There are many great WordPress plugins that every site owner should consider using. Of the plugins, wp-print and Nextgen Gallery will greatly enhance any site. However, wp-print does not display the Nextgen Gallery the way that I would like it to. Instead of displaying the images in a row as displayed on the site, the printable version is a long…
Read More »BigDump performs a staggered import of large and very large MySQL dumps similar to those of the phpMyAdmin 2.x dumps into a new or an existing MySQL database. Other reasons for using this script is if in the even access to the server shell is not possible or for what ever the reason the import fails using phpMyAdmin due to…
Read More »cPanel has become a standard for turning standalone servers into automated hosting platforms. Tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration and provide multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user. One of cPanel’s features is under the Security…
Read More »Lately, I have been burning through bandwidth. I had thought that I have enabled all possible tweaks until I discovered that there is an additional work-a-round that will use gzip compression for PHP, CSS, and JS files. While there are more simplified solutions for use, WordPress installations create additional obstacles that this code addresses well. The results may be measured…
Read More »A useful WordPress plugin is WP-PostViews. This plugin enables the display of number of times a post or page had been viewed. However, it there is an odd behavior when handling special characters. According to one definition, HTML special characters and symbols that cannot be generated in HTML with normal keyboard commands may be produced using HTML entities and/or ISO…
Read More »It has been asked by many as to the purpose of the code that is added to the header of many modern WordPress themes. This code is to reside just above the of the header. There is very little detail in the reference to this this code online only it’s usage and placement within WordPress. I recently encountered a theme…
Read More »There are many great WordPress plugins and Search Unleashed is no exception. It serves as a great replacement to the built-in WordPress search engine. Search Unleashed extends the standard search with a full text search across posts, pages, comments, authors, and meta-data. It even offers modules that support other plugins including NextGEN Gallery. The reason anyone should want to upgrade…
Read More »To get my feet wet, I wanted to test an installation of WordPress MU (multi-user) edition. The installation seems too problematic on a Windows workstation, even when running in an environment such as AppServ , WAMP, XAMPP, or Uniform Server. My preference is XAMPP. I have tested and used all these environments. I originally preferred the Uniform Server as it…
Read More »Permalinks are the URLs to an individual post, category, page, etc. These links generally take the form of index.php?p=444 (or some number). Pretty Permalinks are the same URLs crafted to make sense to the user. Apache offers this ability, though generally not set by default. IIS through version 6 (Windows 2003) does not offer this. There are ISAPI filters both…
Read More »XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, comprised of an Apache HTTP Server, a MySQL database, PHP and Perl programming languages. It is easy to install and setup with little configuration. However, the default installation of XAMPP does not enable the permalinks, though the permalinks structure is customizable to create the .htaccess file. With no permalinks,…
Read More »Global Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog into different languages. After activating the Global Translator plugin, it is displayed under the Admin Settings as Global Translator. However, the link is incorrect and will not display. The link selects an absolute path that is incorrect. https://it.megocollector.com/wp-admin/:/…/it/wp-content/plugins/global-translator/options-translator.php The plugin is still…
Read More »WordPress offers a default password recovery method that is available on the login screen. Under the Username and Password box there is a link to Lost your password?. This password recovery method would recover the user password if the user defines a valid and working email address in the user profile. If the e-mail account is not accessible or unknown…
Read More »One of my continuing tasks is to search for a free open source web analytic application. There are very few to be found. An application that promises to be very good, is PiWiK. It is still in the very early stages of development and has a lot to be desired. It is, however, the continuing development of it’s predecessor phpMyvisites….
Read More »I wanted to enable LDAP in an instance of WordPress 2.6.2. To do this was not as simple as I had hoped. I spent a little over an hour trying to implement something that seemed to be self evident. After some research and testing and once all the pieces were identified and correctly configured, I finally got it working. The…
Read More »WordPress is quite versatile. The ability to customize, tweak, manipulate code, and or change plugins and themes are among the top reasons that it is so popular today. However, there are those who maliciously and intentionally add code that generally cannot be changed. This code is often encrypted or obfuscated so that it may be masked as legitimate code. Often…
Read More »Another WordPress update has been made available for download. It seems that every time I get my sites in order, there is another update. Whether it is a plugin or WordPress release. This makes it particularly difficult when trying to maintain a perfect copy of a site for development and testing of plugins, themes, and WordPress updates. It also seems,…
Read More »A new feature of WordPress 2.6 is the introduction of the Post Revision. This feature is by default enabled and without options. In theory, it is a reasonable mechanism to prevent data loss in the event a mistake is made in a revised Post. One may simply revert to a previous Post. However, the annoyance is that the admin has…
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