This important post comes to us from the fine & friendly folks at Shadow Dragon Unlimited. You can find the original post here. More news, discussion, informed opinions, and disinformation. Believe what you like, but have the skills to back it up! http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/882768-optimizepress-1-getting-hacked-ever-day-whats-answer.html Recently a theme security risk came to . . . Read more
Creating the Sidebar Striking theme has a particular way of adding and customizing additional widget areas for a WordPress installation. The process of adding additional widget areas is fairly strait forward once you know what to look for. To begin with, access the Sidebar configuration settings at Striking >> Sidebar . . . Read more
Alright, here’s an example shortcode for Streaming: You can just change the filename based on the mp3 files you want to stream from the S3 account. Final Link for Downloading : You can just change the filename based on the mp3 files you want to download from the S3 account. . . . Read more
Most Analytics Apps do not have official modules/plugins for Drupal. Thus, this requires us to implement a backend code insert into the theme to ensure the JS Codes we need appear on each and every page of the Drupal Theme installation. Example : MaryMorrissey.com Drupal 6 Theme : marymm Analytics . . . Read more
Oh that *is* interesting. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] The condition that is in bold above (which is already in the htaccess), should be doing the trick. But for some reason, it’s not. The “RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d” says, “if the request is . . . Read more
Manual Settings for Connecting Email Accounts: You can configure your mail client (eg: Thunderbird, Outlook, MacMail, etc…) using the settings found below. Make sure to change the “username” and “yourdomain.com” in the examples to the values for your account. The following is for the (recommended) secure SSL/TLS transport. *Important: When first connecting your . . . Read more
1. CSS3 Gradient Generator http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor :: Sleek, intuitive tool creates subtle, intelligent color gradients without images. Perfect for responsive websites that won’t render image gradients perfectly when browser window gets shrunk/blown-up. I especially like the diagonal CSS3 gradient effect this easy app allows you to create on the fly. Presets . . . Read more
“You know what the first rule of sailing is? … Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘verse, but you take a boat to the sea you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her going when she . . . Read more
After one of our Easy Apache rebuilds, we encountered the following alert email, entitled “[check_cpanel_rpms] Altered RPMs found on today.example.com”. Well now, how about that. Very interesting! The full reasons for the above remain a mild mystery, but the fix entailed running: Further Reading:Best Practices for Proactively Maintaining Web SecurityApache . . . Read more
These commands are suited to PM servers. Other Linux based servers are similar. Your mileage may vary! *Note: the “{” and “}” are not meant literally. Rather, they represent a set of commands, from which you should choose one. Restart Human: Restart Apache: New Way: Which is an alias of: Old . . . Read more
Author Unknown An American tourist was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The tourist complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took . . . Read more
Further Reading:How to Find the Sizes of All Tables in a DatabaseWordPress and GIT Deployment WorkflowGIT: Setting up a client project under source controlOptimizePress Security Breach – OptimizePress Needs PatchingInstalling and Using VVVThe American Tourist and Mexican Fisherman
My goodness, is that a correct horse battery staple?? Click here to get your very own! Further Reading:GIT: Setting up a client project under source controlHow to Create a Liquid Web / Storm on Demand WebserverHow To Backup WordPress via BackWPupInstall Grunt & SASS (plus dependencies) for an account/site on . . . Read more
So, you need to add a particular package or module to the server. For instance, when we installed BackWPup on this WordPress install, we found that it failed due to MySQLi not being installed. Easy Apache to the rescue! Easy Apache is a way to recompile / rebuild the apache . . . Read more
Many of the colors (both background and text), as well as background images can be set through the wp-admin. As a starting point, style as much of the child theme by going to Striking > Color. As a side note, any areas that should not be colored should be set . . . Read more
There are five main areas that can be edited and styled from the Striking wp-admin: Header Feature Header Page Footer Sub Footer Further Reading:How to Setup Stripe Sub-Account for New KajabiPeaceful Media’s Favorite and Standardized WP Plugin ListWordPress and GIT Deployment WorkflowMigration of WordPress from Pagodabox to a Traditional Hosting . . . Read more
These are details for Memcache on StormCloud Config file location : Default port : 11211 Current Config : Restarting Memcached : login to the server as root Run this command – Default Service commands applies: Further Reading:Create a Blank WordPress SandboxGIT: Setting up a client project under source . . . Read more