Trying to track down why a WordPress update won’t install can be frustrating. However, one of the first things you should check in these cases is has the domain exceeded the amount of disk space allotted to it. If the domain is over the disk space threshold, updates to plugins, themes, and core WordPress files…

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One of the best things about having a website is actually being able to create an income from creating articles, sharing information, and giving your opinion about things. While ads, in the form of banners, text ads and pop ups, can create a good income, they can also be annoying if someone is actually trying…

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I have domains, and specifically WordPress sites, on several different servers. Most of the time when I update plugins, its a simple click and the plugin updates automatically. However, on some domains the update process halts to ask for FTP server information including the server name, login username, and password. I have to type this…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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