Several minutes ago I updated my Google Analytics Dashboard plugin and all pages of my blog went dead, the only thing that was displayed was: “Please open this page in Admin panel only” After a quick investigation I found out that you can fix this quick and dirty by editing gad-admin-options.php and comment out Line […]
First of all that article is mostly for WordPress users which host their blogs on a VPS, some of the advices I’ll give you will also improve your security on shared hosting, but most of this weight falls on your hosting provider. 1. The MOST important thing to do(or NOT do in this case) is […]
I have the habit of keeping the collation for my databases utf8_general_ci, but recently I had a table containing swedish cities and had to order them by name. The problem was that the swedish accents “åäöÅÄÖ” which normally go at the end of the alphabet were all over the place. mysql> SELECT * FROM cities […]
For years, I’ve found the fact that the integrated in WordPress WYSIWYG editor(TinyMCE) has so much buttons cut out by default, with no native way for the user to enable them(Font select, Font size select, Charmap, Cut, Copy, Paste, Format select, Style select, Forecolor, Backcolorpicker etc.). Here I showed you how you can enable Fontsize […]
Lets say you just setup a RAID1 Array 😀 and you want everything that matters saved there, your web projects are the easies part, just copy the files and modify the vhost, but your databases are also vulnerable and are even more critical then the files. MySQL requires a few extra steps to change its […]
I started configuring an HP ProLiant N54L microserver today and when I got to the raid array part I noticed that some of the tutorials for debian are not quite working, so I made this step by step tutorial for the others having problems out there.
There are tons of tutorials like this online, so I’ll keep it as short as possible. DON’T USE UNETBOOTIN TO CREATE BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVES!NO…REALLY DON’T. I made a bootable Debian Wheezy 7.4 drive yesterday using UNETBOOTIN and started the installation, everything seemed normal except for the missing option to choose from GUI or Console installation, […]
Apache is one of the most used webservers worldwide, and if you’re hosting a website somewhere the odds are you are using it. Those of us which use a VPS or a Dedicated server to host their project might notice that as the traffic to their site rises their server slowly starts to eat up […]
A lot of bloggers made the move to WordPress in the last few years, so I decided to write this article to explain to the beginner users what is WordPress really and help those of you wondering if they should give it a try. WordPress is a free web-based CMS(one of the most popular ones […]
While writing WordPress plugins you`ll occasionally need a way of creating a database table with your plugin, to store data for your features, oprtions etc.. This approach is not the best but it does the work. Important: Always do house-keeping on plugin uninstall. <?php /* * Create database for SERP History */ global $wpdb; if (!$wpdb->get_results("SELECT […]