After a long-hiatus, I once again caught the web-bug and decided to get back to experimenting with my websites. My first project was to migrate my sites from Media Temple over to Amazon AWS. The key reasons for this – Much much better price point. I would be paying about a third or less of […]
Google Authorship – Good or Bad for Search Traffic?
One of the things that I truly enjoy about online interactions is that we are more free from the biases and prejudices that are associated with physical appearance. In the real world, We form first impressions from faces despite warnings not to do so. Moreover, there is considerable agreement in our impressions, which carry significant […]
Setting Up MT ProCDN, W3TC, and WordPress Multisite
Recently, I decided to give Media Temple’s ProCDN system a try. The awesome W3tc caching plugin already supports MT’s ProCDN so it was actually a pretty painless process. The only real issue that I faced was getting the image links for my directory based multisite setup to translate properly on my CDN. Here is how […]
Hosting My WordPress Blog – The Good and The Bad
Recently, I just moved the hosting company for my site. Here, I review the different groups of WordPress hosting options, analyze their pros and cons, and talk about some of my experiences.
Convert HubPages Comments to WordPress Comments
This is a step by step guide on how to use PHP to retrieve your HubPages comments and import them as WordPress comments. There are three key steps involved in this process – Retrieving your HubPages comments from a HTML page. Writing out those comments in the WordPress XML format. Importing the XML file into […]
Move an Existing Blog into WordPress Multi-Site
How I moved my WordPress blog from a single-site to a multi-site setup.
Spry Comment Box Test Page
[How to create a Spry comment box in a static web-page.] [Example Spry comment box static web-page.]