WordPress Development & Plugin Use
Jun 03As many of you are aware, I have been building a rather extensive and large WordPress Website for my family genealogy (http://many-roads.com). As of this writing the site encompasses some 3 GB of space, an average of 120 unique readers per day with approximately 300 page reads, 10,000+ pages, images and documents (for me this is huge). I have posted a series of articles on ManyRoads...
WordPress & GRAMPS…
Apr 19I have posted a “how-to’ article on the Integration of WordPress and GRAMPS systems on another site of mine. If you are interested in following either my genealogical work -or- learn a bit more on how recommend building genealogy websites with WordPress you might find the article...
Block a Country
Nov 21If you are finding that your site is benefiting from countless unwanted, undesired visitors from certain governmental jurisdictions, there is something you can do about it. Actually the solution is quite simple and is explained in excellent detail at Block-a-Country. Rather than fight these undesireables a single IP at a time… follow the instructions on Block-a-Country. It took me...
Tomboy to WordPress (ATOM)
Nov 02If you are a Linux user like I am (Ubuntu is the distro I use), this brief tutorial may be of some help to you. In order to setup Tomboy so it publishes to your WordPress BLOGS via ATOM do the following: Use Synaptic to install the Post note to your blog plugin restart Tomboy if it was running so that the plugin loads go to your WordPress BLOG Open Settings >>Writing and place a check...
Copyright Infringement
Aug 03Of late, it has come to my attention that someone is stealing this site’s (my) content. I guess I should be honored that I am writing something that someone finds useful. On the other hand, it offends my sensibilities that these folks did not have the common courtesy to request the right to reproduce my content — which by the way, I would have granted– or provide a link to...
WordPress Security
Apr 19There are numerous actions a prudent web admin can take to make their site more secure. In an effort to place the key safety precautions you can employ on a WordPress site I have gathered a number of actions from multiple sources and placed them here. Please note that this posting is not original content, rather it is a merged aggregation from the references listed below. Item 1. Always Upgrade...