Almost every wordpress site has a search box somewhere on the page where you can type in what you are searching for and it will list the different posts and pages that relate to your keywords. The purpose for these search boxes is so visitors can easily find what they want on a site. But…
Tonight I was cleaning up one of my blogs GastricBypassIssues.com. I removed a bunch of spam comments and deleted a few drafts, etc. When I chose to delete the posts permanently from the Trash I was confronted with a horrific issue. All at once, all my posts appeared to be gone. Absolutely vanished before my…
As a Google Adsense publisher from the very beginning in 2003, I’ve learned a lot about Adsense and how to optimize it in my sites to produce the most income possible. One of the more common questions is which Adsense block is the best performing one and how to make it optimized for the best…
I was updating one of my wordpress sites the other day and logged into the admin panel to check things. Something was immediately wrong when I logged in, the entire left sidebar of the admin screen was gone. It had completely disappeared and made it extremely difficult to navigate the admin page since the left…
There are times when I’ve wanted to change the order of posts appearing in WordPress. Normally posts appear in chronological order from newest to oldest in WordPress. Depending on the theme, this is generally the order the posts will stay in no matter what. What if you are writing a review of a product like…
Another common question is how to show just an excerpt of the post on the front page and not the whole post. The excerpt would have a clickable “click here to continue reading” type of line at the end that takes you to the entire post. If you are experienced with PHP, this is a…
One of the more common tasks in WordPress is closing the comments so that people don’t comment on a certain page or post. For instance, you rarely want someone to comment on your Privacy Policy page or About Us page. For the experienced PHP person, you can go into the templates of WordPress and delete…
A few days ago I talked about an error with the TimThumb.php script that did not allow it to display thumbnails properly because of a permissions issue. I just learned today that the entire PHP script has some vulnerabilities. For this reason, if you are using TimThumb.php in WordPress or any other platform like Drupal,…
One of the many WordPress plugins I have used on sites is one called Amazon Feed Plugin. Its a cool plugin that searches Amazon with a keyword and then adds an assortment of products to your webpage automatically. When dealing with a PLR Blog I had an issue where I had updated the Amazon Feed…
I purchased a set of PLR Blogs a few weeks ago that use the PHP script TimThumb.php to resize and display thumbnails for some images on the front page of the blog. The only problem is after installing the WordPress blog and setting everything up, the images from the TimThumb.php script were not displaying. Just…
