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Open Firefox’s Page Source In Your Editor

Open Firefox’s Page Source In Your Editor

As a web developer, I’m constantly viewing the source code of websites, mine and yours. I look to fix bugs, improve efficiency, and learn new or interesting techniques. The Page Source viewer in Firefox is right there in the View menu or the shortcut Ctrl+U. I guess I could say […]

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Disable WordPress Drafts & Revisions

Disable WordPress Drafts & Revisions

Today’s computer tech tip involves disabling two features in WordPress: Automatic Drafts & Revisions. They’re intended to be helpful, but they’re not for everyone. I would prefer to see these as options to enable/disable within the Admin Dashboard, but hard-coding the changes will suffice for now. I may have mentioned […]

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Create A Custom Default WordPress Avatar

Create A Custom Default WordPress Avatar

Inside the Discussion Settings area of your WordPress blog, there are seven options for default avatars. The option you select will show up for every user who hasn’t setup a Globally Recognized Avatar for their email address. That is, of course, if you’ve adjusted the Avatar Display option to Show […]

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Don’t Count Administrators In WordPress.com Stats Plugin

Don’t Count Administrators In WordPress.com Stats Plugin

The WordPress.com Stats plugin is great for tracking page-views of your visitors. You can see the top posts and pages, the incoming referral links and search terms, and the outbound links to where your visitors left. As the Administrator, you have two options available for modification. You can choose to: […]

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Hide WordPress Version From Dashboard Footer

Hide WordPress Version From Dashboard Footer

Hiding your WordPress installation version is a good idea. Knowing what version you’re running, a malicious person could take advantage of the vulnerabilities identified within that version and potentially corrupt, delete, or even control your WordPress installation and all your web host files. Why some theme developers decide to advertise […]

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WAMPserver Error: Could Not Execute Menu Item

WAMPserver Error: Could Not Execute Menu Item

While working on my development site the other day, I needed to temporarily disable the alias_module of Apache. When it came time to re-enable it again, I ran into this error: Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action: The service has not been started […]

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