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This plugin creates a widget that allows you to easily display a block of affiliate links in your sidebar.
It's very easy to install and use and you do not need to enter all 6 of the widget to function properly.
I simply got sick of being ad blocked and for the time being many of these affiliate buttons work great and get past ad blockers.

As with everything free to use I do accept donations if you use it and enjoy it.

 

How to send email godaddy using asp.net mvc3

Send Email GoDaddy. I use GoDaddy for my Windows Hosting. It's affordable, supports ASP.Net 4.0 with MVC3, and supports multiple domains and SQL servers. The first issue I ran into was sending mail in code which is a little different than other Windows hosting providers. Here is what I did to get it to work perfectly without needing an actual email account with GoDaddy.

Add the following to your web.config file

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp deliveryMethod="Network">
        <network host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net"></network>
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Then simply using the built in SMTPClient() command with an assembled MailMessage like so.

new SmtpClient().Send(mailMessage);

Top 10 WordPress Plugins of 2012

Top 10 WordPress Plugins of 2012. I run multiple WordPress blogs and websites. Over time I have come to rely on a handful of plugins that I use on every site. Here is the list in no particular order.

- Automatic WordPress Backup

This plugin has literally saved me after an accidental ftp wipe of my entire site. Sure my database was intact but who wants to go through the trouble of rebuilding the sites plugins, themes and any custom code. AWB backups up all you content and database tables on a regular basis that you can choose to Amazon AWS.  You can also choose the option to delete backups over a month old so your monthly Amazon bill can stay under a dollar. Which is what I actually pay to backup my sites daily.

- BulletProof Security

This plugin creates secure .htaccess files and checks all your directory chmods. With regular updates there is no way anyone is going to exploit your wordpress site.

- Jetpack by WordPress.com

This plugin has about a dozen mini plugins within it that handle everything from video shortcodes, stats, sharing widgets, shortlinks and more. This plugin keeps my plugin count down with all the great stuff it takes care of for me. A must have in any plugin library.

- WordPress SEO

I used to use all in one seo but honestly this one blows it out of the water. Every post has an intuitive guide at the bottom that helps you make everything as compliment as possible to get on Google quick and fast. Not to mention it has a built in sitemap generator and page analyzer that scores your seo effectiveness for each post and page.

- W3 Total Cache

Caching is important for speed and server costs. Not only does this plugin handle caching of everything it also minimizes and combines javascript and css. There is also the ability to use a content delivery network. Tons of options to play with producing real time results. A must have.

- Theme My Login

I like to keep my visitors out of the loop when it comes to the framework I use. Sure a savvy user can view source but I was always bothered by the wordpress login/register page. It looked like a completely different site potentially causing some users to back off on registering. This addon integrates all login and registration functions into your sites layout. Simple, effective and easy to install.

- Broken Link Checker

When you make blog posts and pages that link to external sites you run the risk of one of those external sites disappearing in the future. This plugin alerts you so you can remove the link or find a new link so your users aren't clicking into 404 pages.

- WPtouch

If you plan on users accessing your site from a mobile device make sure you use this plugin. Not only does it convert your site to a mobile version you can include you AdSense ID to display mobile friendly ads. You can also control what you want to be displayed excluding certain categories, posts or pages.

- WP-Optimize

A clean database is a happy database. I use this weekly to wipe some of the auto saves and garbage I have accumulated and in turn MySQL is optimized and the size stays down.

- SEO Friendly Images

Let's face it. Adding alt text to images is a pain and sometimes you are using images from other sites. This plugin makes sure every images on your site has an alt tab so they can be indexed. Which in turn means people end up on your site when using google image search.

Install RoR Passenger MediaTemple

Updated 02/03/2012 to reflect new stable versions of the software used.

The following article is a summary of the 3 days I spent trying to get this to work. The installation is not the same installation explained by Passenger's website and a ton of other websites. This article pertains to Ruby on Rails, Media Temple and Passenger for Apache a simple to use replacement for Mongrel.

