Automating the copyright notice on a web site with a dynamic date is easy to do with PHP. We do this on every site that we develop, including WordPress sites. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a bill that was introduced in the US Senate that could allow Hollywood–or any other content provider–to have a web site shut down due to an accusation of intellectual property theft. Read the rest of this entry »

The image upload and insert feature has been around since WordPress 2.5, but remains very confusing for many users. In this tutorial we show you how to use this feature to upload and insert images directly into your Pages and Posts. Read the rest of this entry »

We recently noticed an issue where Yahoo indexed several pages from one of our WordPress sites using the WordPress shortlink, rather than the permalink. Here is the method for resolving this issue. Read the rest of this entry »

We recently picked up a client whose web designers stored hundreds of images on her web server. The client is not tech-savvy and wanted to find a way to view the images on her server. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have started working with the new WordPress Twenty Eleven theme that comes with WordPress 3.2.x, you probably noticed that the menu sidebar is missing from the default page and post pages. Read the rest of this entry »

California’s Governor Jerry Brown, formerly known as Governor Moonbeam during previous term in office, signed a budget with a provision requiring Amazon.com and other online merchants to collect sales taxes if they use affiliate marketers to help drive traffic to their web sites. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are considering the opportunity to get into affiliate marketing, your choices may be limited in some states due to the drive to impose sales tax collection on online merchants who have no nexus in the state. That is pushing dozens of online merchants to cancel their relationships with affiliates in states that redefine their tax laws in order to force Amazon and other online merchants to charge sales taxes. Read the rest of this entry »

This issue frequently arises when site owners want to convert legacy .htm or .html pages to run PHP, but they do not want to change the file name extensions due to the potential loss of rank positions when the URLs are changed. It is easy to convert HTML pages to run PHP if you know how and you can change those static pages to run dynamic PHP code. Read the rest of this entry »

Moving a WordPress blog to a new hosting company is not difficult if you follow these steps. The WXR method requires minimal technical skills. You just need basic skills using an FTP utility to download and upload files and directories. Read the rest of this entry »