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11 May 2013

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Getting your profile pic to appear in Google for blog posts (Google+ Authorship)

A step by step showing how to enable Google Authorship, where Googe+ profile pictures appear in search engines for blog posts.

Enabling Google Authorship for blog posts »

07 May 2013

CSS Positioning of image within text block

Positioning a custom image at either the beginning or end of a paragraph of text or heading - either displaying an image right after the last character of a sentence or paragraph, or before the first character

Image positioning within text »

04 May 2013

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Joomla FTP file permission problem with templates & extensions.

A solution to Joomla file permissions when trying to upload, delete or set CHMOD parameters when using FTP for a Joomla 2.5 installation.

Joomla file permission fix »

27 April 2013

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Twitter feed authentication (API 1.1) for search

A tutorial to create a custom Twitter feed using any search phrase or Twitter handle. It authenticates to the new API 1.1 and uses jQuery to create the feed HTML

Custom twitter search »

15 April 2013

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Moving a WordPress site without affecting SEO & Rankings

This guide is for anyone looking to move their Wordpress blog or website from one hosted domain to another, whilst maintaining the URL structure. The post is divided into two parts; the technical aspects of moving a Wordpress site and the SEO steps to minimise loss of visitors and traffic

Moving a Wordpress site & SEO »

13 April 2013

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Missing Gravator profile pic after changing WordPress username

How to restore a missing Gravatar profile picture since renaming an admin username

Restore Gravatar profile pic »

08 April 2013

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Updating Plesk 10 to Plesk 11 on Windows

Upgrading Plesk 10 to Plesk 11 *should* be a relatively straightforward process. These are the steps I followed in order to update Plesk 10 (10.4.4) to Plesk 11 (11.0.9) running on a Windows dedicated server 2008 with hosting providers 1&1 internet.

Update Plesk 10 to Plesk 11 »

06 April 2013

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Enabling mod_rewrite on Windows Apache for URL rewriting

A tutorial demonstrating how to enable mod_rewrite which will allow a website running on a WAMP stack to use a local .htaccess file for URL rewriting.

Activate mod_rewrite on WAMP »

29 March 2013

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Tweet Caching with PHP & JQuery

Part 2 of the custom twitter feed tutorial with authentication. Caching the twitter feed to a local file can speed up loading of tweets and negate Twitters rate limiting.

Twitter feed caching »


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Scheduled Task for PHP scripting in Plesk & Linux

A tutorial for setting up a scheduled task using Plesk 11 on Linux. A couple of steps are involved for the scheduled script; ensuring Access to the server over SSH is specified and using wget utility to run the PHP script.

Scheduling a PHP script from Plesk »