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Magento pre-checks – how to install curl, gd, mcrypt, and pdo using cpanel whm – yeah its easy!
I searched for hours and hours after I attempted to install Magento on a godaddy vps only to get this: Your server does not meet the following requirements in order to install Magento. The following requirements failed, please contact your hosting provider in order to receive assistance with meeting the system requirements for Magento: You [...]
WordPress 2.9 Out – Oh so fine…
WordPress 2.9 is supposed to embed video urls simply by pasting the url into its own line in a post – so here goes:
Don’t use WPAU plug-in to upgrade to WordPress 2.7!
I upgraded several of my blogs manually to the newly released WordPress 2.7 and they have worked out very well, however I upgraded one of my blogs using the WPAU plugin and the results were a disaster. Most of the functionality is there, however there have been several buggy screens inside the admin panel – [...]
WordPress 2.7 is the Microsoft Frontpage for Web2.0
When a co-worker said that earlier today, I must admit I was at first put off. I’m not a frontpage fan and I think frontpage websites look horrible. But then I gave it some thought. Frontpage made creating a website easy and intuitive; it was an amazing product at the time. WordPress makes creating high [...]
How to get emails from yourself using gmail and pop3
Google rocks in many ways – including gmail… but after moving a few of my clients to google hosted mail (client@clientsdomainname.com hosted using gmail servers), I ran into a snag. Its not actually something I would have expected to ever hear… The actually call went like this: Client: “I’m not getting all of my mail” [...]
How to reset your GoDaddy VDED Simple Control Panel Password
After purchasing the GoDaddy virtual dedicated server (VDED) with the simple control panel, I got locked out of the simple control panel. I could still SSH and FTP, but the simple control panel is a different login and mine wasn’t working. I had to call support to get the solution – its a simple one [...]
Creating HyperLinks in WordPress
This is a brief tutorial regarding how to create a hyperlink in your WordPress Post or Page. First we’ll talk about creating links to other sites – then we’ll talk about creating links to other area’s of your site. Highlight the text you want to link: MyLink –> Click on the icon in the editor [...]