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Handy tools for manipulating text

February 20, 2020March 7, 2018 by Bill Forsyth III

If you need to manipulate text, Text Mechanic™ – Text Manipulation Tools has a boatload of tools to use, including: Add Prefix/Suffix into Line Add/Remove Line Breaks Count Characters, Words, Lines Delimited Column Extractor Find and Replace Text Line Combination Generator Remove Duplicate Lines Remove Empty Lines Remove Extra Spaces We even used Text Mechanic™ … Read more

SPF Checker

May 11, 2023July 14, 2017 by Bill Forsyth III

Update 5/11/2023: DMARC analyzer has shut down their SPF lookup tool. Here’s another that will count the lookups: DMARCly. dmarc analyzer is, hands down, our favorite SPF checker. Not only does it validate the domain’s SPF record, it expands out all of the calls, AND tells you the count of the DNS lookups. One of … Read more

WordPress Database Search and Replace

December 17, 2020April 2, 2016 by Bill Forsyth III

If you ever need to make changes to your database, but are afraid to mess with data stored in serialized arrays. Interconnect/IT’s Database Search and Replace Script in PHP is the tool for you. It’s an extremely powerful tool that will make a snap of performing search and replace actions on your WordPress databases. Be … Read more

Install WordPress via SSH

February 20, 2020February 20, 2015 by Bill Forsyth III

If you have a WordPress website that is damaged, infected, or just won’t update, you may need to reinstall WordPress to get things kickstarted. Sometimes a site may be so out of whack that you can update/replace from the WordPress dashboard. If that’s the case, use this handy script to pull the latest version from … Read more

How does your WordPress server stack up?

May 10, 2020February 15, 2013 by Bill Forsyth III

Just found an extremely handy tool. We are assisting a new client and their WordPress install just seemed sluggish. We weren’t sure if we were imagining things or just being impatient. As we like to say: “There’s a plugin for that”, so after searching we found a plugin simply and aptly titled “Benchmark” by Mark … Read more

Use visual editor for widgets!

December 14, 2012 by Bill Forsyth III

One of our few disappointments with WordPress is that the Text Widget is pure HTML. That makes it really hard to turn over any sidebar text for the end users to manage. Here’s a plugin to make that worry go away: Black Studio TinyMCE Widget. This plugin simply creates a widget called “Black Studio TinyMCE” … Read more

A Powerful Point about SOPA and PIPA

January 18, 2012 by Bill Forsyth III

You hear everybody talking about the dangers of SOPA and PIPA, but Wikipedia has taken it a step further and gives us all a vivid example of what the internet could look like if SOPA and PIPA are enacted. Wikipedia has shut down the english language encyclopedia for a 24 hour period. I never realized … Read more

Handy Plugin – Proper Network Activation

November 18, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

Ever had a plugin that worked wonderfully in “single site” WordPress, but when switching to multi-user mode (WPMU), it doesn’t work on any other site than the initial site? Here’s why. And even better “there’s a plugin for that!” This handy plugin will make some of those stubborn plugins work beautifully under WPMU. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/proper-network-activation/ From … Read more

Alternative to EventBrite?

November 4, 2011November 2, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

Stumbled across an interesting possible alternative to EventBrite. It’s called “Event Expresso“, and it looks like it can be a completely self-hosted equivalent to EventBrite. In some ways, it may be more trouble than it is worth, but if you run a number of paid events through EventBrite, it will definitely be cheaper to buy and host your own version of Event Expresso, rather than paying EventBrite’s transaction fees.