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I had been using the default page templates on a development installation of WordPress which is a direct copy of another WordPress installation. During the process of editing some pages I decided I wanted to try a couple different types of page templates. The templates were exact copies of the default page view but with…
I have been using the WP-Forum WordPress plugin for along time now and even though I am moving away from using it I do still think its a great plugin. There are two reasons I am getting away from it which include the fact that it does not validate using the W3C Markup Validation Service…
Tonight we are launching a new portiong of Question-Defense.com called Engage. This new section allows anyone to write questions and allows the community to respond to those questions. Now people can become more involved and more questions will be answered because the possibilities of who can respond are endless.
I ran in to the weirdest error today. “sudo: unable to resolve host”. I got this error even running as root which was the really weird part. I was especially confused because I have been running Linux as my main OS for the better part of 10 years and have never run into this issue.…
I ran into following error when clicking Build > Build and Go after you open your .xcodeproj file in XCode. I was attempting to download and run my iPhone app on my iPhone device (not the simulator).
Earlier today I was looking around Google’s Webmaster Tools site which allows you to add various web sites and analyze data obtained via the Googlebot search engine spider. If you are not familiar with the Google Webmaster Tool site then click here to explore all of the data that is available to you for each…
I received the below error when attempting to install the memprof gem on a CentOS Linux server. The errors pointed out below could occur when attempting to install other packages as well though. Below I display a summary of the error output, the entire error output, and information on what to install to resolve the…
During some testing earlier a gem we were using required that the Ruby binaries on the server to be unstripped or not stripped. I wanted to provide information relating to finding out if your Ruby binaries were stripped or not stripped including what the output of each will look like. Below is a command you can use to find…
Previously I wrote an article that detailed modifying the WordPress Most Commented plugin to display the most commented WordPress posts via the WP admin site. If you need more information on creating admin plugins or just wanted to glance over the article related to this one you can read it by clicking here. Something I…