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 it is also considered [...]

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 fixed their Simple Store example [...]

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 as seperators. If you [...]

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 do not [...]

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 active. There are several plugins [...]