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Is Woopra Gambling Dangerously on the Cool Factor?

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Desktop live web statistics service Woopra is gambling – dangerously, inevitably or both – with it’s ratecard rollout, selling the cool factor to the ‘Web 2.0′ crowd. Maybe you heard, Woopra has announced an end to its 2-year beta programme, signalling costs for established web sites. The tracking service remains free for startup sites and [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 15: WordPress Setup & Updates from the Command Line

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Part 15: Setup/update WordPress on your server. This copy/paste how-to guide steps out the process, setting up a MySQL database and using Subversion.

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 14: Tweak Nginx for WordPress – Pretty URLs & WP Super Cache

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Part 14: Configure NGINX for WordPress blogs, speeding up the platform by enabling the WP Super Cache plugin, and enabling friendly-URI permalinks.

Video How-to: Install WordPress – Nice ‘n Simple

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

So you wanna blog, huh? And you’ve looked at the options, and like WordPress. Me too! And you like the expandability and personalisation that a Wordpress standalone install gives, but are put off by the installation process? … Don’t be. [...]

Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress Hack-Proof

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

“WordPress – Be Secure Not Hacked!” 10 easy steps; How to upgrade, update/hide plugins, change db prefix & turn off errors, delete “admin”, password, hide version, remove WP meta tag, create .htaccess file. Prevention is better than cure, all that…

Video How-to: Backup & Restore a Database with phpMyAdmin

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

See just how fast ‘n easy it is to backup & restore a db with phpMyAdmin. Plus, for WordPress, how to use wp-phpmyadmin to secure your WordPress db…

WordPress Upgrade Error Solved – Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()

Monday, February 16th, 2009

If you’ve tried upgrading WordPress and received an error like this…

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()

…here’s what you do…

Video How-to: Install & Configure a WordPress Plugin

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Simple 1-2-3 video guide…how to install a WordPress plugin…how to configure the plugin using “Show Me Options”. Enjoy!…

WordPress Suicide Plugin: Clean a WP Database

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

How do you clean a WordPress database of unwanted data, while retaining user or other select information? Strip out the database using phpMyAdmin? Sure. But a lazier option? WordPress Suicide.

Firefox ScribeFire Plugin for Remote Blogging

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

So, if this works I’ll have published a new post to guvnr.com, remotely, using Firefox’s ScribeFire add-on. So, hey. Definitely use that more. Update: So I’ve been playing with the Firefox ScribeFire plugin and I’m a bit disappointed but, having said that, most