Monkey business for the geek in you!
Ah, I thought that might get your attention….. Yes, what blogger does NOT want to make money from their hard work? Oh what’s that? You’re independently wealthy and just doing this for kicks n’ giggles? That’s nice for you. Now…
The other day a friend asked me about styling the various parts of the Thesis comments display and when trusty Google didn’t come up with a fast answer, I was forced to delve into some CSS with the aid of…
The first step in any new project is often the hardest. At the beginning, the idea exists only in your mind with no tangible manifestations of it, and therefore no “proof” that it can be achieved. Our human nature is…
In recent days a significant WordPress security threat has emerged. The root of it is the ability for unsavory types to compromise a very common image resizing script called TimThumb which is used in many WordPress themes and plugins. Through…
Below are the slides from my San Diego WordCamp talk on “Treat Your Blog Like A Business”. I discussed a few common monetization strategies, and the ins n’s outs of each. My overall premise is that in most cases, monetization…
This past weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at the first ever WordCamp in San Diego. It was an amazing experience for many reasons. I delivered a presentation entitled “Treat Your Blog Like A Business: Which Monetization Strategy Is…
If you are new to linux you probably will wonder how to change the hostname of your computer or server. (A hostname is the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.) If you enter the wrong hostname during the installation, and you need to change the hostname, here is…
WordPress – The Next Steps – Intermediate Level Class Saturday July 23rd, 1:30pm – 4:30pm @ Blankspaces 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 free parking is available – see Blankspaces website for details. You…
Want to expand your marketplace… to the entire world? A multilingual eCommerce store gives you the capability to sell to markets in every part of the globe – anywhere customers can access the internet! Every website can be accessed by anyone anywhere in the world (unless, of course, it’s been blocked by another country), so…
Step-By-Step Search Engine Optimization For Your Blog/Website Thursday July 14th, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, $40 @ Blankspaces 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 free parking is available – see Blankspaces website for details. You’ve set…
In its continuing effort to keep low quality content out of its search results, Google announced this week that it would be supporting “authorship markup”. Authorship markup is essentially a couple of specific pieces of code you can add to…
The web world has a serious case of trying to keep up with the Jones’, or rather the Zuckerberg. This week both Twitter and Google have launched features that mimic Facebook. The other day I mentioned Twitter’s new “Follow” button…
Following in the footsteps of the Facebook Like Box, which allows users to “Like” a site’s fan page without leaving the website, Twitter today launched a similar feature. Their “Follow” button allows you to follow someone’s Twitter account without leaving…
Google Recipe View Since Google introduced their Recipe View it was only a matter of time before the WordPress community rose to the occasion with plugins to help non-code-geek bloggers take advantage of the development. So far I’ve found 3…
It’s that time again folks! Time for another WordPress training workshop to initiate more beginners into the WordPress family. Learn How To Use WordPress For Business and Blogging! Have an idea for a business or blog and need to get…
When running a ‘yum update’ under CentOS, there are certain packages you may be running which you wish to remain static, or which can potentially cause errors with the update eg. Samba. In these situations it is useful to force yum to exclude certain packages from being updated under CentOS. Yum uses a configuration file…
If rpm / yum command hangs during operations or you see error messages – it means your rpm database corrupted. /var/lib/rpm/ stores rpm database just delete the same and rebuild rpm database: Command to rebuild rpm database rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm –rebuilddb -v -v
Forcing the restore of a transfered cPanel account , even if the new system says the username is all ready in use /scripts/restorepkg –force –skipres <account.tar.gz>
When installing the CSF firewall on your CentOS server, you need to make sure that you have libwww-perl installed This is easily done by installed it with yum on CentOS 5 yum install perl-libwww-perl
It’s true that there can be many confusing intricacies to the science of Search Engine Optimization, but what’s also true is that most people get tripped up on the basics, before they even get to the complex stuff! In working…