Posted by admin on Jan 13th, 2011 | 0 comments
A friend asked me to investigate why he was unable to use any Twitter plugins with his blog, but only on a specific server. After Googling around a little, I saw solutions that ranged from disabling PHP’s oauth module, to updating server time. It turns out that none of these fixed the problem – the issue was lack of SSL support for Curl.
His server is running cPanel, and although Curl...
Posted by admin on Nov 19th, 2010 | Comments Off
I was called by a client today who had looked at her site in Google’s cache and was shocked to see spam links for penis pills. When she viewed her site, however, there were no links to be seen. Thinking the hosting provider had fixed the issue, I looked at the most recently-cached item, which was only a few hours old, and saw that the links were still there. The database was clean, and no...
Posted by admin on Oct 18th, 2010 | 0 comments
One of the things that makes WordPress so great is the fact that you can extend it, without touching the core, through the use of plugins. Here is the list of must-have plugins that I put on every blog I deploy, and why:
All In One SEO Pack – allows you to set custom titles, and meta descriptions very easily.
Sociable – adds social bookmarking icons to your posts.
NextGEN Gallery...