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Please stop freaking out about Feedburner 22 Sep 2012 | 11:39 pm
A lot of people have been freaking out about Feedburner lately. There is no need to freak. Chill, please. Or as Samuel L. Jackson so eloquently put it, “B*$%h, be cool!” Here’s what’s really going on:...
How to fix the WordPress white screen of death 25 Jun 2012 | 09:17 pm
So, you visit your WordPress blog and all you get is a blank white screen. You can’t log into WordPress either. This is when you freak the *$!@ out. Don’t panic! It may look like your blog has been d...
How to make text fields appear and disappear with javascript in Contact Form 7 21 Jun 2012 | 12:29 am
I typically use the Contact Form 7 plugin to create forms in WordPress. It easily creates forms using shortcodes to generate the input fields. One of the only limitations is that the shortcodes don’t ...
nRelate is a good LinkWithin alternative if you want a related posts widget with thumbnail images 9 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am
LinkWithin is a popular widget that not only displays links to your related blog posts at the bottom of a blog entry, but also includes thumbnail images pulled from those posts. The images make the li...
YouTube shortcode fix for a blog imported from WordPress.com 28 Nov 2011 | 09:48 am
I recently moved a client from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress installation. After I imported all her entries, I noticed that the shortcode WordPress.com had used to display her YouTube video...
How to add a Pinterest “Pin it” social media button to your blog posts 16 Nov 2011 | 12:01 pm
Today it goes without saying that you need to put a row of social media buttons at the top or bottom of your blog posts. There are plugins and code snippets to do this for most of the major sites like...
How to insert custom smilies or emoticons in phpBB 3.xx (version 3) 13 Oct 2011 | 05:34 pm
Adding custom smilies and emoticons to your phpBB forum is an easy way to insert personal style to your boards. It’s also rather easy to do once you know how. Unfortunately for me, when I searched for...
The trials of being too popular: Know when to turn off comment notifications so your host doesn’t think you’re a spammer 21 Sep 2011 | 12:52 pm
Today I got the phone call I always hate to get from clients. It was Stephanie O’Dea telling me her site was down. Whenever someone reports a site outage or hacking I drop everything and get on it imm...
How to export your Diaryland posts 12 Jul 2011 | 07:06 am
If you are interested in my Diaryland to WordPress conversion service, you will need to get a copy of your Diaryland entries. Instructions on how to do that are included below thanks to Weetabix! Log...
Editing the hosts file to view a domain at a different IP address 13 Apr 2011 | 01:29 am
I’ve helped several clients move their sites from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress blog. In some cases, they’ve already got their domain pointed to the Blogger blog. This makes it a bit trickier to ...
