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Recovering Lost Jetpack Stats in WordPress 5 Jun 2013 | 09:06 am
Many of you will be familiar with the Jetpack plugin. I use Jetpack’s Stats module, previously the WordPress.com Stats plugin, to record and display this site’s page views. Several Jetpack modules i...
Collapsible Sidebar Lists Plugin for WordPress 22 Apr 2013 | 06:47 am
For some while this site’s been using the collapsible sidebar lists I described in this post. This method requires manually adding PHP and Javascript to the theme’s code. All a bit clunky really. I’v...
Masking a Username in a WordPress Permalink URL 16 Apr 2013 | 12:19 pm
Like countless other WordPress users I’ve been logging into the installation’s back-end using the admin username I created on day one. Having read about the recently publicised botnet that uses the a...
Establishing an SSH Tunnel to Remotely Access a Mac Using AFP and VNC 28 Jan 2013 | 11:46 am
The ability to remotely access a computer on a home network while away from home can often prove very useful. Employing a technique known as SSH (Secure Shell) tunnelling this article describes how t...
Display Post View Count Plugin for WordPress.com Stats 8 May 2012 | 05:31 pm
Some while back I described a method for retrieving and displaying individual post view counts from WordPress.com. Having proved quite popular, I thought I’d wrap this functionality in a simple plugin...
Fixing WordPress ’404 Object Not Found’ Errors on a Mac OS X Local Server Environment 18 Apr 2012 | 01:46 pm
Installing WordPress on a local server environment is fairly straight forward. There are numerous guides to be found on the Internet that’ll walk you through each step. If your local server environme...
Possible Cause of WordPress Jetpack Plugin Pagination Error 9 Apr 2012 | 07:49 pm
Back in July 2011 I noticed a problem with the Jetpack plugin and page navigation. In short, with the Jetpack plugin activated page navigation worked only if I was logged-in as admin. When logged-out ...
Apache Brush for the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress Plugin 6 Apr 2012 | 06:01 pm
Having recently switched from SyntaxHighlighter MT to the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin I was unable to get my custom Apache brush I use for .htaccess and *.conf files to work. While searching for...
WordPress 3.x Page Navigation Error with inFocus Theme: Revisited 22 Mar 2012 | 05:40 pm
These instructions are only applicable for versions of inFocus up to and including v1.6 Shortly after the release of WordPress 3 I offered a solution to broken page navigation conceivably caused by u...
Starting MAMP’s Apache and MySQL Servers at Login 11 Mar 2012 | 03:53 pm
Whether using XAMPP or MAMP to provide a local server environment I prefer to have the respective Apache and MySQL servers start when I login. With XAMPP I use a launch daemon and this works perfectly...
