Bill Forsyth III How do you pick a good domain name? Sadly, many of the good domain names are long gone. So keep this thought in mind: Domain names ending with “.com” are still the highest “value” for your online identity. Be warned, if you settled on a “.net”, “.biz”, “.us”, or any of the other dozen top … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing like trying to get some images ready for a social media site and not remembering what size it’s supposed to be (this week). Now, in one handy location, A complete list of every social (important) network’s image dimensions! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16zR402-MriVnvXcPk-1JpOUwwfAJvYGF16VBpNlkVH0/edit#gid=476246499
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
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
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