Wordpress

Keep getting asked "Where can I build a site on the internet" preferably for free or low cost OK so here are some links to templated DIY site building websites: Google Sites Wix Website Builder Squarespace So to get started on the Internets for eCommerce what do you...

http://tfischernet.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/searchable-pdfs-with-linux/ PDF Copy of blog post in case they stop blogging and leave the internet

I want to output custom XML without any HTML or DTD tags using CGI.pm Here is my hack to get what I'm after: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard -any); # use the -any option to turn on custom tags # e.g. I can use $r->item("Item Content") to create # Item...

I'm noodling away at my websites performance using the Google Page Speed plugin. It recommends losslessly compressing your images using a number of utilities. I mostly upload png format images so I ran the following on my Wordpress content folder to compress the...

Problem: If your resized image radio button options aren't available when you try to upload/insert an image into a wordpress post. Then you probably don't have gd enabled in PHP. Symptom: Work-a-round: Create a thumbnail of your image locally to the size you want and...

Answer: A long time. In my case I started at around 7:30PM last night and it's at 1343GB with another ~700GB to go and it's almost 8AM the following morning. So at the moment it's taken 12+HRs to do ~1.3TB. The total time was from 7:30PM 12/09/2011 to 2:41 13/02/2011....

Update Jan 2 2014:  I migrated away from Dreamhost to a VPS at Rackspace hosting. I have to admin the Rackspace VPS myself (meaning the Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP environment is my problem to maintain) but the uptime and performance of the small 512 MB RAM VPS I...

I just moved this domain and a few others over to a Dreamhost VPS (Virtual Private Server). I have Wordpress, Gallery 3 and Piwik installed, plus several Joomla sites. To give you an idea of traffic affecting the VPS this Blog get's between 200 and 300 unique visitors...

If you develop a HTML page and source (SRC=) some images or scripts using a "http://" prefixed URL and then try and convert the site to run securely using https a lot of browsers will rightly complain that you are trying to serve encrypted and un-encrypted content....

I've tried over time to get into using CSS and the appropriate html tags to create tables but in the I want a table. So I've installed the "WP-Table Reloaded" plugin and now I have a wonderful and simple jQueryised interface within wordpress with which to generate and...

I have an Android based HTC Desire Phone. I use it to read the news in the mornings after waking up. One of the frustrations I have found is trying to read web pages that are designed for people with 19" to 24" monitors on the tiny Android screen. I appreciate when a...

I finally have a twitter account jmcd73. Not sure what it does. Just playin' really

This link http://android.wordpress.org/2010/05/11/wordpress-for-android-version-1-2-geotagging-and-video-upload/ has the secret sauce for uploading 3gp videos to a wordpress blog namely the PJW Mime Config plugin. After installing PJW Mime Config the mime type you...

If you wonder what content your site had or how it looked months and even years ago http://web.archive.org may be the place to visit. I just had a look at my site http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://toggen.com.au/ and there are pages from as far back as 2003. I...

If you have an account with a webhost which allows you to run multiple domains (or even `unlimited' domains ala Dreamhost). You may be tempted to run multiple websites under the default account that is provided by the hosting company. But while convenient, this has a...

Just wanted to resolve a relative file path so that I can pass it as an absolute path to a program. #!/bin/sh QCAD_DIR=/opt/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86 ABS_PATH=$(readlink -f "$1") cd $QCAD_DIR && ./qcad $ABS_PATH Credits: Andy

I'm fairly strict with what I allow as comments on this blog. But if someone has gone to the effort to post a well-thought-out comment I don't mind if they put a URL in the comment or the associated website field and therefore gain some SEO benefit from it. I have...