPunplugged

    Plugin URI: http://www.pluslike.com


    Description: Wpunplugged manages wordpress plugin outside wp

    Version: 1.1

    Author: PlusLike

    Author URI: http://www.pluslike.com

*/

$path_cfg="wp-config.php";

$path_func="wp-includes/functions.php";

$path_plug="wp-admin/includes/plugin.php";

$msg_err_start="Are you in the 'wordpress' directory?";

global$wpdb;

if(!@include($path_cfg)) die("Error: $path_cfg not found. $msg_err_start");

if(!@include_once($path_func)) die("Error: $path_func not found. $msg_err_start");

if(!@include_once($path_plug)) die("Error: $path_plug not found. $msg_err_start");

if(!defined('DB_NAME')) die("ERROR: DB_NAME not defined. $msg_err_start");

functionmain() {

$msg_err_checked="No item was selected";

$msg_ok="Successful !";

$my_plug_path= WP_PLUGIN_DIR;

        if(count($_POST) == 0)

        {

            $answer="<div id='message' class='updated fade' style='width:50%; margin: 0 auto;text-align:center; color: #00529B; background-color: #BDE5F8; border: solid 1px #00529B'><p><strong>On the left column there are active plugins. On the right column the inactive plugins.</strong></p></div>";

        }

        if(isset($_POST['Submit1']))

        {

            $plug_list= $_POST['plugact'];

            $answer= ( empty( $plug_list) ? '<div id="message" style="width:50%; margin: 0 auto;textalign:center"><p><strong>'."$msg_err_checked".'</strong></p></div>': '');

            if( empty( $answer) )

            {

                foreach($plug_listas$item)

                {

                    $path_full_plug=$my_plug_path.'/'.$item;

                    deactivate_plugins($path_full_plug);

                }

            $answer.="<div id='message' class='updated fade' style='width:50%; margin: 0 auto;text-align:center; color: #4F8A10; background-color:#DFF2BF; border: solid 1px #4F8A10'><p><strong>$msg_ok</strong></p></div>";

            }

        }

        if(isset($_POST['Submit2']))

        {

            $plug_list= $_POST['plug_no_act'];

            $answer= ( empty( $plug_list) ? '<div id="message" style="width:50%; margin: 0 auto;text-align:center"><p><strong>'.$msg_err_checked.'</strong></p></div>': '');

            if( empty( $answer) )

            {

                foreach($plug_listas$item)

                {

                    $path_full_plug=$my_plug_path.'/'.$item;

                    activate_plugins($path_full_plug);

                }

            $answer.="<div id='message' class='updated fade' style='width:50%; margin: 0 auto;text-align:center; color: #4F8A10; background-color: #DFF2BF; border: solid 1px #4F8A10'><p><strong>$msg_ok</strong></p></div>";

            }

        }

        return( empty( $answer) ? false : $answer);

    }

$answer= main();

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"dir="ltr"lang="en-US">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

<title>WPunplugged - an emergency plugin management -</title>

<link rel='stylesheet'href='wp-admin/load-styles.php?c=1&amp;dir=ltr&amp;load=global,wp-admin&amp;ver=dcd4e2bc8b3d4685019b468cdef8a60d'type='text/css'media='all'/>

<link rel='stylesheet'id='colors-css'href='wp-admin/css/colors-fresh.css?ver=20110121'type='text/css'media='all'/>

<!--[iflte IE 7]>

<link rel='stylesheet'id='ie-css'href='wp-admin/css/ie.css?ver=20101102'type='text/css'media='all'/>

<![endif]-->

</head>

<body>

<div class='wrap'>

<h2><center>WPunplugged - an emergency plugin management -</h2></center><br>

<div id="message"class="updated fade"style="width:80%; margin: 0 auto;text-align:center;"><p><strong>

Your useof this script is at your sole risk. All code is provided "as -is", without any warranty, whether express orimplied, of its accuracy, completeness. <br>

Further, I shall not be liable forany damages you may sustain by using this script, whether direct, indirect, special, incidental orconsequential.

