Mar 4

Installing wordpress using SSH

By Head Lounger • March 4th, 2010 • Web Servers, Word Press Tags: , , Most of my clients are on a WordPress platform. It is much easier to install new wordpresses through SSH, then through the traditional Cpanel/plesk and ftp. Here is how you install WordPress using SSH. Step1: Login to your server via SSH. (I like using puTTY for this.)

Your will need your: ip: user: pass:

Step2: Navigate to your current directory on...
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Feb 26

Enable Soap with PHP5 On Media Temple (dv)

By Head Lounger • February 26th, 2010 • Web Servers Tags: , , So here we go again with another Media Temple Update. I currently moved my development server to Media Temple (dv). Everything so far has been pretty smooth. I had a Magento Cart to set up and needed SOAP enabled. Low and behold, Soap was not enabled on the server.

Note: If you are uncertain if your server has SOAP...

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Feb 6

Wordpress iframe Redirect Hack!

By Head Lounger • February 6th, 2010 • Word Press Tags: , , , I was just reading up on a new hack going around for WordPress. Sure enough a day later I find this on my site. It is a nasty little script that will redirect the visitor to another site. The script gets embedded on the Header.php file of your wordpress theme, right after the </head> tag and right before the <body> tag. I have the...
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Dec 11

My Favorite Wordpress Plugins

By Head Lounger • December 11th, 2009 • Word Press Tags: I don't know how many of these posts I have read, but in the spirit of spamming the internet, here is my list of my all time favorite WordPress plug-ins. When picking a plug-in, I keep in mind that I will not be making the updates, but my clients will be. So I try to pick plug-ins that are easy...
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Oct 17

Magento Get Review URL

By Head Lounger • October 17th, 2009 • Magento Tags: , , My latest project is a Magento Shopping cart. Alot of this theme needed some custom features added, not in the code core already. The first of this was adding the Review Link outside of the summary review template. This used to be done by using the reviews helper. In the latest version of Magento, this no longer exists.  After digging...
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