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Convert Static HTML Site to WordPress Easily
NOTE: This post was originally posted in January of 2009 and was intended to help small HTML sites (5 to 10 pages) convert to WordPress. A lot has changed since then, and if you are trying to convert a larger site I highly recommend taking a little deeper approach. I have written another post (Convert [...]
Disable Magpie Cache in WordPress
Using RSS in WordPress can have a lot of benefits, however, there is also one major drawback. It will cause severe bloating of the WordPress Options table, and if the WordPress Options table is too large it will slow a blog down to a crawl. To solve this problem you can clean out the RSS [...]
Google Chrome Pagerank
Google Chrome is an excellent browser, although to date it is missing several things that most people have come to expect as standard functions in their browsers. One of these functions is the ability to see the Page Rank of a given page. This is almost ironic since Chrome and Page Rank are both from [...]
eBay Affiliate Program
I must say I have been pleasantly surprised by the eBay Affiliate program at ebayPartnerNetwork. I had used eBay as an affiliate before but with very little success. And I have heard all sorts of stories about some of the eBay Scripts and plugins on WordPress sites being very troublesome and causing problems with search [...]
Display Ads Only On Selected WordPress Posts
Every blog is a little different and has it’s own unique requirements. On some blogs we may want to place an ad on every post, on others we may not. A good example is this blog. There are a few posts that I make where I feel an ad is useful and lends itself to [...]
Google Promote and Remove
Google is experimenting with new Promote and Remove buttons in the SERPS moving the search experience to a more personal level. They clearly state that this is an experiment and it may only last a short time. This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search [...]
Web Programming
Years ago I started programming in ASP (Active Server Pages). This was a great language and was fairly easy to migrate into. However, the “cost of inclusion” was rather high as it is a Microsoft language and required (of course) that you be hosted on a Microsoft platform server. Then Microsoft decided to upgrade ASP [...]
The Non Blogger
I guess that is what I am, the Non Blogger. I sat down early Saturday morning with the intention of catching up my blogs and doing some writing. So what happened? Someone emailed me and confirmed an idea I already was thinking about, and that sent me on a 2 day programming project, lol. So [...]
Google Chrome First Impressions
Not sure that I agree with Dave Winer that there is nothing new here, some things just might not be as apparent yet. Google Chrome is a brand new browser, plus I think Google is held to such a higher standard everyone is expecting the most out of the first release on anything they do. [...]
Emerging Media Specialist
Inspired by an ad I saw on Twitter for a Emerging Media Specialist I created a simple little web site that demonstrates how to show different media searches on one page seamlessly without having to reload any pages. With one search you get results for Video, Web, Twitter, News, Books and Images. The videos are [...]
XML Parsing Error in WordPress
I have posted about this problem before, however, since the WordPress Automatic Plugin Updates (WPAU) have been working there is a new culprit for this bug. It appears to be somewhat of a random bug that occurs when you run an automatic upgrade on a plugin. To catch this bug before it causes an unexpected [...]
