Web Administration

By Webologist • September 24th, 2009

Do any other Wordpress users think that the All in One SEO Pack is updated too often? It is an excellent plugin that enhances the CMS really well, but I seem to be forever installing a new version. Why? Maybe I should ask the chaps over at Semper Fi Web Design.

Just spotted on a couple of blogs that I did an automatic update on that the Membership was set to “Anyone can register”. Luckily the default lever was subscriber.  There appears to be a cheeky bot out that signing up in the hope of finding a blog where membership is set higher by default. So [...]

I have recently, not through choice, left the banking sector to become a full time, self employed web developer / content manager. I mentioned on Cre8asiteforums.com that I did not have a back up policy in place, and one of Cre8asiteforums’ mods, Iamlost, provided an excellent suggestion / explanation of the various back up options. [...]

Time to upgrade your Wordpress installations. Need help? Let me know. Just FTP a backup to your pc, and backup the MySQL database, then hit the upgrade automatically button in the Wordpress Dashboard and you’re away. Be patient while it ticks along. So, what’s new?
According the the official Wordpress.org blog, these are the highlights:

Certain themes [...]

For one of my sites I use some geotargeting code (plus a database of IP addresses) to show content to people in different countries – mostly for targeting adverts to the USA or UK in my case, but specific content can be shown to any country.
Now, unfortunately, I did not document exactly how I got [...]

I just discovered this neat little trick. I had to close down a subdomain as the CMS I was using was no longer being supported, and I could not afford a coder to fix my problems. So I places this in the .htaccess file in the root of the old subdomain:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.webologist.co.uk/ [L,R=301]
Previously [...]

If you run a website with multiple RSS feeds it an be awkward to manage each feed individually. To make a feed successful, you need to get people to subscribe to the feed. Also, if you set up feed email notifications (there are many third party applications that do this, such as FeedBurner) then it [...]

If you have used the Backup module on Drupal to backup up your site, then inside to the tar.gz file which contains all the web files, there will also be a slq.gz file which is a compressed version of your database.
One way to import this is using phpmyadmin. Simple go to the database you have [...]

My current project is to learn to set up the whole Drupal installation again from scratch It is vital that anyone running a Drupal installation knows how to do this. I am currently learning it now, so will blog my progress.
There are four main reasons why you should know how to restore a Drupal installation:

If [...]

I decided the other day to try out Joomla, as there are a couple of modules which I think may be useful for a couple of my portal sites. However, so far I have found Joomla! to be a little problematic. I have installed Drupal on several sites now, and always with no problems at [...]