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Free Live Chat Software

Rui Soares — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:43:20 +0000

Here’s a list of a few live chat scripts. They are all open source and free:

Olark allows you to monitor and chat with customers as they browser your website.

LiveZilla is a Live Help, Char and Support script, that also allows you to monitor your visitors in real time.

New User Email Setup

Rui Soares — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:51:56 +0000

WordPress supports different roles. A subscriber can login to your blog and then comment without having to provide their name, email and website. On some blogs, you have to be a subscriber to comment, because the blog doesn’t allow anonymous comments, from unregistered visitors. Other roles include additional privileges. A contributor can write articles, that will have to be approved by an editor or administrator. An author can write and publish articles, without moderation from an editor or administrator. And an editor and a administratior have additional privileges. Some blogs have a team or community orientation, encouraging the registration of subscribers, authors and editors.

When a visitor registers, to become a subscriber, he receives an automatic email generated by WordPress. How do you edit the message that is sent on that email? You will need a plugin for that purpose.

New User Email Setup is a new plugin for WordPress that enables you to change the subject, text body, from address, admin subject and admin text body of that automatic email, from WordPress’s administration interface. You wil be able to personalize your Welcome email and give it a personal touch.

Bug Hunt For WordPress 2.9

Rui Soares — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:11:24 +0000

Jane Wells from Wordpress has just announced a bug hunt for WordPress 2.9. She just announced 2 three day periods, the first will be 5, 6 and 7 of November, the second will be 14,15 and 16 of November 2009.

This is not for the ordinary WordPress users. It’s for developers and programmers. And it’s all about testing new patches, fixing bugs and reporting new bugs.

WordPress has a owner. And he’s rich. Why is there so much support from programmers to the development of this product? WordPress is an open source script and it’s free. Any programamer can read the code and understand how WordPress works. But a user can do more than understand how WordPress works. He can change the code and adapt the script to his own needs and requirements. Because it’s such a powerful and flexible tool, with millions of users, the interest in the development of this script is a community interest. And that is what drives this community approach to the development of this script.

Missing Images In Oscommerce

Rui Soares — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:46:23 +0000

Is your oscommerce script not displaying images? You access your site and every image is missing. And you’re not using a ssl certificate. Try this:

Do you know how to access your script’s files? You can do that with an ftp client, ssh client or through a file manager in your hosting control panel. Find both configuration files. You will find one of the configuration files in includes/ and the other in admin/includes/

Open it. There’s a variable for the https url. Just put the same value that’s in your http url. That will probably fix your image issue.