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How To Install Drush On CentOS 6.X
Drush is a command line tool to manage your Drupal installations, for example to clear caches. Here’s a guide how to install and configure…
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,…
Thesis 2.1: Top 8 New Features and Updates
A popular WordPress design and template manager, Thesis gave its followers a cause for celebration several months ago by releasing a feature-packed update, Thesis…
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.…
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…
Clean WordPress Comment Meta Table: Get Rid Of Akismet Meta And Table Overhead
Cleaning up your tables from time to time is a job every webmaster should do to keep the site running smoothly. It is generally…
Creating A Symbolic Link On CentOS 6.x For FFmpeg
Sometimes Drupal and other CMS’s have problems detecting system paths – it’s understandable since every server is using unique control panels and often completely…
How To Delete WordPress Comments Labeled Spam via PHPMyAdmin
Alright, so most of the guides out there don’t actually tell you how to delete comments labeled spam, they only tell you how to…
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…
Installing Git On CentOS 6.x
There are many tools out there that can make your daily webmaster life a little easier to manage. One of the few Unix-tools that…
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…
How to see a list of loaded Apache modules
Quite often, you need to figure out what Apache modules are currently loaded. If you have access to a shell on your server, you…
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…
Video: How To Use Custom Social Media Share Buttons For WordPress – Code Provided
In general, I just use one of the many available plugins for WordPress to include social share buttons on my web site. But sometimes,…
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…
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.…
Tutorial: Installing Mod GeoIP on Cent OS 6 or 7
A webmaster should know how to install Apache modules and recompile Apache using apxs. In this article, I will take a closer look at…
Video: How to Make Sure Google Authorship is Working
Have you ever searched Google for something and seen that some of the authors have their photos next to their articles? Or maybe searched…
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…
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…
A Guide to How to Add Polls on WordPress Part 1
It’s been said before, social media should be a conversation and not a broadcast. However, have you ever considered that the same was true…
CentOS: “Conflicts with file from package python-crypto-2.0.1-22.el6.x86_64”
This is another CentOS report to help fellow CentOS users. Here’s a workaround for the error “Conflicts with file from package”.
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…
How To Install Epel Repo on CentOS 6 or 7
CentOS is one of the most reliable server operating systems. However, even CentOS does not include all RPM’s required to run and administrate your…
How to Create Polls for Your WordPress Site and Use Them Strategically – Part 2
This post is a continuation from Part 1. In the first part we talked about some of the reasons to create polls. And we…
10 Online Security Tips For Freelancers, Writers And Affiliates
Working online is a great opportunity, but it is important to keep security in mind, especially since a lot of personal and financial information…
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…
Dev: How To Install CentOS, Nginx, MySQL, PHP On VirtualBox From Official RPM
In this guide, I want to take a closer look at VirtualBox and how you can quickly set up a CentOS box with LEMP…
Beginners: Want an Alternative Email Client to Microsoft Outlook? – Quick Steps to Setup and Configure Thunderbird
When you start creating multiple email addresses, it can get a bit tricky to manage. However, almost every email client allows you to include…
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…
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…
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…
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic?
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic? The main reason why a Pinterest-like page is welcome to WordPress is that the former…
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…