There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
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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…
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…
Best Free WordPress eCommerce Plugin: An Overview Of The Premium eStore Plugin By Tips & Tricks HQ
The developers at Tips & Tricks HQ put together a free plugin for WordPress that makes it very simple to add an “Add to…
Extensive Guide On Setting Up Advertising On A WordPress Blog Using Plugins
If you run a WordPress blog and you have been approached by someone wanting to do some advertising with you but you aren’t sure…
Case Study: Using Article Spinning To Quickly Generate Content And How You Can Spin Text Safely Post-Panda
Article spinning is/was an approach many marketers leverage(d) to distribute a fair amount of “unique” content around the Internet stemming from just one base…
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…
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…
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…
Making Drupal 7 More User-Friendly: Line Breaks And WYSIWYG Headlines
For the past weeks, every day I learnt a little about Drupal. For me Drupal is a wild horse that has to be tamed…
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…
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…
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…
What are responsive WordPress themes, and why are they important?
The idea of a responsive WordPress theme, or responsive website design in general, is very simple, but very powerful. However, before explaining “responsive design”…
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…
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.…
How to Increase Engagement on Google+
If you are trying to expand your reach to different social media platforms or if your company’s target demographic consists of young, tech-savvy consumers,…
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…
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…
Screen Real Estate – 4 Ways to Optimize Productivity
Anyone who’s started any type of business online will tell you, time management is one of the most difficult things to master in working…
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…
How to set up a WordPress eCommerce Site using WooCommerce
Product owners, whether having digital or physical products, or a combination of the two, like to “set up shop” on the Internet as a…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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.…
7 Best SEO Practices for WordPress
Optimizing your site for search engines should be on top of your to-do list as a webmaster. And while writing unique and interesting content…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…