WordPress is a great content management system to maintain a website with whether you use it for web pages or blog posts. There are three plugins I strongly recommend to help maintain your WordPress based websites.
Akismet
The “social web” is meant to facilitate user participation and promote user generated content. This can be accomplished in WordPress by enabling commenting and then encouraging readers to participate in discussions by leaving comments and optionally providing a URL to be linked from their name. The unfortunate part is comments attract spam.
Akismet checks …
Late last year, vBulletin changed their pricing structure and was not courteous enough to honor those who had purchased owned licenses. When I purchased my owned license in January of 2006, it was with the understanding that my website was licensed to use vBulletin for life with an optional yearly fee of $60 for support and the license included access to upgrades of the software. The new pricing structure of vBulletin has you paying $175 for each major upgrade while giving you access to minor upgrades and charging you $80/year …
I figured it was about time I started pumping energy back into my sip of water blog.
I noticed a couple of weeks back that there was a HUGE drop in traffic to my site and when you clicked on a link to go to a post, it was not redirecting properly. It was around that time that I had upgraded all of my WordPress sites and installed plugins. For some reason, there were duplicate rewrite rules in my .htaccess file I am assuming because I had added one and WordPress …
Figured I should make a post the sip of water blog merging with the purpleorange blog (and soon the phpark.com blog). In upcoming posts, I will cover more of how I went about doing so.
Blogging advice I have come across dictates that you should stick to one topic per blog which is advice I may have taken too literally. Over a year ago, I decided to split the topics I was interested in blogging about into three seperate websites.
Doing so presented a few problems for me. …
Over the last month, I’ve been adjusting to working part-time, coding a php-based web application, getting my family into a routine around my girlfriends school schedule and my work schedule and felt a cold hitting me literally as I walked to my car after my job interview. What a great way to start a new job!
People have thought me crazy over the past two or three years saying that I wanted to quit my corporate desk job to go work in a coffee shop where I could learn more …
I totally missed posting this last week. We went six days in a row of having a lot of storms here in Kelowna after a week of temperatures in the high 30s (and low 40s in some areas). I have always been fascinated by storms and lightning in particular after hearing the story of my mom getting hit indirectly when she was about 16/17.
Was speaking with a friend online about how crazy the lightning was one night which had us looking on YouTube. Here are some of …
