Archive | March, 2009

Editing an encoded WordPress footer

28. March 2009

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 Did you ever download a theme you really wanted to use for your business, but you found the theme’s footer contained a link to, say, a site promoting “Triple XXX Rated Adult Toys”.  And when you went to edit the link out of the footer, all you could see was a string of encoded characters? Searching [...]

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Manual Mu Sign UP

10. March 2009

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If you build a Mu Community, and opt for open sign-ups, you will soon encounter spam sign-ups.  Usually, the newly created spam blog will be a first name followed by a short series of numbers.  My first was “janelle4751″ if I remember correctly.   And the email domain will be something like “buyviagra.com”. The problem is, spammers have [...]

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Installing Donncha’s Domain Mapping Plugin for MU

9. March 2009

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WordPress MU (Mutiple User) allows unlimited, separate, individual blogs to exist on one installation, in one hosting acount. And each individual blog can have a unique domain name with the help of Donncha’s Domain Mapping plugin. The installation of the plugin requires a few additional steps.  Here’s how to do it. 1.. Download the WordPress Mu domain mapping [...]

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Domain Mapping in MU

5. March 2009

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I’m sharing my rather cryptic notes here, without explanation or illustrations since I need it save it somewhere before I forget ……  Will add explanations later.  Install Donncha’s Domain Mapping Plugin Register domain name for the individual blog 1.  Get IP Address.  Start -> Run -> cmd -> ping http://main mu site 2.  At GoDaddy, go to [...]

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engenu Epiphany #2: A hierarchy of Folders becomes a hierachy of Pages becomes a functional web site

4. March 2009

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I drafted this article a few days ago, before Greg posted his video demo of engenu .  Coincidentally, I think my post here serves as a pretty good introduction to the engenu functions that are covered in the video. Greg described engenu’s functionality here.  (About two thirds of the way down in the post, below the photos.) And once you [...]

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engenu Epiphany #1

3. March 2009

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When I saw this a few days ago on BHB, I was not sure I could come up with anything “helpful”. Like most folks, when I first looked at engenu last year, I just didn’t “get” it.  In fact, I didn’t “get”  it until just yesterday when I decided to take on this little challenge. Understanding the power [...]

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