How to style WP Affiliate Platform

by Jay Versluis

in How To,Themes,Tweaks

I’ve recently done some research on Affiliate Programmes that integrate with WP Ecommerce.

I came across the excellent WP Affiliate Platform from Tips and Tricks HQ – it works beautifully and is very easy to setup. At only $39 it’s a steal – considering how much business it can generate for you. Thanks Ruhul!

I wanted to make the front end integrate with my original site – which is just like tweaking a WordPress Theme. Let me talk you through it in this article.

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How to amend an Application Vault Repository in Plesk

by Jay Versluis

in Linux,Plesk

I’m currently building a WordPress Hosting Service where customers get hosting with WordPress pre-installed.

I also want to offer several pre-installed Themes and Plugins that I’ll deploy from the Plesk Back End using Application Vault.

WordPress is already available as a free repository, however it does take some time for new versions to be made available – and of course my Themes and Plugins aren’t there either.

So how can I amend or build a new Plesk Application Vault repository? Let’s find out in this article, in which I’m describing all my findings ;-)

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How to upgrade PHP on CentOS 5

With the recent end-of-life announcement it becomes clear that WordPress isn’t going to support PHP 5.1.6. for much longer anymore. CentOS 5 however comes pre-compiled with PHP 5.1.6 and there are no plans to change this in the current version. For simple folk like me it’s unimaginable to re-compile the entire OS from source or [...]

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Linux Disk Space shown as Pie Chart

I’m managing a server for Loft London. They’re using it as FTP site for various clients, so I wanted to provide an easy way for them to keep an eye on how much space is used and how much is left. I’ve done some digging and found this super handy PHP Pie Chart generator by [...]

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When Plesk fails to upgrade

I’ve had this issue before: you get a new server, the image is a few revisions behind the current release and your first line of business is to upgrade the system. A few minutes later you check and instead and Plesk refuses to start. Bugger. Now what? My Customer Support Gurus always know what to [...]

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How to install Parallels Plesk on a new Linux server

So I’ve expanded my server arsenal to a fifith machine with Strato in Germany. Sadly they only offer an OpenSUSE installation bundled with Plesk (in German – unchangeable to English). What I really wanted was another CentOS system though, which Strato offer – but without Plesk installed. After a bit of hackage, I found out [...]

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The “Comber 38″ Viagra Hack

Just when I though the Drunkjeans Hack had passed over, there’s another attack on a couple of my sites. I’ll call it the “Comber 38″ hack. These hacks are most likely related. What does this hack do? With Comber 38, your sites are turned into Viagra Promo sites. Search for “viagra hack” and you’ll see [...]

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The Drunkjeans.com / Roundstorm.com Hack and how to get rid of it

Saturday morning a couple of my sites were hacked by something I’ve not found a lot of info about. I’ll call it The Drunkjeans Hack. I’ve also found this being inserted from other domains (see below). Some idiot has inserted a piece of code into the main index.php file that looks like this: <script type=”text/javascript” [...]

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Testing HyperDB

I’m as excited as a kid in a candystore! I’ve heard a lot about HyperDB and what can be done with it, and I’ve been thinking how cool it would be to implement it on the sites I’m hosting. And today my friends I’m proud to say that IT WORKS A TREAT! Hyper What? Let [...]

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How to increase the Upload Limit in phpMyAdmin?

Since phpMyAdmin is written in php, all we need to do is change the file upload limit in the php.ini file. On CentOS and RHEL distributions, this file is located in /etc/php.ini Find this section: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; File Uploads ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads. file_uploads = On ; Temporary directory for [...]

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WordPress 3.0 is here – but should you upgrade today?

Fellow WordPressers, Looks like the big news just broke – WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” is here (that’s named after Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk by the way). You may have seen an upgrade notice in your dashboard already that urges you to upgrade. Which is why I thought I’d drop you a message: DON’T UPGRADE UNTIL YOU [...]

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How to change “View with Piclens” message in NextGen Gallery

Alex Rabe’s NextGen Gallery plugin is certainly is the best there is, even though I find it a tad too complex at times. I love it though, and I use it on all my sites whenever I want to upload a batch of pictures and insert them into my posts with little hassle and great [...]

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How to create Rotating Ads on your site

I was looking for a solution that displays more than just one advert or banner in one spot. Say I have some space in my sidebar and I wanted to display some adverts there – but I don’t want them to be the same one all the time. I’d like a solution that upon a [...]

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How to modify MANSION by GraphPaper Press

I wanted to use Mansion for my Miami Beach Huts website. It was ideally suited, however all my images are portrait instead of landscape. Some tweaks were necessary which I thought I’d share with you for endless hours of fun. I wrote this for Version 0.2 of this theme. A few things have changed since [...]

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