The idea of a responsive WordPress theme, or responsive website design in general, is very simple, but very powerful. However, before explaining “responsive design”…
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The Best WordPress Security Plugin For 2013 (Triagis Reviewed)
There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
DU: How To Validate Linux Server Backups Using Directory Size
Rsync is a pretty reliable tool to sync files from your server to a remote server, but how would you validate that all files…
5 Online Productivity Tools for Keeping Yourself On Track
Looking for more ways to stay focused when working online? If not, you most certainly should be. I write about productivity a lot because,…
How To Install XDebug On CentOS 6.X / WHM Server, Configure PHPStorm And Forward Firewall Ports
If you want to debug PHP sites, you need to install a great deal of programs and you need a decent IDE. In this…
How To Secure Your Wp-Admin Backend: Htaccess Apache Authentication
As a result of the recent brute force attacks on self hosted WordPress sites, I decided to create a second level of authentication for…
8 Productivity Tips for Professional Webmasters
Deciding to make a living as a webmaster means taking on a lot of the kinds of responsibilities employed workers never have to worry…
4 Tips On Performing Your Next WordPress Maintenance
In general, WordPress offers a mostly hands off experience. On occasion you will see numbers show up in the left side bar of the…
Fix – Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
One message I encountered the other day when I was installing some RPM’s was “Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.”. Here’s what it means…
7 Ways to Speed Up WordPress
Speed has a lot to do with optimizing your site’s performance because everyone nowadays likes things fast; fast connection, fast loading pages, fast file…
How To Secure Your WordPress Installation (Video)
In this article I am going to discuss some of the general tweaks that can be performed to improve the security for a WordPress…
Productivity Guide: Save Time As A Writer, Affiliate Or Webmaster With AutoHotKey
I considered recently the amount of time that it takes to perform certain tasks on the computer. I implemented a voice recognition app in…
5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Drupal For Your New Website
Content Management Systems (CMS) like Joomla or WordPress provide sufficient tools for managing your websites, but if you’re looking for something that has more…
Virtualbox: Adding internet access to your Linux machines
Virtualbox sometimes can be a little annoying to configure, for example you need to discard saved states before enabling a NAT adapter and other…
5 Tips to Maximizing Drupal’s Efficiency
While Drupal is an effective CMS it can be quite draining on your PC as far as your RAM and CPU usage, but there…
Changing WordPress wp-admin Path Using Lockdown WP Admin
WordPress is a secure-ish system by default but there are still several things that can be changed to make it a more secure environment.…
4 Ways To Fix PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found”
The other day I wrote an article on how to fix PYCURL error 7 , but there’s another more annoying error Pycurl error 22,…
5 Advantages of Drupal
When it comes to looking for an SEO-friendly content management system (CMS) then consider Drupal as a viable and effective option. It’ll help optimize…
Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
Productivity Tip For Webmasters: Save Time Resizing Photos With Light Image Resizer
Previously called “VSO Image Resizer,” the “Light Image Resizer” tool helps save time for those that constantly modify images on their computer. This is…
Fix “bc command not found” on Linux/CentOS for floating point arithmetic
The other day I wanted to perform some calculations via bash, but ended up getting an error “invalid arithmetic operator”. Here’s what you can…
Server Migration: 8 steps to moving WordPress to a new server
The process of moving WordPress to a new web server can be a quick and easy process. The general steps for the migration of…
National Cyber Security Awareness Part 1: How To Avoid Online Scams And “Homograph Attacks”
October is the National Cyber Security month. Our webhosting partners Singlehop asked me to write an article to raise awareness for this cause to…
30 Best Project Management Tools: Time, Budget And Expense Tracking
The following is a compilation of the 30 most useful project management tools to keep track of your expenses, time, budget, invoices, colleagues, files…
Top 10 Productivity Tools for Webmasters
A productivity tool is a piece of software that can help you increase work efficiency by streamlining your daily tasks. A variety of utility…
7 Ways How To SEO Your WordPress Website
Everyone knows that WordPress is an awesome platform for blogs, websites, and the like because it’s highly customizable. Plus it provides you with all…
What is a Content Management System?
A content management system or CMS, is exactly what you might think it is… a system (web-based software usually), used to manage content. Or,…
Fix “Cannot find config.m4” / And json_pp: command not found
For some reason PECL wouldn’t install a Perl package today and I ended up getting the error Cannot find config.m4
Updated: ‘Shell Shock’ Remote Code Exploitation: How To Patch Bash And Determine If Your System Is Vulnerable
A remote code exploitation dubbed ‘Shell Shock’ has been uncovered by Stéphane Chazelas, a security and Linux specialist working for a large software firm.…
Is Your “Temporary” Online Service Business Standing in the Way of IM Goals?
Providing much-needed services online is a great way to offset the costs of your online business project or even provide a full-time income so…
Memcached makes your Drupal site run faster
Memcached has proven to be an efficient system for the storing and distribution of cached data, which makes websites run faster and be more…
How to fix pycurl error 7: Yum couldn’t connect to host
Yum and Apt are great, but not flawless. I frequently encounter hiccups like “couldn’t connect to host”. Let’s troubleshoot this issue
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…
How to make your Drupal URL look human
When you try to develop a Drupal page and you’re rather new at it, you might find yourself running into difficulties in relation to…
Responsive Design: How to make a mobile website with WordPress
In this article I’d like to go over the steps necessary for building a WordPress web site that is mobile friendly. But first, why…