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Disk Space Pie Chart Plugin

I’ve written a Plugin that shows your free and used server space as a funky Pie Chart in your backend. It also shows a percentage bar in your WordPress dahsboard. Following the success of my server space script for one of my clients, I thought it would be great to use it under WordPress. This [...]

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Upgrading WordPress… FAILED!

We’ve all been there many times: a new WordPress Version comes out, you think you’re upgraded in under a minute, and then this message comes up to tell you that you’re not: WordPress Upgrade Failed! Bugger… Let me talk you through the many many possibilities for this and what you can do to make this [...]

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Why does WordPress ask for your FTP Details

So you’re upgrading a Plugin, a Theme or the WordPress Core. Thanks to the built-in upgrade function it’s a piece of cake for most of us. But have you noticed that on some installations WordPress will ask for your FTP credentials, while on others it doesn’t? I certainly have, and I wondered how this could [...]

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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 batch-upgrade plugins in WordPress 2.9+

One of the big features announced with WordPress 2.9 was the ability to upgrade several plugins at once. Trouble is, it’s not an easy to find feature. Fret not, for The Guru has found it! You’d expect to go to Plugins, check the ones you want to upgrade and choose “Upgrade All” from the bulk [...]

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WordPress.com vs WordPress.org self-hosted

WordPress is my life and my passion – I wouldn’t know what to do without it. I often recommend it, I often install it and I teach people about it. One of the question I often get asked by beginners is “what’s the difference between WordPress.com and this self hosted thing”? Let me explain.

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PayPal Buttons are not to scale in Thesis

Indeed they’re not, they look waaaaay to big and ugly. Help is at hand by adding this code to your Cutsom CSS File in Thesis: .custom .format_text input, #commentform input, #commentform textarea { width:auto; } Instant relief.

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CSS Dropdown Menu hides behind Videos

Yes, that’s an annoying one – and it has less to do with your Theme’s CSS and more to do with teh Flash Player. Easy remidy is at hand, even though it means that you need to add code to each video. Here’s how you do it: Your videos will be embedded with both <OBJECT> [...]

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How to avoid Server Crashes with WordPress

WordPress has many pros for content creators like ourselves, but every once in a while there’s a big con that can get in the way of WordPress Fun. One of them is really annoying: when your website becomes regularly unavailable due to a server crash! Even though a reboot brings things back to normal for [...]

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How to link YouTube and your self-hosted WordPress

YouTube allows you to easily share videos on many popular blogging platforms, such as Blogger and WordPress. With the latter, you can either link your WordPress.com account, or your self hosted blog. I tried this several times, only to find an unexplained error message on YouTube. Finally, thanks to The Social Media Guide, I know [...]

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How to upgrade WordPress

If a new stable version of WordPress is available, you’ll be prompted to upgrade at the top of the dashboard. Upgrading not only introduces some new (and usually cool) features to your installation, but it also protects you from hackers as security holes are being fixed. I reccomend you upgrade as soon as a new [...]

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WordPress Themes

Here are some sites to check out for FREE WordPress Themes: http://www.themescore.com/ http://www.amazingwordpressthemes.com http://www.wordpress.org/extend/themes I’ll amend this list if and when I discover more – drop me a line of a resource you can think of.

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How to add a Favicon to my website?

Simple! Follow these steps: check out this fabulous free Favicon Generator: http://www.favicon.cc/ find or draw a picture you like download the file FAVICON.ICO and copy it into your root directory celebrate your new Favicon That’s it!

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