My Personal Tech Blog
As I work on websites and hook up new hosting and migrate customers, the issue of getting reliable outgoing email is a constant issue. Not all hosting companies have built-in email services like they used to. Running an email system is a lot of work, and you have a constant
Continue readingIf you have iThemes Pro like I do, you may come across an unfortunate situation where the entire site locks up for all users everywhere. All communications seem to stop, nobody can get in from any IP anywhere. Not to the backend, not to the frontend, nowhere! You can try
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Learn how to automatically log in a WordPress user after registering via a Gravity Forms form.
Continue readingThis 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.
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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
Continue readingIf 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.
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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
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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
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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
Continue readingThis 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
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