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May 23, 2012

How to Privately Test Drive a New WordPress Theme

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I’m finally getting around to upgrading my last few blogs to the Genesis Framework from StudioPress and have decided to spare my readers the ugliness that usually accompanies such a change. In this video I discuss how to use a plugin that allows you to test drive a new WordPress theme in the background, so [...]

How to Fix the set_magic_quotes_runtime is deprecated Error

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With my latest WordPress upgrade, I once again ran into problems with my Max Banner ads program not functioning properly. Folks would click the ad and see a page full of “set_magic_quotes_runtime is deprecated” text. UGH!! This isn’t an MBA problem, but rather a WordPress problem and easy to fix. Watch the video below to [...]

Tag Clouds: Prettier with Plugins

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I like placing tag clouds on my blogs’ sidebars or footers. Displaying your blog’s tags in cloud format is an easy way to point your visitors to your most popular topics. The WordPress default tag cloud appearance leaves a little to be desired however, so this article explains how to format prettier tag clouds. In [...]

Upgrade to WordPress 3.1 Now

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WordPress Version 3.1 was released to the public on February 23, 2011. Highlights include: Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content and select it for inclusion. Streamlined Writing Interface – new users of WordPress will find [...]

Server Outages: Plan for the Worst

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Rarely a day goes by that I don’t learn some new lesson about doing business online. Some of those lessons are more important than others – and the lesson I learned last week was a doozy. I’d just spent the better part of a day reconfiguring this site with a new framework and theme, uploading [...]

WordPress 3.0.3 Update

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WordPress 3.0.3 was released to the public yesterday (December 8, 2010). This latest release is a security update for all previous versions, which according to WordPress: Fixes issues in the XML-RPC remote publishing interface which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish or delete posts. If you have users operating [...]

Can’t See Your .htaccess File?

I know how frustrating it is when you’ve logged onto your server using WS-FTP and can’t for the life of you find your .htaccess file. You KNOW it’s there. You’ve seen it from your cPanel interface. But because using FTP for transfers is easier, you want to be able to see it there too. Well, [...]