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My Favorite WordPress Plugins

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

This list represents my goto common plugins most sites will use. I don’t always install all of them, of course, but within their various categories I reach for these. The list is always changing as I test different plugins against each other and find issues and try new things etc. Theme & Design Beaver Builder […]

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How to Create a Bootable USB Drive Using Command Line

August 23, 2016August 23, 2016 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

I use this technique all the time so I just stole the instructions for myself here. Insert the USB drive. Open a command prompt as administrator and type diskpart Type list disk Note the number of the USB drive. Type select disk <x> Where <x> is the disk number. Type clean << disk will be wiped out! Type create […]

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How To Show Thumbnail Images in Advanced Typepad Template Excerpts

May 23, 2016May 23, 2016 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

If you use advanced templates with Typepad, you might not be getting optimized images in your excerpt listings. In my case, the main index page was using “thumbnails” that were sized via CSS but in fact were the full size images. This slowed down the page load time for sure. In the Typepad settings there […]

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MediaFire Discontinues Desktop Sync

Mediafire Discontinues Desktop Sync

May 19, 2016May 23, 2016 Zack Wallace 4 Comments

I don’t know who is in charge over at MediaFire, but the last couple days have seen some scary messages. Firs this: Then a few days later I started getting a more “official” notice. “On July 30th, 2016, MediaFire will stop supporting desktop syncing through MediaFire Desktop.” I took a quick look online and it […]

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Scheduled Task Batch File Isn’t Working

November 30, 2015November 30, 2015 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

There are a couple things to keep in mind when you use the Task Scheduler in Windows to run a batch file. Actually there are only two that get batch files working for me on most occasions. Proper File Permissions The first thing is that the batch file itself must have proper file permissions for […]

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The Best Web Hosting for a Business

November 23, 2015March 8, 2016 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

There are a million articles on the Internet about who is the best webhost, or who is the best web host for “some specific purpose here“. This is not an article about the best “free” host or the best “cheap” host or the best host for web developers. This is about the best host for […]

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How to Monitor a Folder for Changes in Linux in Real Time

August 4, 2015November 23, 2015 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

This is a handy little command I found recently. I was testing something on my CentOS server and needed to look at a particular folder to wait for a file to appear. I quickly tired of typing ll over and over to see if the folder changed. After a little web searching I was almost […]

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A Day in the Life of Small Business IT

June 17, 2015June 17, 2015 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

8am – Look at scheduled tasks I have many repetitive tasks scheduled on the calendar in my business email. On a typical Monday morning usually a handful of tasks have become due. Most of these tasks don’t take much time and are related to maintenance chores, housekeeping, backups, etc. I usually tackle these tasks first. […]

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Convert Network Solutions CSV Product Exports to WooCommerce CSV Imports

April 11, 2014April 11, 2014 Zack Wallace 2 Comments

This post will eventually detail everything you need to do to export Network Solutions products into WooCommerce formats for importing. I wanted to start this post now even though it’s unfinished, so I can collect some feedback if this sort of thing is something more people are needing. There are no automated tools out there […]

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Fix Yahoo Mail Missing Contact List

April 2, 2014April 11, 2014 Zack Wallace Leave a comment

I’ve seen some posts online from people who claim to be missing their Yahoo mailing list tool. For some strange reason, Yahoo Mail collapses the contact list area, preventing you from creating a contact list, or group, or mailing list, or whatever you want to call it. When you have a list created, it does […]

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