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WordPress “comments” in .htaccess file

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:55 -0500

I didn't realize I needed the WordPress "comments" in the .htaccess file. I just learned the hard way as a site went down, I checked the .htaccess file (one of the first places I look for a 500 error) and it looked like this: PLAIN TEXT CODE: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [...]

There was a server move and I can’t send mail (or it’s bouncing)

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:44:49 -0500

A handful of you are saying your having trouble sending out mail, it's bouncing back, or both. I just submitted a ticket to the host to get some more help and I'll let you know what they say. The long and short of it, however, is that although there are some tricks and settings [...]

Embedding a Flash (FLV) file outside of the WordPress loop

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:43:40 -0500

As usual, you take a break from a challenge and when you come back with a fresh perspective, you figure it out. After hours of trying to embed a Flash file (FLV) into the sidebar of a WordPress site, I found Jeroen Wijering's FLV Set Up Wizard. It's not up just yet, but that [...]

Using you@yourdomain.com in Yahoo

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:03:58 -0500

You can use your Yahoo (or Gmail etc.) account to get your you@yourdomain.com email. This saves you the hassle of POP and SMTP settings, figuring out how to send email from your hotel room or a wireless Internet cafe, and gives you a solid email program and reliable service. What's not to like? Here's [...]

Cartfly

Bradley Charbonneau — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:19:53 -0500

Cartfly looks like an interesting addition to the e-commerce world. Seems pretty easy to embed in other sites.

Silicon Valley Auto Dealers Association

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:52:19 -0500

The Silicon Valley Auto Dealers Association needed a clean looking site to list their auto dealers, share industry news, and promote the benefits of membership.

San Francisco Softball

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:14:58 -0500

With the help of some banner WordPress plugins, SF Softball has a site they can love, use, and update.

Business Capital

Bradley Charbonneau — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:02:08 -0500

Business Capital (bizcap.com) needed a site re-do to organize their reports, services, and events. They needed some SEO help, some re-design help, and some re-organization. We teamed up and delivered the goods.

Navigo

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:33:41 -0500

Business Capital has a nice horizontal menu with drop-downs. Most of them are just (parent) pages with children and then grandchildren. Fine, good, works fine. But either it was a glitch or just too late at night, but when on a sibling page, the drop-downs for that parent no longer dropped down. Hmm. Tried [...]

Which video site is best to embed into WordPress?

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:24:12 -0500

I use screencasts (audio/video recordings of screen action) for tutorials for a variety of computer help and I'm testing out which video service works best. I'm looking for good quality video and audio, I'd like the service to not resize my video too much (or not at all), I'd like it to stream so [...]

WordPress Tutorial: Uploading PDFs

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:50:33 -0500

Below is a screencast showing how to upload, link, name, and insert PDFs (or any file other than images) into a WordPress post/page.

Mischa Photography

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:07:16 -0600

Mischa Purcell wanted a blog to add to his photography site. He wanted it to seamlessly live together with his main photography site, but use a system that would allow him easy updates using a web-based content management system.

Mari’s Catering

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:30:19 -0600

Mari Takahashi needed to update the events and catering information on her catering site (marisfood.com). She also had events at her restaurant that she wanted to spotlight in her catering business so she wanted to be sure to be able to add links and news as it came in.

Making Lemonade

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:43:59 -0600

Zander Sprague needed an additional site for his new book, "Making Lemonade, Choosing a Positive Pathway After The Loss Of a Sibling." He wanted to be able to sell the book and also allow comments, have a mailing list sign-up, and update the content himself.

Sozai Restaurant and Sake Lounge

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:13:43 -0600

Mari Takahashi needed a new site to showcase her beautiful Japanese food. She wanted to be able to update menu items, display specials, and of course have photos of the dee-lish dishes.

Inner Focus Coaching

Bradley Charbonneau — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:21:21 -0600

Timo Navsky needed a website for her coaching practice, Inner Focus Coaching. She often gets glorious reviews and she wanted a way to update those herself. Done.

Ajax Post Save

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:27:18 -0600

Tired of waiting for "Save and Continue Editing" to save and then, well, continue? Ajax Post Save saves the contents of your WordPress post using Ajax so it's zippy, no page reloading, and you can view your site for updates (in another tab/window) almost immediately. A huge time-saver when doing nit-picky edits on a [...]

Sandoval for Judge

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:46:36 -0600

Gerardo Sandoval needed a site to announce his campaign for San Francisco Superior Court Judge. He wanted a site that was clean, colorful, but professional that could show who he was and what he was about.

CSS Cheat Sheet

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:45:23 -0600

Here's a quick reference guide to CSS tricks and terms. From floats to divs and padding and margins to overflow and display.

MLH Training

Bradley Charbonneau — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:41:14 -0600

MLH Training had a site they liked with content they liked, but they just couldn't update that content very easily. Now they have a site they like with content they like and they can update it easily.

Diane LeBow

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:49:56 -0600

Diane LeBow (dianelebow.com) is a writer, photographer, and world traveler who needed a site that could keep up with her.

Andreas Schwerte

Bradley Charbonneau — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:08:17 -0600

Andreas Schwerte was getting lots of traffic to the glowing testimonials on his Yelp page, but then there was nowhere further to go. The time was ripe for a website.

Windom International

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:35:26 -0600

Gillian Khoo liked the look of her site, but couldn't edit it. Now she has a site that looks as she likes it and she can edit.

Leslie Hom

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:13:27 -0600

Leslie Hom (lesliehom.com) wanted to keep the look and feel of her existing site, but be able to edit the content.

Hover-over pop-up text, links, and anchors

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:32:02 -0600

A client wanted a glossary on her site so that keywords would link to more description of those words. She wanted some "bubble" hover over/pop-up text and/or a link to a full definition at a glossary page.

Lone Mørch

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:47:49 -0600

Lone Mørch (lonemorch.com) needed a site for her writing that wasn't too much like--but not too far from either--her Lolo's Boudoir (lolosboudoir.com) photography site.

Peace Through Fiction

Bradley Charbonneau — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:40:52 -0600

Nicole Hunter needed a new site for her new fiction and non-fiction books.

Showing CSS to IE only (The Underscore Hack)

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:50:51 -0600

When IE just won't do what you want it to do (and Firefox is happily perfect as usual), here's " The Underscore Hack."

Image Captions

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:38:08 -0600

I often get requests for the ability to add image captions to images. Technically, it's a bit of a pain, so I usually recommend to just put some text under the photo or next to it. Better yet, use a photo gallery (e.g. NextGen). I just ran across the Image Caption Easy plugin [...]

alinks

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:40:25 -0600

A WordPress plugin that automatically creates links for your site based on keywords you define.

Novato Human Needs Center

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:46:15 -0600

The Novato Human Needs Center (nhnc.org) can now update news on their site without the aid of a web designer, but just by logging in and pasting and saving text.

One Monkey Books

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:13:54 -0600

Alan Venable's One Monkey Books (onemonkeybooks.com) needed an online presence that he could easily update himself.

Moving Email

Bradley Charbonneau — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:19:38 -0600

If you're changing hosts and you use you@yourdomain.com, it can be difficult or impossible to transfer old email (sent items, inbox, etc.) and your address book. If you don't care about that old mail or address book, great, no worries. If you would like to try to keep some of that, here are a [...]