Adsense Ad Bad Practice
Look at the Ad’s below. They are Google Adsense ads, however where is the “Ads by Google” label that is required?
How to noindex the https version of your pages
Your site has SSL enabled so each page can be http OR https. How to you avoid having duplicate content?
Solved: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
If you get an error similar to: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration on 1and1, create a blank file called php.ini, and place the following line in the file. allow_url_fopen = ON then upload the file to the root folder of the domain, and it should solve the problem.
Redirect directory and contents using htaccess
How to redirect an entire directory and all internal files using the htaccess file.
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 [...]
Tracking Email Marketing Results
Find out if users are reading and responding to your email newsletters. This simple method will determine a direct correlation between newsletter clicks and sales.
Website backups
How to automate website backups. Follow this very simple procedure to schedule your website backups. You will be glad you did.
WordPress image uploader crashing Firefox
If you are having trouble with Firefox crashing when you go to try to upload an image using the WordPress flash-based image uploader. Here is a quick fix. Go into your Firefox addons. (Tools – Add ons). Find the Google Gears entry. Click Disable button, and restart your Firefox Browser.
WordPress Automatic Update with 1and1
How to make the automatic update work with your WordPress blogs that are hosted on 1and1 shared servers. These are blogs that you set up yourself, not the blog that 1and1 can install for you. The problem I was having was the update would start, and then just stop after a few seconds. Then in [...]
Musical Notes
How to display musical notes without images. (ASCII) The quarter note: ♩ which is ♩ The eighth note: ♪ which is ♪ The single bar note: ♫ which is & #9835; The double bar note: ♬ which is & #9836;
Removing the Generator Tag from WordPress
Before making changes to your theme, always make sure you backup your files. Within your themes directory is a file called functions.php. Simply add this line to that file between the php tags (ex: under the <?php tag ) remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’); This will remove the “generator” tag from appearing in the meta head section of [...]
Secure Contact Form to Prevent Spam
If you are looking for a secure and reliable contact form for your website. Please check out www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-php-form-mailer-script/ The emphases here is on secure, many times these scripts are terribly exploited by spammers, this one seems to be well done. I use this very form on many sites, and it works fabulously. Here is a [...]
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