November 1st, 2009
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.
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November 1st, 2009
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.
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November 1st, 2009
Today is SEO day. I hit a hot zone regarding SEO. So, here comes another article about SEO.
Every website needs visitors. How do you get visitors to come to your website? With communication. That’s the tool you use to relate with others. In business, it’s also called marketing. And Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about how you communicate your message to search engines, with the intent of reaching your audience, when they search for keywords related to that message.
One of the problems of SEO companies is the management of new client’s expectations. Most new clients think search engine optimization is a 1 day, click a button action, with instant results. And it’s not. I think the internet has a label attached to it of easy money, get rich fast, no hard work, get a 1 dollar hosting account, free stuff. And business men, that deal every single day with real life competition, when they order SEO services they just forget that the internet is not a dream world.
I know a few books about SEO that use the idea of 1 hour a day. How do I translate that idea to this article? Communicate with your audience 1 hour a day, through SEO. When do you stop doing SEO? When you have nothing to say to your audience…
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November 1st, 2009
Google announced yesterday that it’s using RSS / ATOM Feeds to index new webpages. Clever move! Instead of waiting to crawl an already indexed webpage with a link to new content, google is using the same rss / atom feeds we all use to notify our readers of new content to index that new content. What does this mean?
- Google will index new content faster.
- It will be easier for webmasters to index new webpages in Google.
Twitter is all about live search. And Google is fighting to keep it’s search monopoly.
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October 30th, 2009
As you know, you can limit the number of emails any account can send, per hour, in WHM. Just click Tweak Settins, below Server Configuration. But, how do you assign a different value for an individual account, different fro the value assigned to everyother account? You might want to give a certain account a greater limit. Or even restrict that account’s hability to send emails.
SSH to your server. And open the file /var/cpanel/maxemails. Then just add the code:
domain.com=100
This value will override the default value for this domain. So, if you assigned a 2000 limit in Tweak Settings, domain.com would have a limit of 100.
Tags: number of emails per hour
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October 29th, 2009
Moniker just held a domain auction and the top 20 sellers were:
- multivitamins.com, sold for $45,000
- originals.com, sold for $37,500
- raspberry.com. sold for $27,500
- istream.com, sold for $25,000
- trademarklawyers.com, sold for $24,000
- hockey.org, sold for $22,500
- costumerentals.com, sold for $21,000
- designersunglasses.com, sold for $21,000
- i.biz, sold for $17,000
- newyorkers.com, sold for $14,500
- tested.com, sold for $12,000
- lnn.com, sold for $11,000
- cuffs.com, sold for $9,500
- skilodge.com, sold for $9,500
- ustrademarks.com, sold for $9,000
- tenniscamp.com, sold for $8,000
- organic.info, sold for $7,700
- recipebooks.com, sold for $7,500
- collectiblecoins.com, sold for $7,000
- ny.biz, sold for $7,000
Domains can be a very good investment.
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October 29th, 2009
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.
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October 29th, 2009
Sometimes, you list accounts in WHM and the disk limit of each account is unlimited. That’s obviously a problem, because you wont be able to limit disk space usage. The fix is normally an easy fix. Just login to your server with ssh and run this command
/scripts/fixquotas
Usually this script will fix this problem.
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October 29th, 2009
Is your /usr partition full? Or almost full? That could be a problem. Here’s a way to fix it.
Run:
cd /usr/local/apache/logs/
List the contents of that directory with ll. Are there any big files? Empty those files. Here’s an example. If you want to empty error_log for example, just run:
echo > error_log
You can repeat this procedure in /usr/local/cpanel/logs/. Just empty any large files.
Then go to /usr/local/apache/domlogs/. And list the biggest 10 or 20 files. For the top 10, run:
ls -al -SR | head -10 —>
Are there any big files? Running awstats for that domain should clear the file. Just run:
/scripts/runweblogs user
Login to WHM. Check if log rotation is active for apache and cpanel logs. For apache, click Service Configuration -> Apache Configuration -> Log Rotation. For cpanel, click Service Configuration -> cPanel Log Rotation Configuration.
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October 29th, 2009
Do you want to point your domain to a different domain, but in such a way that your domain appears always in the address bar of the visitor’s browser?
This is very useful when someone wants to point a domain to a free hosted application. Example: you build a website in a free hosting service or a free website builder service. And the website is hosted in a subdomain of that free service. And you don’t want your visitors to access that subdomain. You want them to access your domain instead.
It only applies if you have a hosting service. If you don’t, ask your domain registrar to point the domain to whatever url you want the domain to point to. Ask them to add a mask to the domain forward, so that the your domain remains always in the visitor’s address bar. In case you do have a hosting account, here’s how you can do that redirection. It’s called a Domain Iframe Redirect.
Upload an index.html with this code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Replace with title visitors will see if browser doesn't support javascript</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeTitle()
{
if (top.frames['main'].document.title)
{
top.document.title=top.frames['main'].document.title;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<frameset>
<frame name="main" src="http://replace-this-url.destination-domain.com"scrolling="auto" target="main" ONLOAD="changeTitle();">
<noframes>
<body>
Please enable iframe support in your browser to access this website.
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Read the comments in the code. Replace what needs to be replaced. And you’re ready to go!
Tags: iframe redirect
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