Hide Blog Post Date In Your WordPress Theme

While visiting Lynn Terry’s Clicknewz blog, I noticed something that I hadn’t really given a lot of thought to: is there a reason to NOT display a blog post’s date? (Off-Topic Warning – Lynn writes a fantastic blog on Internet Marketing with posts like Taking Daily Action: Huge Goals, Little Steps – you really should [...]

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Protect Your Email Address From Spammers

So you’ve started a new blog, and now the worst has happened – the spammers have your email address. You know, the one that’s on every post where you’re listed as the author. You can do what a lot of people do to combat the dreaded email harvester. Give them a throw-away address to chew [...]

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Graphic Design Book Blowout! Over 70% Off Retail!

I am done completely with print design and design in general. Because it’s also spring-cleaning time for my office in preparation for a move, these books really need to find a new home. I would prefer to sell them as one package, but let me know if there’s one or two that you want. There [...]

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Cleaning Up the Aftermath of a Hacker Attack

The same project that led to the post Loading WordPress From index.php involved cleaning up after a hacking incident. In fact, that’s what the initial work order was for. This blog was hit recently by the same attack that has been in the news for the last few days. Lorelle on WordPress wrote some things [...]

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Loading WordPress From index.php

One of WordPress’ strengths is its attention to SEO-related issues in its core files. One of those issues is the problem of having the home page of the blog indexed twice in the search engines; once under the actual address, http://domain-name.com/index.php, and the other as the plain domain name: http://domain-name.com. Note that this is a [...]

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Don’t Subscribe To My Post Comments If You’re a SpamArrest Customer

On this and other blogs, I have a recurring pain in the butt issue. Some people subscribe to a comment thread, and upon every comment following, I get a challenge email from SpamArrest when the notification of a new comment email is sent. Here’s news: I don’t click the verify link. As a matter of [...]

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Protecting Your WordPress Blog From Hackers, Crackers, and Jerks

The last few days have seen a rash of hacker attacks on WordPress blogs, with isolated reports going back a month or more. Without exception, as far as I can tell, the successful attacks were on blogs running outdated older versions of WordPress. The latest exploits involve hidden admin users and permalinks polluted with javascript [...]

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Skype Can Be a Pain In the Ass

I don’t restart my computer very often; it mostly runs 24/7. So when I did have occasion to do a restart, I was hit with the issue that my development instance of Apache wouldn’t start. I would get the error: “Windows could not start Apache 2.2 on Local Computer. For more information, review the System [...]

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