<br>No leave it, no useit in a production environment

</strong></p></div><br>

<?php

echo$answer;

?>

<br>

<div id="bigbox"class="postbox "style="width: 60%;margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; padding: 5px 20px 20px 20px;">

<div class="inside">

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>"method="post">

<?php

$installed_plugins= get_plugins();

foreach($installed_pluginsas$pkey=> $pval)

{

    if(is_plugin_active($pkey))

    {

    $tmp_act[]=$pkey;

    } else

    {

    $tmp_no_act[]=$pkey;

    }

}

?>

<div id="box_sx"style="width: 45%; float: left;margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;padding:5px 10px 10px 10px;">

<h3>Active plugin(s)</h3>

<ul style="text-align: left;">

<?php

if( empty( $tmp_act) )

{

    echo"<br><br><center><strong>No active plugins</center></strong>";

}

else

{

    foreach($tmp_actas$pkey=> $pval)

    {

        echo'<li><label><input type="checkbox" name="plugact[]" value="'.$pval.'" />'."\n",$pval,'<br></label></li>';

    }

}

?>

</ul>

<br>

</div>

<div id="box_dx"style="width: 45%; float: right;margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;padding:5px 10px 10px 10px;">

<h3>Inactive plugin(s)</h3>

<ul style="text-align: left;">

<?php

if( empty( $tmp_no_act) )

{

    echo"<br><br><center><strong>No inactive plugins</center></strong>";

}

else

{

    foreach($tmp_no_actas$pkey=> $pval)

    {

        echo'<li><label><input type="checkbox" name="plug_no_act[]" value="'.$pval.'" />'."\n",$pval,'<br></label></li>';

    }

}

?>

</ul>

<br>

</div>

<br class="clear"/>

<input class="button-primary"type="submit"name="Submit1"value="Deactivate Plugin(s)"style="float:left; margin-left:100px;"/>

<input class="button-primary"type="submit"name="Submit2"value="Activate Plugin(s)"style="float:right;margin-right:100px;"/>

<br class="clear"/>

</div>

</div>

</form>

</body>

Hence you might need to test your work before you launch it into the public domain of the Internet. This can be done by using a local web server, which acts like a real online web server where you can test your projects offline.

Best Local Web Server Software for Windows

# WAMP (Link) – Best Local Web Server Software for Windows

WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin to easily manage your databases.

WampServer installs automatically (installer), and its usage is very intuitive. You will be able to tune your server without even touching the setting files. WampServer is the only packaged solution that will allow you to reproduce your production server. Once WampServer is installed, you have the possibility to add as many Apache, MySQL and PHP releases as you want.

# XAMPP (Link) – Easy to Use Local Web Servet localHost Tool

Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

XAMPP is a free installer that has Apache / PHP / MYsql / perl and more integrated so you won’t have to configure anything yourself.

# USBWebserver (Link) – Portable Web Sever Software

USBWebserver is a combination of the popular webserver software: Apache, MySQL, Php and PhpMyAdmin. With USBWebserver it is possible to develop and show your php websites, everywhere and anytime The advantage of USBWebserver is, you can use it from USB of even CD

USBWebserver is perfect for:

• Show a offline version of your website
• Anywhere and anytime develop php websites
• No need for expensive hosting
• Working at multiple locations at projects
• A good test before putting your website online
• And many more

# MoWeS Portable (Link) – Select Packages for Your Local Web Server

MoWeS Portable II is a free software that enables you to quickly set up a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) system on any Windows system.
Additionally, you can download so-called packages. Packages contain application software, such as TYPO3, MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla!, etc., and are installed automatically.

These are practically useful if you are an developer and provide web application development services, which lets both you and your clients to test the software/scripts locally on a PC before deploying it online for analysis and bug testing.

1. Download & Unpack

   Download and install PHP from http://windows.php.net/download/, you should grab the newest VC6 x86 Thread Safe zip package (VC6 is on the bottom half of the page).

   My file was named: php-5.2.7-Win32-VC6-x86.zip

   Warning against PHP Installer

   I would NOT use the “PHP Installer” version. The Installer version (even though it’s larger) is missing some of the library/extension files you need for MySQL and it seems to have other random problems every time I try it. After multiple tries over several versions, my conclusion it is NOT worth the tiny bit of time it saves. So I highly recommend you use the PHP Zip Package version.

   Warning VC6 -vs- VC9 (PHP 5.2 -vs- PHP 5.3)

   PHP 5.3 is no longer available in a VC6 and you have to use old PHP 5.2 to get an officially Apache supported Window’s version (there’s warnings all down the left side of that download page). However, VC9 did work for me on Apache 2.2.17 with Windows7. However, I could not get VC9 (so PHP 5.3) to work on Windows XP.

