I was looking at how to transfer product information from custom shop to WooCommerce in Wordpress. My challenge was to get all the data for a mass product transfer without doing a lot of manual entry. With products online they generally have consistent html divs,...
jmits.com.au transferred to Eleganthemes Divi theme over WordPress
So as of June 12 I'm no longer a full-time employee of Atlantic Pacific Foods. I will be doing some consulting work through "James McDonald IT Services". Seeing as http://jmits.com.au was a nice HTML site put together for me by my sister I've kept it as is for years....
Google Algorithm Change Traffic Increase
On May 19 2014 Google made an Algorithm change as can be seen at this Google Algorithm Change History page. Around the same time I moved my website from Rackspace to DigitalOcean Anyway, a day or so later I noticed a marked increase in daily traffic. I thought perhaps...
www.domaincentral.com.au run a mile
Just trying to help a friend get Wordpress running on Domain Central The one click install of Wordpress they provided was many versions behind so I deleted it and attempted to upload 3.9.1 and did the install. And then ran straight into a brick wall: Domain central is...
What is Your Web Server saying to Your Browser Behind Your Back?
If you are wanting information about the interaction between your PHP web application framework (Wordpress, Joomla, CakePHP, Drupal, etc), your web server (Apache, IIS, Nginx) and your browser. You can do the following. Create a file on your PHP enabled web server...
Apache to Nginx
Just completed moving this website https://toggen.com.au/blog to nginx web server. The issues I found: Installing and configuring php-fpm to run per user Learning the syntax of the nginx conf files Rewriting the .htaccess files into the correct nginx rules Trying to...
ElegantThemes Divi FTW
I have a friend who does roof tiling and repairs, along with gutter cleaning in Maitland NSW. I have just gotten him a website going using Eleganthemes.com Divi Wordpress theme. The Divi theme is a powerful html5 mobile friendly theme which has so many pre -...
WordPress.com JetPack Plugin — The Interconnectedness of All Things
Just hooked my blog up to Wordpress.com jetpack plugin which allows publicizing a self hosted blog using any number of social accounts that one subscribes to. So I've hooked The Telarah Times up to Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. As this is my first post after doing...
Sydney to Kuala Lumpur
On the flight I managed to sit across the isle from a man who couldnt release himself from his seat belt. So after assisting him with that he noticed my mastery of the inflight entertainment system and kept bothering me to help him with it. He was also a...
Sydney Airport – Free wifi
Finally got through the customs to the gate. Everyone is so connected to their smart devices (us included) that they forget to read the signs telling them not to have their phones out while going through customs. The other funny thing is people dont get how to use...