Many PHP websites and web applications, including WordPress, send notification email via PHP mail()–a function which creates server-generated emails. Unfortunately, that’s exactly how spammers do it too. Configure WordPress to use SMTP instead to take the strain off your web server and increase deliverability. A study last year found that 19% of all permission-based email …
Microsoft introduced “Compatibility Mode” to allow really old websites built for Internet Explorer (IE) to display correctly in more standards-compliant versions. Since then, IE users and web designers have had the almost impossible challenge of “backwards compatibility.” Here’s a brief history of how we got stuck with Compatibility Mode.
We never recommend clients use IIS hosting for WordPress since “pretty” permalinks require mod_rewrite, and IIS (common on Windows servers) does not support mod_rewrite. If you are using Apache 2.0.54, on Windows, mod_rewrite may work, provided it is enabled in apache\conf\httpd.conf.
By default, the Junk Email Filter is turned on, and the protection level is set to Low, the setting designed to catch the most obvious spam. You can adjust the sensitivity of the Junk Email Filter. Messages detected by the Junk Email Filter are moved to the Junk E-mail folder.
In his State of the Word 2013 address, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg reveals WordPress is now powering 18.9 per cent of the web, up 2.2 per cent points since last year. That and more data from a survey conducted to help focus future development of the WordPress core.
If you’re using a windows small business server for email (Exchange, probably), you’ve noticed that the default page is pretty boring (see above). Here’s how to change that.
Perhaps the most overlooked program included in the Adobe Creative Suite, Bridge offers some powerful tools for photographers and designers to “batch” process large groups of files using a fairly simple process. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
Here’s an easy way to let your WordPress users login using their email address and password so they don’t have to remember their username. Just add this to your theme’s functions.php file.
The File Transfer Protocol (or FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client using the Client–server model on a computer network. The first FTP client applications were command-line, but thankfully most people now use a more graphical FTP client. Perhaps our favorite is the …
Use BackupBuddy to easily move a WordPress site to another domain or web host. It will export the database and ALL your files, the WordPress core, images, users–everything into an encrypted ZIP file. You just upload the ZIP file to the new host along with a little migration script it gives you (called “importbuddy.php), navigate to your new domain (yournewsite.com/importbuddy.php) and follow the wizard.
If you’ve ever seen something in WordPress like “Warning: require_once(/public_html/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory, don’t let it freak you out.