First of all you have to have a fresh (or re-imaged) DV 3.5 account with MediaTemple otherwise this article does not apply to you.

1. Go to your MediaTemple account center and click the domain you are using. You will then see a link labeled Root Access & Developer Tools. Go there and activate both.
2. Open up you favorite ssh program to access to the great unix command line of your dedicated server. I use plain old terminal on Mac OSX.
3. Login to your server with the command ssh root@yourdomain.com
4. Run the following command to update your CentOS rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.4.el5.noarch.rpm
5. Do the same with this command rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.4.3.el5.centos.1.noarch.rpm
6. Use YUM to remove the current Ruby install so we can update to the latest version by running yum remove ruby
7. Change to your opt directory cd /opt
8. Get the current Ruby build, I am providing a link for 1.8.7 which is the current version as of 2-24-2009 wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p0.tar.gz
9. Now run the tar command to extract the archive we just downloaded tar -zxvf ruby-1.9.3-p0.tar.gz
10. Now we are going to create a link so you can access ruby without added the version numbers ln -s ruby-1.9.3-p0 ruby
11. Now lets head to our ruby directory cd ruby
12. Run the command to install ruby ./configure && make && make install
13. Lets pop out of this directory now cd ../
14. We should now grab the latest RubyGems version which is 1.3.1 as of 2-24-2009 wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.8.15.tgz
15. Uncompress the archive tar -zxvf rubygems-1.8.15.tgz
16. Goto the new directory cd rubygems-1.8.15
17. Run the setup to install RubyGems ruby setup.rb
18. Now that we have gems installed we can start installing things in a much more simple manner. Start with Rails. gem install rails
19. Now we will install Passenger the great Apache RoR app that we will be using instead of mongrel. gem install passenger
20. We need to run one additional command to get Passenger setup passenger-install-apache2-module

That was the basic installation process. Now we will move on to the account specific modifications that are required to get this to work with MediaTemple. Pay attention to the text don't just copy and paste there will be lines you need to modify. Pay attention to anything that say yourdomain.com. You need to replace this with your actual domain.

1. First things first backup your apache config file. cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.backup
2. You may need to edit these paths depending on what the current version of passenger is. We will now use the unix built in vi editor to edit our config file. Do this by running vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf then we scroll down to the section that has all the LoadModules commands. Go to the last space and press i to enter insert mode. Add the following to your file.
   LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8.15/gems/passenger-3.0.11/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8.15/gems/passenger-3.0.11
   PassengerRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby
   now just press escape to exit insert mode. Type :w and press enter then type :q and enter. You should be back at the console prompt.
3. Apache is now setup correctly. Next we will create a nifty little file that MT uses for VirtualHosts. This is where things get different since normally you would put this info in the apache config. Create a new file by typing the following vi /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/conf/vhost.conf then press i to enter insert mode. Copy and paste the following text. ServerName yourdomain.com
   ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/rails/yourappname/public
   <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/rails/yourappname/public">
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
   </Directory>
   RailsBaseURI / then press escape to exit insert mode. Then type :w and enter then :q and enter. Your back at the command line.
4. Let create our rails directory now so we can setup our app. cd /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com then mkdir rails the cd rails
5. Now we can create our rails application by typing rails yourappname
6. Your rails app will be created now we have to give your user account that you use on MT permission by typing chown -R yourusername:psaserv yourappname
7. Almost done, let's move our httpdocs directory before we create a link. mv /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs.old
8. Now we can create a link redirecting visitors to our rails app instead of httpdocs. ln -s /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/rails/yourappname/public /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs
9. Run this command to update the server to let it know about our VHost file we created earlier /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a
10. Restart apache service httpd restart
11. Your done! You can upload changed files to your website at that rails/yourappname directory. Hope that helps anyone stuck.

Thanks for reading hope it was helpful.