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Display Post View Count Plugin for WordPress.com Stats 8 May 2012 | 01:31 pm
Some while back I described a method for retrieving and displaying individual post view counts from WordPress.com. Having proved quite popular, I thought I’d wrap this functionality in a simple plugin...
Fixing WordPress ’404 Object Not Found’ Errors on a Mac OS X Local Server Environment 18 Apr 2012 | 09:46 am
Installing WordPress on a local server environment is fairly straight forward. There are numerous guides to be found on the Internet that’ll walk you through each step. If your local server environm...
Possible Cause of WordPress Jetpack Plugin Pagination Error 9 Apr 2012 | 03:49 pm
Back in July 2011 I noticed a problem with the Jetpack plugin and page navigation. In short, with the Jetpack plugin activated page navigation worked only if I was logged-in as admin. When logged-out ...
Apache Brush for the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress Plugin 6 Apr 2012 | 02:01 pm
Having recently switched from SyntaxHighlighter MT to the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin I was unable to get my custom Apache brush I use for .htaccess and *.conf files to work. While searching fo...
WordPress 3.x Page Navigation Error with inFocus Theme: Revisited 22 Mar 2012 | 01:40 pm
These instructions are only applicable for versions of inFocus up to and including v1.6 Shortly after the release of WordPress 3 I offered a solution to broken page navigation conceivably caused by ...
Starting MAMP’s Apache and MySQL Servers at Login 11 Mar 2012 | 11:53 am
Whether using XAMPP or MAMP to provide a local server environment I prefer to have the respective Apache and MySQL servers start when I login. With XAMPP I use a launch daemon and this works perfectly...
Changing the MySQL Root User Password in MAMP 29 Feb 2012 | 03:05 pm
Having recently changed my local testing server environment from XAMPP to MAMP v2.0.5 I wanted to change the password for the MySQL root user. By default it’s set to root . Changing the MySQL passwo...
Resolving a Static Hostname to a Dynamic IP Address Using DynDNS Free 2 Oct 2011 | 03:52 pm
There are occasions when we want to make a computer on a home/local area network (LAN) accessible externally on the Internet. For example, remotely connecting to a LAN computer using SSH or remotely a...
Assigning a Locally Networked Computer a Static IP Address in Mac OS X 29 Sep 2011 | 03:30 pm
Each computer connected to a local network is assigned a dynamic IP address. On occasion it’s useful, if not essential, to assign a static IP address instead. As an example, port forwarding requires t...
Re-opening Full-Screen Applications in OS X Lion. Hit or Miss? 3 Aug 2011 | 06:42 am
A much touted feature of OS X Lion is the ability to use applications in full-screen mode. It’s easy enough to make an already open application full-screen, but I’ve had limited success re-opening app...
