Fix Dreamhost Stats problem in WordPress

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Users who has installed WordPress blog application on Dreamhost may noticed that they can’t access the Dreamhost stats page on their blog (sub)domain.

This is caused by the way WordPress handle URL in its internal system. However you can fix this issue by adding a few lines in your WordPress .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stats|failed_auth\.html)/?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]

Make sure you put the lines before the WordPress rewrite rule. Finally overwrite the .htaccess files on the server and the Dreamhost stats should be back working by now.

You can read the full text of the tutorial in Dreamhost Wiki page.

[tags]dreamhost,hosting,wordpress,htaccess,mod_rewrite,apache[/tags]

How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in WordPress

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Jon Moffet

I got this idea from reading Darren Rowse’s entry, How to Make Your RSS Feeds POP Using Images

The hack will add a nice graphic to accompany your RSS feeds to make it “POP”.

First open the wp-rss2.php file located in the root directory of your WordPress Installation.

Find a line that have something like this.

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss('version'); ?> </generator>
<language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?<
Then add these lines directly below it.
<image>
    <url>http://yourwebsite.com/img/feedpop.png</url>
    <title>Your website name  </title>
    <link>http://yourwebsite.com/</link>
</image>

upload the file back to the webserver, and you shall have an RSS feed with a nice graphic on it.

example : http://blog.fakap.net/rss.xml
 Why dont you use WordPress Plugins

Using excessive plugins may slow down your WordPress blog installation, upgrades tends to be troublesome on plugins-ladden WordPress blog.
[tags]wordpress,blog,feeds,feedvertising,rss,atom,darren rowse[/tags]

WordPress Source Code Syntax Plugin

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Jon Moffet

In order to enhance the user experience of Tipvista blog readers, I’ve installed Dean Lee’s Source Code syntax highlighting.

The plugin is pretty cool for coders and developers who like to share their codes with their readers. Among syntax it support are

Actionscript,Ada,Apache,asm,asp,bash
c,cfm,c++,csharp,css
delphi,div,freebasic,html4,idl
java5,javascript,lisp,lua
mathlab,mysql,nsis
oracle,pascal,perl,php,python
qbasic,ruby,smalltalk,sql
tcl,text,vb,vb.net,xml
and few others syntax

Here’s how the plugin look like in WordPress :

//
//print information about your php installation
//
phpinfo();

Pretty cool eh?

[tags]wordpress,plugins,syntax,code,php,programming[/tags]

Ban IP Address from your website using .htaccess

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Some people has their own reasons for banning certain IP Address from accessing their websites.
Some because they want to single out an individual or certain organisation from browing their websites and some one to protect their website from excessing crawling from bad bots or any other form of bot attacks.

Whatever the reasons are, you can ban IP Address from accessing your websites by using Apache .htaccess file.

What you need to do is create add these lines to your .htaccess file and upload it to your web server directory.

Don’t forget to replace xxx with the IP Address that you want to ban.

order allow,deny deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx allow from all

[tags]htaccess, apache,ban,ip address[/tags]

Get Latest Currency Exchange rate from Foxrate.org : XML-RPC

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Foxrate.org is a website that provide latest currency exchange rate.

The website is easier to use compared to competing services because it automatically detects your home currency base on your ip address. This will save you the trouble of selecting the currency you want to convert each time you visit the website.

The website also provides XML-RPC API endpoint for easy integration into your own applications.

Visit http://foxrate.org now for latest currency exchange rate.

foxrate, currency exchange

[tags]currency, foreign exchange, currency exchange, currency rate,xmlrpc,xml-rpc,webservice, web service[/tags]

Trouble finding your final year project thesis title?

Posted on February 11, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Are you having trouble finding your final year project thesis title? I’ve a nice, cool website that could help you generate a nice well sounding topic for you.
Here’s a sample of the title generated :

An interactive proxy theorem prover embedded in a synchronized concurrent preprocessor
A dynamic parallelizing cache embedded in a high-level concurrent cache
A scalable proxy technology related to an active digital database
A balanced binary system applied to a responsive digital compiler
A collaborative proxy solution for an integrated proxy work cluster

Disclaimer : This thesis generator generates topic for Computer Science candidates only
Generate your own topic at CS Topic Generator

2Checkout does not permit selling Paypal, Clickbank related Items

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Jon Moffet

I don’t know if any of you already know about this, but I recently read in one forum about 2Checkout won’t let a newly registered seller use its service solely because he sells Paypal and Clickbank related e-book.

Here’s the excerpt from the 2CO email taken from the forum :

Hello,

Sorry for the delay. 2CO does not support the service you wish
to provide. There is nothing illegal about it, it is just that 2CO
chooses not to support software that allows clients this type of
information on Paypalâ„¢ and Clickbankâ„¢. I do apologize for this
inconvenience. Please let me know if you wish to use the 2Co account for
something else or I can certainly close and refund the account?

Xxx2CO
Risk Dept.

Sounds like 2Checkout has its own anti-competition policy regarding items related to Paypal and Clickbank. It seems that the product status fell into “2CO’s sole discretion”, as it is not included in the “official” list ofProhibited Products in 2CO site.

btw, the seller did get his money back from 2CO because of that. So you can forget about using 2Checkout service if you’re planning to sell its competitor related items.

[tags]2checkout, 2co, e-commerce, online business, ecommerce, credit card processor, paypal, clickbank[/tags]

Super Value Blog Hosting from Interunix.net

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Interunix introduces a new Super Value Blog Hosting plan targeted for bloggers.
The plan comes with WordPress preinstalled, 500MB of webspace and 15GB monthly data transfer. The Super Value Blog Hosting is hosted on a Linux machine running PHP 5 and MySQL 5 on Apache 1.3.x (mod_sec)

Best of all, the Super Value Blog Hosting plan from Interunix is available at only USD 8/year !
So grab this opportunity now to get your own website with this plan!

Interunix website : http://interunix.net

[tags]blog, webhosting, wordpress, web hosting, blog hosting[/tags]

NoDaddy: Getting a domain from GoDaddy? Think again

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Godaddy has done it again!

I’ve heard this story many times before, it is about GoDaddy goes around suspending domains without adequate prior notice or any warning at all. This is why I’m avoiding GoDaddy.com ever since I read many stories about their business practice.
If you want to know more about why you should avoid Go Daddy, then read No Daddy, setup by Fyodor, author of the infamous Nmap Security Scanner

[tags]nmap,godaddy,nodaddy,fyodor,go daddy, domains, domain name, registrar [/tags]

Put Blog spam to end using Antisplog.net and Splogspot

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Jon Moffet

Splog or Spam Blog is a relatively new form of spam advertising in the blogosphere. These spammers use blogs and syndication feed as a way to to spread their spammy advertising campaign across the internet.

Spam Blogs is by nature is different from email spam, because you can’t not send unsolicited advertising using blog.Thus the motivations for creating spam blogs are different too, but it is likely spam blogs exists because the spammers want to attract web visitors from search engines and by earning money using (contextual) advertising in the process.
Spam blog is an annoyance because they content little to no content, and the content of spam blogs are usually copied directly from another sources like another blog or from article previously published on the internet.

Howto report spam blog?

You can use the AntiSplog and Splogspot service to report spam blog. using http://example.com as example.
Antisplog

http://www.antisplog.net/report.php?blog=http://example.com

Splogspot

- goto http://splogspot.com/pages/submit and use the form to submit the splog url.

Splog pollutes blogosphere, put an end to splogs now.

[tags]blog,blogs,splog,blogosphere,wordpress,splogspot,antisplog[/tags]

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