Twenty Ten and Featured Content Gallery
How to integrate the Featured Content Gallery plugin with the Twenty Ten theme from Word Press.
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Frugal Theme Review
No more wasting my time searching for the right theme to use. I have found the end-all theme that is now my go-to theme for whichever flavor site I am building.
I am sure many of you follow the same process I would follow when starting a new website.
1. Have an idea for a new site.
2. Install and configure WordPress and install plug-ins.
3. Search for the perfect theme.
Now number 3 would always take lots of web searching, downloading, installing, activating, removing, over and over, no theme ever seemed to be just right.
Then I found the Frugal Theme. I found I can really make this theme into any look and feel I want all from within WordPress. Just about every single detail can be changed with a few clicks. It also has SEO built right in (which eliminates the need for SEO).
I have discovered that the more I use and dig into the frugal theme the more powerful it becomes. You will find out that Frugal is actually much much more than just a WordPress theme.
Are you tired of searching for the right theme? Get the Frugal Theme, you will not regret it!
MySQL Query on timestamp using PHP
In this example I had to create a query only to display orders for the last 90 days.
The orders table is using a standard MySQL timestamp field to store the date of the order. I made timestamp indexed since we will be doing this query against this field.
I figured the easiest way was to only query those 90 days, that way I didn’t have to worry about looking at each row and comparing a date during output. All I had to worry about was creating the right query.
The first line simply is the number of days to go back in the query, in this case the number of days is 90.
The next 2 lines are used to create and format our new date 90 days in the past.
In the query we simply select all records that are newer than our 90 day old date.
$daysback = 90;
$accessdate = strtotime(“-$daysback days”,time());
$mysqldate = date( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, $accessdate );$myquery = “select id,ordernumber,timestamp from tblorders where (timestamp > ‘$mysqldate’);”;
CubeCart 5 Beta
When we opened our e-commerce store almost 2 years ago I spent a lot of time researching shopping cart software. Now I knew this would be both an important decision. Shopping cart software is a major influence on the success (or failure) of any e-commerce website.
Tasapspider/0.9
Just found this “bot” going crazy on a site that is on a dedicated server, took the entire server offline. This bot looks to be new and from China, so be on the lookout.
Other reports are saying it is ignoring the robots.txt file, so might not be good enough to deny it there.
It was coming from 218.28.29.236
Here are more details about that IP, and what ranges you might want to block.
http://whois.domaintools.com/218.28.29.236
I placed the following in my .htaccess file
order allow,deny
deny from 218.28.
deny from 218.29.
allow from all
Please post a comment if you this bot has hit your site.
Short Meta Descriptions Can Kill Your Website
If you look at the graph above you will see the nice steady growth of a website. Then suddenly a drop! The site in question dropped from an average of over 100 unique visitors per day down to less than 5 per day. Quite a significant drop! Once I was sure the drop was going to stick, I made a few minor changes and then just left the site alone for a long time. Yes, I was disappointed, but it was not something I had time or ambition to address at the time.
Note: you will see on the chart short regain of traffic, but this seems to be a normal “blip” that can happen as rankings are sorted out across Google data centers.
Fast forward a month or so, and I am looking in through the webmaster tools, and happen to notice the HTML suggestions section under Diagnostics. There I see a line that says: “Short meta descriptions x,xxx”, which is just about every single page of the site. Immediately I fix the problem with the meta descriptions.
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