2. Unzip php. In my case, I unzipped to C:php
3. Rename C:phpphp.ini-development to php.ini

4. Edit your php.ini

   Open php.ini in a text editor and scroll down about halfway through the file and look for doc_root then change it to point to whatever your Apache DocumentRoot is set to. In my case: doc_root = “C:public_html”

   Scroll down about 7 more lines and change the extension_dir from ;extension_dir = “ext” to the location of the ext directory after you unzipped PHP. in my case: extension_dir = “C:phpext” (remove the ; from in front of it also)

5. Editing Apache Conf File

   Using Notepad open httpd.conf (should be start-menu shortcut “Apache HTTP Server 2.2 > Configure Apache Server > Edit the Apache httpd.conf Configuration File”). Either at the very beginning or end of the file add the following lines: (NOTE: be sure to change BOTH C:/php parts to the directory you installed your php to)

   	LoadModule php5_module "C:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
   	AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
   	PHPIniDir "C:/php"

6. [OPTIONAL] Editing Apache Conf File (part 2)

   To get Apache to automatically look for an index.php, search httpd.conf for DirectoryIndex(about line 212) and add the files you want apache to look for when a directory is loaded (if it doesn’t find any of these files, it displays folder contents). Mine looks like:

   <IfModule dir_module>
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html default.html
   </IfModule>

7. Testing

   Restart Apache if it is already running (if it doesn’t start or you get errors, use your Apache “Test Configuration” shortcut in the Start Menu to see why).

   To test your PHP simply create a test.php file in your Apache “DocumentRoot” folder (C:public_html in my case). In your test.php file, type these 3 lines and then load the file in your browser like http://localhost/test.php (you should get a whole long list of php variables, settings, etc):

   <?php
   phpinfo();
   ?>

8. Documentation Suggestion

   One weird thing I have noticed about PHP is that it does not come with documentation of any kind. If you are a php developer/programmer, I suggest you download the documentation. Downloads can be found on http://www.php.net/download-docs.php and I personally recommend the “English – Windows HTML Help” (chm) version as the search is so handy, although they all contain the same information.

One of the great ways to avoid the google sandbox effect is by purchasing an expired or to be expired domain name. An expired domain name is one which was in use for a while and was not renewed by the owner at the end of the renewal period. Generally webmasters do not renew their domain names because of the fact that they lose interest in the idea that was originally planned.

Advantages of purchasing an expired domain name:

1) Firstly, you can avoid the Google Sandbox effect – Since the domain name has been in existence for while, you can easily avoid the google sandbox effect

2) Backlinks – Ideally, every webmaster who purchases a domain name has a reason to purchase one and does end up doing a little bit of promotion before they realize that it’s not as easy as it looks like and then give up. Therefore, during the promotion activity a few backlinks would have been built up and taken advantage of.

3) Page Rank – If you’re lucky enough, you could find a domain name with PageRank. You will need to do a little bit of searching, but you can find one if you really put in the effort. If the webmaster had promoted the website well, it might have attained a page rank which of course you can take advantage of instantly.

How to Find Expired Domain Names

Now, I presume since you know the advantages of Expired domain names, you would like to know how you can locate them and purchase them as well, right? The following websites will help you:

http://hosterbox.com/expireddomains/
http://expirednamesniper.com
http://expiring.org/

Using the above 3 websites, you can enter your choice of keyword and search for all Top Level Domain names (TLD’s) of your choice. Check them out!

http://premiumdomainfinder.com/ - They actually send you a list of 25 expiring domains for you choice of keyword that could help you make a profitable website.

Check Page Rank

Let’s say that you’ve found a list of expiring domain names that you would like to purchase, a good idea would be to check they’re page rank to help us decide. You could use  the website http://www.masspagerank.com/ to help you check the page rank of all your preferred domains at once.

Purchase Expired Domain Names

That’s it from my end. If you have the right mind set and time on your hand , you could definitely take advantage of expired domains by finding a keyword rich domain name and avoid lot of start up and initial issues.

The best way to start your link building efforts for your targeted keywords is by finding out your competitors backlink profile.  There are two major reasons why this is a great approach:

• You can find out the backlink profile and diverse links of your competitors
• You can probably build similar kinds of backlinks and even more to beat your competition

Find Backlink Data

You could use the tool Backlink Watch to do this easily for you. Backlink watch is an excellent tool that gives the following details:

As soon as you plug in your competitors URL, you will start obtaining details like Anchor Text used for the backlink, PR of the backlink, outbound links from the backlink giving page and if any nofollow tag is used. This makes this tool very simple and easy to use.

