We all know what WordPress custom fields can do, if you do not know what the heck is custom fields is, then you are probably missing out something important and powerful tool in WordPress. With custom fields you can add additional information called meta-data to individual post, and meta-data can be simple information to vary complex actions. To achieve complex actions, you must have PHP skills and WordPress template editing knowledge. Without making it any more complicated, I will show you how quickly you can start using WordPress custom fields with your blog posts.

Feedburner Awareness API lets us retrieve total subscribers count. Just enable Awarness API in feedburner settings and replace feed URL with your feedburner location. [cc lang=”php”][/cc]

Sometimes, it’s great to see a Facebook user registering on your site, but what if we can show them list of friends in your site, it will be amazing.

There are many web development packages available on the net, designed to run on different operating systems. Few of them are designed for PHP development such as  XAMPP, Apache2Triad, VertrigoServ. XAMPP is also available on Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. But today we are going to focus on installing Wampserver on windows.