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 …
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 …
Are you drowning in credit card debt like I am? Have you called asking for a better interest rate? I don’t know why I held out this long in phoning other then I was fearing them asking me my current salary to be told they couldn’t do anything because I wasn’t working.
On Wednesday, I finally phoned three of my credit card companies to ask if they could give me a better interest rate. I had heard from various places that the banks are currently itching for business …
Setting up a MySQL database from CPanel is a fairly easy and straightforward task. Of course, everything is easy once you know how to do it and that’s what I plan on showing you today!
I have created a screencast tutorial on how to setup a MySQL database from CPanel for your viewing pleasure. I may be a bit fast in the tutorial but I wanted to keep the screen cast as short as possible knowing you can watch it more then once and ask questions if you have …
