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WordPress Plugin – SSR Safe Search and Replace Database Script 12 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
Find and replace any data within a WordPress database. This script handles serialized data so is perfect for moving sites to new domains (a job which usually ends with a site having half a theme and m...
Free installation with Virgin Media and £50 for me! 12 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
Every home needs a good Internet connection and I chose Virgin Media. The traditional copper phone lines feeding my new home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire are rubbish so lightning speed fibre optic cab...
Announcing the JournalXtra Knowledge Base 12 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
Way back when JournalXtra first popped into existence as a blog, we planned to write FAQs to accompany every post. An early post and complimentary FAQ showing this idea in action can be seen here (pos...
Sooooo Glad we Changed Hosts 2 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
We moved to Namecheap from Hostgator a month ago. We moved because the ‘new’ servers provided by HG had been running very slowly and were causing our websites to go off-line. Not good for business. No...
Magento Configurable Product ‘Out of Stock’ Bug 24 Jul 2013 | 06:03 am
If you ever find a Magento shopping cart is erroneously showing ‘in stock’ items as being ‘out of stock’ and you have ‘Manage Stock‘ set to ‘yes‘ under System > Configuration > Catalog > Inventory the...
WordPress Easy Fancybox Shortcodes Plugin 21 Jul 2013 | 09:38 pm
Wrote this months back but guess it’s time to publish it. Easy FancyBox is a WordPress plugin that integrates the FancyBox lightbox script into WordPress. The plugin uses lots and lots HTML in pages t...
Q: How Should a Blog Post be Written? 13 Jul 2013 | 05:59 pm
A: However you want to write it. It’s your blog post. I’m asked this question by most learners during WordPress orientation sessions. There is no right or wrong way. Just write. Forget the SEO element...
DoubleClick Timestamper Plugin for WordPress 12 Jul 2013 | 01:36 am
DoubleClick requires the links provided to affiliates to include the Unix Epoch timestamp in the ord=1373580720 query string. Question is, how do you automatically add the cachebuster timestamp to eve...
We’re Back! We’re Happy! We’ve Escaped the Hostgator Croc!!! 11 Jul 2013 | 01:12 am
For the past week JournalXtra has been slower than sloth on cannabis. Hostgator moved us to one of its ‘upgraded’ servers and we hit a go-dead-slow glue trap from that point until just now when we com...
We Apologise for the slow load time… Hostgator is fucked up 5 Jul 2013 | 07:06 am
We are experiencing a few faults with our host. For the unaware, Hostgator is migrating its customers to new ‘upgraded’ servers with SSD drives for database storage. Whoopee doo!!! What a fuck up the ...
