HOT TOPICS: Website Development
A Sexy, but Evil, Mailchimp Newsletter Popup
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By Matt Dunlap on July 21st, 2010 If you haven't noticed, I like mailchimp for email newsletters but I'm not a big fan of there "evil popup" option. You don't... |
How to install LAMP on a Cloud Server with Bitnami
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By Matt Dunlap on July 20th, 2010 Here is yet another way to install LAMP on a cloud server. This time I will be using a LAMP stack from Bitnami.... |
How to secure a cloud webserver with iptables
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By Matt Dunlap on July 16th, 2010 Probably the most confusing aspect of managing a cloud server is how to keep it secure. Well I have some good news, most... |
Anythingslider Update - How to display pages instead of posts
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By Matt Dunlap on July 13th, 2010 The Anythingslider WordPress plugin displays the most recent posts by default, but what if you want to display pages instead? |
How to move your dedicated server websites to a cloud server
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By Matt Dunlap on July 12th, 2010 Running a business on the Internet is becoming cheaper and cheaper every year. If you're still on an expensive dedicated server, sooner or... |
Cloud servers made easy - Introduction to Webmin
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By Matt Dunlap on July 10th, 2010 Starting a cloud webserver is fast and easy, but once you're up and running, managing a full blown webserver with SSH can be... |
FeedSquares Chrome Extension, Supercharged Feed Reader with HTML5
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By Matt Dunlap on July 5th, 2010 FeedSquares Google Chrome extension fools you into thinking it made with Flash, but it's not, it's HTML5 and it rocks |
Hot Link Protection is a Must When on a Cloud Server
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By Matt Dunlap on June 25th, 2010 I love me some hot links, but I hate hot linkers. Here is a simple solution and tricky way to build traffic by... |
Dynamically creating WordPress Minisites On-The-Fly
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By Matt Dunlap on June 22nd, 2010 This is what I consider the holy grail of WordPress. The ability to use WordPress's multisite functions (WPMU) with top level domains AND... |
How to create a network of top level domains with WordPress 3.0
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By Matt Dunlap on June 18th, 2010 5 comments
Tutorial for turning subdomains managed by a WordPress 3.0 install into top level domains. This is great for making minisites or domaining. |
How to enable WordPress 3.0 to run multiple websites
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By Matt Dunlap on June 17th, 2010 1 comment
WordPress 3.0 has merged single user WordPress and WordPress Multi-user together. I'm still a little scared about the merge because I mostly run... |
Take control of your blog advertising with OpenX Adserver
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By Matt Dunlap on June 15th, 2010 4 comments
Just do the math and you'll quickly realize that managing your own adserver will bring in more money then using affiliate networks. In... |
How to display images only in the WordPress AnythingSlider
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By Matt Dunlap on June 13th, 2010 1 comment
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Jquery Anything Slider Plugin for WordPress Magazine Themes
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By Matt Dunlap on June 12th, 2010 12 comments
There are a lot of content sliders floating around. I recently made this one for my personal website. It's based on the Anything... |
5 Must Bookmark Websites For an HTML5 Introduction
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By Matt Dunlap on June 9th, 2010 3 comments
There is much a buzz about HTML5 but not a lot of real working examples, yet. I've seen some demo sites but they... |
Will Changing my WordPress Permalinks Effect SEO?
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By Matt Dunlap on June 8th, 2010 1 comment
The cool thing about permalinks is that you can change them and all your links in the search engines will still work. The... |
How to get WordPress comments by type outside the loop
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By Matt Dunlap on June 7th, 2010 |
Function for Lazy Loading Jquery Javascript and CSS Files
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By Matt Dunlap on June 7th, 2010 Lazy loading javascript files is a great way to keep your website running fast and ensuring that the javascript files have loading before... |
How to serialize strings with apostrophes using PHP
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By Matt Dunlap on May 17th, 2010 2 comments
If not handled correctly, apostrophes will cause all kinds of problems when coding. Recently, I ran across a problem when trying to... |
Dynamically control Memcached Mysql Statements with PHP
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By Matt Dunlap on May 4th, 2010 I'm relatively new to memcached. I've never had a need for it, but recently I've been doing some pretty intensive Mysql statements that... |
How to add columns to Wordpress tables using filters
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By Matt Dunlap on March 17th, 2010 When you manage WPMU websites, you'll quickly realize many of your subscribers will be spammers. There are tons of plugins that try to... |
How to Deploy a Cloud Webserver in 5 minutes - LAMP
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By Matt Dunlap on January 4th, 2010 6 comments
This is a fairly simple tutorial geared towards the novice webmaster. The tutorial shows how to deploy a cloud based webserver using Linux,... |
How to Use Wordpress Functions Outside the Theme Folder
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By Matt Dunlap on September 30th, 2009 7 comments
Wordpress has some really good functions and classes that help developing a website quickly. Sometimes you want to make a webpage that is... |
Real Time Shared Development with Eclipse
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By Matt Dunlap on September 29th, 2009 Doing a little exploring on the Eclipse website I ran across this video of Real Time Development. The video shows 2 programmers editing... |
How to Set Up WPMU on a Shared Host Like GoDaddy.com
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By Matt Dunlap on September 25th, 2009 9 comments
This tutorial will guide you through setting up WPMU on a shared host like godaddy.com. After you set this up properly, you will... |
How to Make a Wordpress Category Page Without Showing the Category Children
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By Matt Dunlap on September 22nd, 2009 I recently ran into a problem with the way Wordpress handles categories and subcategories. My wife wanted to add a new section to... |
5 Lead Generating Wordpress plugins For Your Business Blog
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By Matt Dunlap on September 15th, 2009 5 comments
Your blog is passive for the most part... but you can make it proactive with email notifications. Just make sure they are opt... |
Wordpress Plugin, Next Question - lets you add teasers to the end of blog posts
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By Matt Dunlap on September 13th, 2009 |
How to Make a Better Wordpress Permalink for SEO - Remove the dates
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By Matt Dunlap on September 9th, 2009 1 comment
Here is a quick and easy way to make you Wordpress permalinks better. With this solution you will remove the date that is... |
