Monthly Archives: August 2008

Sunday Review: Blaze Media Pro

I really haven’t seen a tool that can do as much as this DVD Software says it can. I’ve used free solutions, online solutions which either produce a low quality end-product, or just don’t have the availability of the formats I would like. Aside from the long list of audio and burning formats that it can [...]

Saturday Weekend Security Tip: Remove This Useless Tag

There is a tag in your Wordpress header file that generates it’s version number, every time someone loads the page. A simple view of the source code will reveal that you have Wordpress 2.x. If you’ve chosen not to upgrade because you like 2.3’s interface or have some plugins that will not be compatible, your [...]

Change Any Outbound Links For Better Results

Affiliate links are hard to get clicks on. Rather than giving you the money for referring the potential visitor, they just type the URL in and save that money for themselves (I’m even guilty for that). I however, have found a plugin that allows you to change any URL you wish to a desired name. [...]

Posted in How To | Tagged Plugins, Redirect, Rick Roll | 12 Comments

Trying To Understand The New Plugin: Liz Comment Counter

I saw this new plugin in my blog dashboard this morning called, “Liz Comment Counter“. It’s description is as follows: Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has. Now, I know the author took a while [...]

Posted in Contemplation | Tagged Plugins, Useless | 11 Comments

Create A “Sidenotes” Section On Your Sidebar

Hope you all had a great weekend. This post is dedicated to Teknopsis for asking the question on a post that I did a couple weeks ago (We Want Your Questions). He asked: I want to make a ’sidenotes’ section to my blog, is there a wordpress plugin that does this? Or should I just code it [...]

Posted in How To | 7 Comments

Weekend Wordpress Security Tip: Restrict Your Wp-Admin

Although this security issue may be fixed in newer versions of Wordpress, your truly screwed if your password gets cracked by a hacker. Since Wordpress only requires one to get all the administrative privileges to your blog, it would be best to limit the /wp-admin/ folder to just yourself (by your IP address, see below). [...]

Posted in Web Security | Tagged .htaccess, Web Security | 4 Comments