The key is making following 2 changes to your site:

First, make sure to add Arabic files into a directory that you create under the wp-includes directory of your wordpress installation. You can just upload languages.zip file into wp-includes directory and unzip it. (languages file)

Second is your wp-config.php file. Open this file in your admin area and edit the following line.

define (‘WPLANG’, ‘ar’);

By default it is in English. All you need to do is add ‘ar’, which stands for Arabic.

The only challenge you might find is if your theme doesn’t justify text to the right. Here you will have to look into the style sheet of the theme and update it.

I am using the The 2010 theme for WordPress ( default theme) in my project and it is working fine.

If you want to download all WordPress files for a given language, you might find it here.

To write Arabic even without an Arabic keyboard, check here.

The easiest way to use the menu, if you wish to customize your blog, is to use it with the Atahualpa WordPress theme. I found this post to be very helpful in showing how to integrate this menu with the theme. Also, don’t forget to check out what some readers posted. Some did very nice designs using this menu.

The sliding door menu is based on mootools, a javascript framework  which you can download separately, if you wish to install it and try it out.

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If you don’t have Gimp, download it from here. It’s a high quality image manipulation software that you can download under the GNU license.

Open the image in Gimp

From the Layer menu item, click on Transparency and then click on the “Add Alpha Channel” the first item in the submenu.

Click on the fuzzy selection tool from the Toolbox panel and highlight the background area on your image that you want to make transparent.

Click on the “delete” button on your laptop, or select the menu item “clear” under the Edit menu. You will start seeing the background color change to transparent. Shown in the software as gray squares (see image below).

Now you can save the new image and you should be done.

Under the Appearance menu, click on the Editor menu item.

Then click on the Page Template item, which will allow you to edit the page.php file. This file has the instruction on what to display on a wordpress page.

 You will find that the function responsible for displaying the comment form (comments_template()) is missing. All you will need to add the the code that will instruct php to display the comment form, only if the page id is = 9. In your case, you will replace 9 with the page id that you like to add comments to.

To display the comment form on your page add the code between and including the red boxes below: 

 If you like to display the comment for on only 2 pages, either page 1508 or page 1832, then you can change your if statement like this following one:

Or if you want to display the comment form on any page, except page 1508, then the following applies:

 Regards.

In the sidebar of you site you can just add the following html form code to accept user id and password.

Edit sidebar.php file under your theme. Just pick an area where you want to add the form by adding the following code after any </li> tag depending on where you want to display the form. Ideally you want to display it at the top of your sidebar.

<li>
<?php if (is_user_logged_in()){
echo “<h2>Welcome! </h2>”; ?>

<ul>
<li><a href=”<?php echo wp_logout_url(get_permalink()); ?>”>Logout</a></li>
</ul>
<?php } else { ?>

<form name=”loginform” id=”login” action=”<?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-login.php” method=”post”>
<h2>Account Login</h2>
<label for=”userid”>Userid:</label>
<input type=”text” name=”log” value=”" id=”userid” size=”15″/><br />
<label for=”password”>Password:</label>
<input type=”password” name=”pwd” value=”" id=”password” size=”10″/>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Login” id=”enter” />
<p><?php wp_register(”, ”); ?>
<p><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘wpurl’); ?>/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword”>Lost your password?</a></p>
</form>

<?php } ?>

</li>

Click here to download login form listed above.

This above php/html will do a basic form where:

<?php if (is_user_logged_in()){

Checks if anyone is logged in, then prints “Welcome registered user”and displays a link to log out, else if no one is logged in, it displays the login form.

This is a basic html form where:

<h2>Account Login</h2>

is the title of the form

<label for=”userid”>Userid:</label>

to assigns an informative label.

<input type=”text” name=”log” value=”" id=”userid” size=”15″/><br />

text box to accept user input to a text field. Note: Here you can add the optional size argument to any size that fits your sidebar area.
There are about 10 specific types to the <input /> tag. In any simple login form you will need to use 3.
1-text: for entering text. 2-password: to enter a password, and 3- submit: which creates a submit button.

<p><?php wp_register(”,”); ?>

you might want to add this line if you want to allow your visitors to register.

Let me know, if you have any questions about it.
Regards.