How to Deploy a Cloud Webserver in 5 minutes - LAMP

This is a fairly simple tutorial geared towards the novice webmaster. The tutorial shows how to deploy a cloud based webserver using Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP (LAMP). The total install time is about 5 minutes.

How to know if your website is well organized or not

Go to any webmastering forum, or question and answer site and inevitable you will find questions about website design. “Can you please look at my site and tell me if you like it…”

That’s a good question, and you should have as many people looking at your site, but it really won’t solve any problems with your site. You might get suggestions to fix little things, or maybe even a full reorganization. The problem is the critiques are coming from non-customers.

How to Use Wordpress Functions Outside the Theme Folder

Wordpress has some really good functions and classes that help developing a website quickly. Sometimes you want to make a webpage that is outside your wordpress theme but still use classes like the database class ($wpdb). It is very simple. All you have to do is inlcude the wp-config.php file located in your website root folder into any webpage that you want to access wordpress functions.

How to Set Up WPMU on a Shared Host Like GoDaddy.com

This tutorial will guide you through setting up WPMU on a shared host like godaddy.com. After you set this up properly, you will be able to run unlimited websites on your host, each with a different domain name and website theme. This will save you money because you can use the cheapest hosting, which usually does not allow for parking domains into separate folders. It also allows you to create a large community just like Wordpress.com where you control all the plugins and themes.

How to Make a Wordpress Category Page Without Showing the Category Children

I recently ran into a problem with the way Wordpress handles categories and subcategories. My wife wanted to add a new section to her real estate website. Her brokerage gave her a large collection of real estate buying guides. The new articles all belonged to categories already, and she already had a section for buying guides.

Wordpress Plugin, Next Question - lets you add teasers to the end of blog posts

I made this plugin becuase many posts I write will have follow-up posts. For example, if you are blogging about how to lose weight, you might write a series of blog posts. In each blog post you can add a teaser that tells the reader what is coming in the next blog post and provides [...]

How to Make a Better Wordpress Permalink for SEO - Remove the dates

Here is a quick and easy way to make you Wordpress permalinks better. With this solution you will remove the date that is normally in between the site domain name and the posts. You should do this because frankly the date means nothing. It is put there so that if you have 2 posts with the same name, wordpress won’t get confused. Your website archive will still work and all posts will still be searchable by date.

Setting up the permalink is the first thing I do when setting up a website with a SILO structure. A SILO website is built around keyword themes. Your website will have different silo’s for each keyword and they do not cross reference each other.

Twitter Spy - Real Time News Plugin For Wordpress

Real time news is all the rage. Tweets coming from Twitter are being used to drive social movements, advertise services, and connect people instantly. What if you could move those conversations to your website and have them update in real time?

I made Twitter Spy to do just that. Deliver any type of message feed from Twitter to your Wordpress blog, in real time.

RSSCloud VS. Twitter, and the winner is...

Rsscloud in a blow out. Granted Twitter did pioneer the “real time”, but the hype that got them to the top is really starting to annoy people. Especially with all the spam. I also think that while 140 is useful for mobile communications, it is just a gimmick and really does make you more stupid.

Twitter had a rough month. They were under heavy attacks from hackers and spammers. Facebook partners with friendfeed, and now Wordpress.com turned on the cloud. This spells disaster for Twitter