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Beware of Setting WordPress Pages to Private

As of 3.3.1 (and possibly earlier) when you set a WordPress Page (not Post mind you but Page) to Private, it has the undesirable affect of hiding the page from everyone but the creator of the Page. The preferred way to pull a page off the site temporarily would be to change it’s status back …

Definitive guide to rel="author" and rel="me" on WordPress?

Joost de Valk of Yoast fame, has written the definitive guide to rel=”author” and rel=”me” integration into WordPress. Or should I say it almost is the definitive guide. There are few things here that need to be considered: If you are running his WordPress SEO plugin, you need to be sure that under Indexation | …

What's so big about OSCommerce?

Sure, they have an extremely large 3rd party/open source community behind them but wow, is this software backward in terms of usability and manageability. I’m doing some work on http://www.forcefieldmagnets.com/ and this is like working with WordPress software from 3-5 years ago. Sure as heck doesn’t hold a candle to ASPDNSF. Perhaps I’m just spoiled? …

SQL Files Grown Out of Control?

For merchants running AspDotNetStorefront who aren’t regularly running the Monthly Maintenance routines, you might find yourself in a situation similar to one of our clients where the size of the transaction log for their SQL database had grown large enough that their site was shut down because it couldn’t grow any more. In this case, …