for drive in $(ls -la /dev | grep -E 'sd[a-z]$' | awk '{print $10}'); do echo "Checking TLER setting for drive ${drive}:"; smartctl -l scterc /dev/${drive}; echo ''; done

To turn the setting on for a drive that states it is disabled:

smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/sdg

define( 'SHORTINIT', true );
require_once( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-load.php' );

This will tell WordPress to load up with as little as necessary. If you don’t have the SHORTINIT call then it will load all of WordPress as normal (which you probably don’t want).

If you have a lawn, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. I’ll show  you tips and tricks I use on my grass to make it look amazing.

What I ended up coming across was some css tricks that let you do numbering in different styles. I had to modify it to work with the lists I was making. First, I’ll give you the code to put into your theme’s custom.css file:

.fancy {
    counter-reset: fancy-counter;
    list-style: none;
}

.fancy li:before {
    content: counter(fancy-counter);
    counter-increment: fancy-counter;
    left: -40px;
    position: relative;
    top: 25px;
    font: bold 50px/1 Sans-Serif;
}

.fancy strong {
    margin-left: -30px;
}

Once this is in your theme’s custom.css file, you can create a new numbered list with WordPress just like you always have, with two exceptions:

1. You must use the bold tag at the begging of each section. As you can see in the css above, strong (which is what WordPress uses for bolding), has a margin that is being offset by 30 pixels. This is to counter the space the numbers take up.
2. You must add the fancy class to the <ol> tag. This can be done by changing your WordPress Visual Editor from Visual to Text mode. Change the <ol> to <ol class=”fancy”>. This prevents lists outside of your content from getting changed, ensuring your blog doesn’t break.

That’s all there is to it. Seems complicated at first but once you get it figured out it really doesn’t add much to your flow when creating new posts. But it has an amazingly beautiful effect that’ll help your blog look that much better.

The actual process is quite simple, and should have a small amount of downtime. We’ll be doing it sometime between 2AM and 9AM EST. The actual window of downtime shouldn’t be longer than 15 minutes.

I’ll be posting updates on this post. Our server techs will be handling the process to ensure it’s done as quickly as possible. I’ll update here if I get a more specific time frame.

Update: The process went smoothly with only a few minutes of downtime. Hurray!

1. They are easier to write. When you come up with a topic, it’s easy to keep it focused when it’s broken down into simple chunks. It really can help when you’ve got writers block to use a list to get your groove on.
2. They are easier to read. I’ll admit it, I skim over blog posts. I love blog posts that use lists because I can skim and skip what I know and read what I don’t. Then end result? I end up at your blog more often than ones that don’t.
3. Lists go viral. Now I’m guessing this is because they are easier to read so when you come across a post that isn’t in list format it just won’t go viral. But it’s true, my facebook feed is filled with these kinds of posts, and google serves me these pages all the time in my results too.
4. Lists make you look authoritative. It’s kinda funny but when someone has a blog post with 5 reasons of this or 5 reasons of that, they look like they thought it out more than someone who wrote the same content but didn’t put it in list form. There could be 5 more reasons, but the fact that they are numbered and presented that way makes it appear much more thought out.
5. They keep you on track. This has helped me before. I tend to go on tangents and move off topic. But when you say these are 5 reasons to use lists, I quickly stop myself when I realize I’m writing about another topic. In the end a much better blog post comes out because it’s kept on topic.

So there you have it, from the master blogger himself, 5 reasons to use lists when blogging!

First, this applies to anyone with a hosting account with cPanel. While there are some ways you can get a free blog, I would recommend having your own hosting account for many reasons. You get complete control over which themes and plugins you use, and more importantly you can’t be told the content you are writing about isn’t allowed.

Back to How To Make a Blog!

Once you are inside your cPanel control panel, it’s actually really easy. Simply goto Site Software, then click on WordPress. The next page has a bunch of options but the only one you have to change is the admin username, password, and email. The rest will automatically be filled for you.

Click install, and cPanel will actually make a blog for you. It will download all the necessary files, copy them appropriately, and install the database. The hard part is left up to you: writing blog posts! If you are still confused, I can make a blog for you ;-)

How To Make a Blog Look Good

I could have stopped there but then you’d have the same boring looking blog as everyone else. No worries, making a blog look good is just as easy, if not easier. Themes are located in the admin menu under Appearance. On the Themes page click Add New

WordPress will then show you a wide variety of themes you can install just by clicking Install. You’ll even get to preview them first. Find a theme that matches your style and you’ll enjoy writing all the more!

That’s all there is to it. If I helped you make a blog please let me know below!

If you already have it installed, your version of WordPress will automagically ask you to update it soon. If not, you really should it’s an amazing plugin that is so simple yet so handy. It shows you when you’ve made posts so you can visually see if you are behind or where you should publish your next one!

To download it, search for wpfuturecal inside the plugin directory, or check out it’s new official home on the Plus1Daily site!

http://plus1daily.com/plugins/wpfuturecal/

The phenomenon actually happens because most smaller lists have a more personal approach to them. It’s true that you can be personal with a larger list, but when it’s small it tends to be a small list of people you have a stronger relationship with.

Another way to think of it is this..  If you talk to 10 people every day, how long will you talk to them for? Now if you have 100 people every day, that time shrinks. At some point when your list size gets too big you can’t keep up with the personal level.

This isn’t a reason to stop building your list, but it’s why you shouldn’t sweat having a small list now. Take the time to interact with that list in a way you couldn’t if you had a larger list. You can ask them questions and have them reply to the email, for instance.

Now you must be asking, how did I get thousands of cron jobs? Well, I had a defunct plugin that was adding in new cron jobs over and over. I used Improved Cron to check out why my cron jobs weren’t firing, and found that it was flooded with cron jobs.

What’s interesting to note is a lot of plugins will add a cron job, but when you remove the plugin it doesn’t remove the cron job. So over years you can start to have a ton of junky cron jobs in there slowing everything down.

Delete WordPress cron jobs with phpMyAdmin: if you are familiar with phpMyAdmin, simply goto your WordPress database and open up the wp_options table. Do a search for crons.

Once you find the cron, simply delete it. Scary, but actually WordPress will automatically re-generate the field when necessary.

If you don’t know how to use phpMyAdmin, or are simply too scared, a neat trick you can do is to add this one line of code to your WordPress Theme functions.php file. If it doesn’t have it, then you can add it to any of the plugins:

delete_option( 'cron' );

Once you or anyone accesses your blog, this will delete that field. Then remove the code and you’re good to go! Now after doing this my cron jobs run much smoother.