Don’t Expose Your Clients Email Address

This is a common mistake I see particularly with small businesses. If you send an email and you put all the recipients in the TO: field you expose all the emails addresses to everyone on the list. Although you hopefully do not have any clients that would use this information maliciously ... More on Don’t Expose Your Clients Email Address →

Amazon Simple Store in PHP with Mandatory Signed Requests

Several years ago I used Amazon software for a lot of sites. But after they changed their authentication there was a lack of documentation and I lost interest in trying to fix the old code. I kept going back to their site and forums to see if anyone had ever ... More on Amazon Simple Store in PHP with Mandatory Signed Requests →

Hyphen vs Underscore in URL

This has always been a topic of discussion in relation to SEO and building websites. I have always thought it was important, but not critical to use hypens instead of underscores in a URL. However, since it is so easy to solve I have always recommended using hypens and not underscores ... More on Hyphen vs Underscore in URL →

Classic Rock WordPress Blog For Sale

Website for sale! It is a WordPress blog about Classic Rock. The domain is 4 years old  and has a Google Page Rank of 3. It needs some work as it gets 1,000 visitors a month. I am cleaning house and I would like to find it a new home as I just ... More on Classic Rock WordPress Blog For Sale →

How To Disable A Parent Item Link on WordPress Menu

While working on a Client site recently it became apparent we needed to make the top level Parent link not go anywhere. As an example if you have a menu item named Products, and under it you have 10 product pages you may want that top item not to be ... More on How To Disable A Parent Item Link on WordPress Menu →

Add Author to RSS Feed in WordPress

If you have multiple authors on a WordPress blog you may want to add the Author name to the RSS feed title. Although the standard RSS feed file in WordPress contains the author if you view the RSS feed you will not be able to see the Author name through standard ... More on Add Author to RSS Feed in WordPress →

Failure Configuring Windows Updates on Windows 7

This morning I had a notice to Install Updates on Shut Down for my Windows 7 machine. Once I rebooted I would receive the error “Failure Configuring Windows Updates”. This seemed to be an infinite loop as I tried to restart the machine several times to configure the updates. There ... More on Failure Configuring Windows Updates on Windows 7 →