Now, for an example we’ve taken a very competitive keyword “hostgator review” and these were the results in Google. The site joshkotsay.com is ranking very well at 2nd position for this competitive keyword. This would imply that the webmaster is doing a great job with backlinking efforts and we use the tool http://backlinkwatch.com to figure out the site’s link profile and the total no. of backlinks.

If you dig into the results, you will find results as shown in the screenshot below:

Here you can see the backlink URL, Anchor Text, Outgoing Backlinks (OBL) and nofollow flag. If you go through the results, you will find that the webmaster has built a lot of backlinks using web 2.0 websites with the help of article marketing.

Now the idea is that you’ve found that the webmaster has a total of 513 backlinks and a very diverse link profile. If you’re interested in beating the competition you know that you have a lot of work ahead in front of you by building backlinks from various sources. So we suggest, that you take action and see the results

But did you know that when you build backlinks, it needs to be recognized by the search engines – so that you receive credit for the backlinks. When you build up backlinks life forum profiles – they’re generally not found and recognized but search engines immediately – it might take a while to get recognized or end up not getting recognized at all.

A good way to help search engines recognize your backlinks is to ping them. However, there are many webmaster that wonder if it’s a good method to ping your backlinks. If you’re looking to get credit for your backlinks  – pinging your backlinks might be a good option.

Firstly, Let’s understand Pinging

Pinging is basically a way of notifying the search engines that you have written or posted something new to your website or blog page. When you ping the page where your backlink has been created – you’re notifying the search engines that a backlink has been created your site and you should get rewarded it (since a backlink is considered as a vote) for by a change in SERP’s.

How to Ping Backlinks

We’ve come across an excellent service called ping farm that helps you ping multiple links at once. You even have the option of importing a list of URL’s and pinging them.

How we use this – If you’re a frequent visitor on my blog – you would have learnt that we’ve discussed on Social Monkee. You could basically, pull out the report to get the backlinks once the submission is complete and ping the URL’s where the backlinks are placed.

If you’re using directory submissions to build backlinks or using blog commenting as a link building strategy, it’s a good idea to take those URL’s and ping them, so that the backlink gets recognized.

How to Use Ping Farm

1. Go to pingfarm.com
2. Cut and paste your URL’s into the first box, or upload your text file. Ensure you place one URL per line.
3. Scroll down to the “Services to Ping” section and click the “MASS PING!” button.

Feel free to share your experiences on pinging your backlinks and the results of the same

The Google Sandbox effect has not been proven and is a concept that most SEO experts believe is applicable to only highly competitive or broad keyword phrases. The result of a sandbox effect is that a new website does not receive good Google search engine rankings for its targeted keywords or phrases for the first few months, hence reducing traffic. This happens in-spite of good content and inbound links. Google places new sites in sandbox for the sole reason of preventing spammers to take advantage of Google’s algorithm thereby promoting websites who are serious about their future and contribution to the web.

How do you know if you’re website is placed in Google Sandbox

Well, there is no hard and fast rule or a magic formula to tell you that. Here, we have listed down a few signals of a website being Sandboxed.

1) Having great unique content with proper on site SEO and still not ranking for your targeted keyword -  it’s likely that your site has been sandboxed

2) If your site has received a PR in an Google PR update because of your proper SEO efforts, but cannot be found for your main keyword in Google, as well as if it shows up for secondary keywords, or even those keywords that you are not trying to rank for, it’s very likely that your site has been sandboxed.

How to Get out of Google Sandbox?

It might sound strange and a little lame in this net savvy world, but one of the biggest factors in life is TIME. The same applies to websites which want to emerge out from a Google Sandbox. But that does not mean that stop your efforts, you having to continue building great content with proper on site SEO and keep building backlinks to your website. Over a period of time, you will notice that your keywords start ranking high in Google SERP’s – this happens because you’ve communicated your intent to Google that you’re here to stay and not to SPAM the web.

If you’re starting a new website and would like to avoid the Google sandbox, you could target low competition keywords which of course will have lower no. of searches as researchers and SEO experts believe that the Google Sandox applies to highly competitive & broad keywords.

Do let us know if you think this is just a concept and not reality? Have any of your websites been through and emerged from a Google sandbox – we would love to hear your thoughts?

Of late, I’ve been involved in a lot of keyword research in different niches as im in the process of my first niche blog.  which i plan to monetize through google adsense.

5 Mistakes to Avoid During Keyword Research

1. Exact Search Count – Always opt for exact search count during your keyword research. By default Google Keyword tool shows broad search count which is totally incorrect. Always make sure to opt for exact search count.

