Site Management

With WordPress 3.0 we all now have access to the feature of multisite hosting that was available in WordPress MU multiuser version. This HowTo will explain some of the steps required to setup multisite hosting for both subdomain and subdirectory hosting but with a grain of salt you should understand that this process is not […]

I have been using a lot of custom fields in the past six months to bring databases online through WordPress. Now we are finding out that Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 may do away with Custom Fields in our Posts. The fact is using Custom Fields can be a drudgery but a very important […]

Google has just released a free security scanning tool for web developers called Skipfish. The tool is compiled by the end user and its C language code should work on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments. The idea behind skipfish is pretty basic … it will scan your webserver building an index and […]

If you are a website developer there are two different types of XML data sources you will come across. The first is a live feed directly to a database which can be found in an example of Amazon.com’s XML feed for affiliates. The second is an XML File that is an export of a database […]

Facebook is about to release some Open Source code that may change the way we write PHP. The project is called HipHop PHP or HHPHP and is a converter and compiler of PHP Code into a static & C++ Runtime. The project is said to be live on the Facebook site for about 8 months […]

The following script will allow you to keep track of your MySql Database size. This is important for those people who have limits on the size of their databases on their leased hosting. If you are running a WordPress install watching your database size will give you the option to clean out parts of your […]

Everyone wants to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing and the other popular search engines but often there are parts of your website that you should keep out of the indexes. There are a number of ways to accomplish this but if you are dealing with reputable search engines you only need to do a […]

The FEEDJIT visitor monitoring system will allow you to track your visitors live and get statistics about where the are located, what page refered them to you and what they liked looking at while on your site. Although some log management systems provide tracking of users and even live monitoring the best feature of this […]

As of October 1, 2009, Microsoft Office Live Small Business will no longer offer free domain name renewals. In the information below you can see that they have decided to start charging $14.95 per domain on an annual basis. Although not the highest price out there $15 for a domain when you can purchase one […]

You know how it goes x.x.0 versions are released and the first people that download are basically beta testers. You wait a few weeks and all the bugs start pouring in and you endup with a stable version you can actually use. This latest release is a security update from bugs found in 2.8.1 and […]