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Posts under ‘Code-Snippets’
How to improve Wordpress widget SEO in 2 edits or less
How do you quickly change the default
tags to
on widget sidebar titles without hacking into the core WordPress engine? Glad you asked, as below I’m going to explain techniques I used at blogJordan.com that demonstrate how find what needs to be edited in your current theme, and them some approaches in how to make the edits – including a global search and replace for the brave.
find-a-bot.sh – a nice little script to ID bots bugging your website site
Already demonstrating earlier this week how to block spambots and rogue spiders. Today I’m completing the lesson with a nice little bash script sample that can help you identify some of these non-browser ‘candidates’ by parsing your access logs and placing the results in an easy-to-read text file.
ip2Country.pl – A fast little script to bulk id IPs by country
Yes, I know, all cool programmers use Python these days – but to this old-school programmer, PERL is to my antiquated PC what GWBasic was to first computer at work back in 1983. That is a nice little tool to get things done, like identify a list of IP addresses by country – fast.
Presenting the WordPress Plugin – ObamMath
As a card-carrying member of the vast math conspiracy, and in light of Obama’s statement made in Beaverton Oregon last week that has been all but ignored by old media – I have decided to have some geeky-fun of my own by providing the blogosphere the tools required to accurately quote, report and interpret quotes such as the one made …
How I fixed my Windows XP Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} with Knoppix Linux
Below are steps describing how I used Knoppix Linux to fix the dreaded Windows XP ‘Error Message: Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization System Process…’ failure.
5 to ways permanently redirect an old church domain name to a new domain name
It is no sin for a church to change their domain name. However, it is an unspeakable Internet offense if you do not provide visitors – and search engines – with a quick, simple and painless redirect from the old domain to the new. Unfortunately not all church webmasters know even 1 way to avoid said sin, let alone 5; that is until now:
Cleaning-up the BibleGateway SOAP example
On the page entitled ‘How to display the Verse of the Day on your Web site,’ the good folks at the BibleGateway describe how to leverage the NuSOAP toolkit to consume the verse of the day SOAP-based web service using PHP. Unfortunately, their demo code is a bit buggy and when fixed, doesn’t render a [...]
Hyperlink Bible References using Scripturizer 1.3
After almost a year of people emailing me and leaving comments, I’ve finally made the time to update my Scripturizer Perl Module. The changes aren’t big, but they provide dramatic relief to a series of annoyances that have encumbered some of you from adding more Scripture references to your blogs, church websites and other electronically [...]
Drive yourself nuts with .NET
One of my favorite geek blogs is KeithDevens.com. An accomplished coder, he provides several useful insights on the things that I face both in my day job, and when I’m coding-up a plug-in or such for my favorite church web site. Last week, Keith offered a link to a site that offered an extensive [...]
Scripturizer – core engine
All week I’ve been leading you on, telling you that I’d give you some code that would encode your plain text with hyperlinks to the online Bible of your choosing. After some throwing some raw meat out into the comp.lang.perl.misc usenet group, I received fillet-mignon snippet from Jeff ‘japhy’ Pinyan that gave me [...]