In the above screenshot, you can check out the difference between Broad, Exact & Phrase search numbers. Stay away from broad & Phrase counts as they provide an incorrect picture of the searches.

2. Competition – Contrary to what everybody thinks the competition column is not your SEO competition.  This column shows the number of advertisers worldwide bidding on each keyword relative to all keywords across Google. The shaded bar represents a general low-to-high quantitative guide to help you determine how competitive ad placement is for a particular keyword.

This basically means that if the competition column is very high, the keyword is very profitable. If you’re planning your website / blog through Google adsense, the next step would be to check the CPC. I would think anything more than $1 would be good to target.

Check out this Article from Google for more details

3. Long Tail Keywords – Don’t target a single keyword and build a whole site optimized for that. As, you will not receive the kind of traffic that the keyword tool suggest even if your rank #1 for that keyword as Google keeps dancing your sites around in SERP’s all throughout the day. Target atleast 8-10 long tail keywords with low competition related to the main keyword for traffic.

Keyword Research: Long Tail Keywords to Dominate A Niche

4. Exact Domain Match – Choosing whether to go with a Keyword domain name or branded domain name would ideally depend on what aspiration you have for your website.

A keyword domain name with reasonably good content will have anchor text from links pointing to your site. So in many cases, it is not the domain name that is influencing a sites ranking, it is the anchor text that helps the domain achieve good ranking for the targeted keyword.

A Branded domain name is something that is more apt to remember. If you are building a high quality site that you have large aspirations for, then an exact match domain is less important and you can opt for a name that you would like to see as a brand in the future. Remember that keywords in domain names for large websites have low value as specific keyword value in domain decreases as your website increases in content.

Read More on Importance of Keywords in a Domain Name

5. Traffic Trends – You need to ensure that the keyword your targeting gets consistent traffic through the year. There are keywords like fathers day, mothers day , Halloween etc that tend to get traffic only during those days or a few days before that. So that is to be kept in mind as well.

As you can see in the Local search trends, the keyword “Haloween” gets it searches only during certain times of the month.

These are just few of the pointers which we could think of. It would be great , if you could add your own pointers on keyword research.

We’ve listed down 5 free good alternatives to Google Analytics

1. Piwik

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) real time web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.

Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript code. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track (or use an existing wordpress plugin to do it automatically for you) and access your analytics reports in real time.

Visit Piwik now

2. Going Up

GoingUp provides first class web site analytics and seo tools for your website. With GoingUp!, easilytrack visitors, monitor sales, see conversion rates, and improve your search strategies. GoingUp! offers the most complete web site analytics around.

Visit Going Up now

3. Clicky

Clicky is designed to be the easiest web analytics service you’ve ever used. They offer their service free upto 90,000 page views per month after which you would have to opt for the paid service. Clicky is a real time web analytics service. This means that when you login and view your stats, you are seeing up to the minute data on the traffic to your web site. Most services don’t let you see what’s happening “today” until the day after.

Visit Clicky now

4. Sitemeter

Site Meter is a free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page. Not only can it display the number of visitors to your web site, it also keeps statistics on the number of visits each hour and every day. It also provides detailed information about these visitors. These statistics are provided in real time so they are always up-to-date.

Visit Sitemeter now

5. JawStats

JAWStats is a free web statistics and analytics package. It reads log files created by the ever-popular AWStats web statistics software and outputs the information in it’s own format.

JAWStats reads the log file(s) created by AWStats. AWStats must run as normal on your server, but the process of building HTML pages is no longer mandatory

Visit JawStats now

Do let us know if you’ve used any other services apart from the ones mentioned above from tracking your sites statistics

One of the biggest advantages of the thesis theme is that you do not require an SEO plugin to help you optimize your blog, as thesis has their own SEO values.

However, at times you might decide to change your theme as you would like to go in for a fresh new look or just simply migrate your SEO values to all in one SEO plugin.

How to Migrate Thesis SEO Values to All In One SEO

You can use the plugin All in One SEO Pack Importer which will help you imports SEO data from Thesis to All in One SEO Pack. This is useful if you are leaving Thesis for a different theme or you prefer the superior SEO.

The plugin is very easy to use and with the click of a button you can migrate your thesis SEO values to All in One SEO plugin. Below is a screenshot:

The plugin is used as a one time and will help you maintain your SERP ranking in google and retain your search engine traffic.

Do let us know your experience if you’ve used this plugin ever in your blogging career