Macario James's Blogfolio

Jan13

How to Fix a Blank Page After Publishing a Post in WordPress

The problem is, in 90% of the cases, easily fixable in less than 2 minutes. Open your functions.php file, check the closing ?> and see if there is any extra space after it, especially some linebreaks. Delete any space/line breaks, save and upload the file. Try to publish your page. Should work again . If that doesn’t work, change your theme to the default theme and see if you can publish. If you can, what you should do next is go through all of you .php files in the theme’s root directory and look for any extra space BEFORE the opening of the documents. As before, delete all of it and resave. Go page by page. You should have your fix. Peace.

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Dec23

Clean/Remove WordPress Malware

If you were redirected to a page that you didn’t mean to while adding a post or changing some plugins in your WordPress installation, don’t panic, there is a fix. A malware attack can occur if you download and install a theme from a shady website or from one of the million free WordPress Theme sites. Here’s how to fix the problem. You’ll need FTP access to your website. If you don’t know what this is, please contact your Website Administrator. You’ll need to check your .htaccess file, usually located at the root of your WordPress directory. Look for the directory that has the wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes folders. Once you locate the .htaccess file, delete the line(s) that have a RewriteRule to a...

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Lose Your Blackberry (or iPhone) Contacts?

How-to

Dec23

Lose Your Blackberry (or iPhone) Contacts?

We’ve all been there: the Blackberry drops, its battery pops out, and after waiting ten minutes to restart, we realize all of our contacts are gone! We may have all of our texts, but when they’re identified by 10-digit numbers that might as well be random, our lives are in shambles! There is no reason to be worried, I will show you how to prevent this. Well, at least to reverse the problem once it occurs again (and we know it will happen, regardless if we have a Bold, Curve, Torch or, gasp, Pearl). The simplest and quickest way is to use Google Sync. Not only can you backup your BlackBerry contacts, but also the address book on your PC, Mac, Linux box, Symbian, iPhones, etc. Your calendars can be synchronized, too! Since...

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Nov21

Google Chrome Twitter Extension Round-Up

A couple of the current buzzwords these days are app and plugin. I want to turn people’s attention to extension, as in Google’s version of plugins for Chrome, which is, in my opinion, the best browser out. It’s the fastest to start, renders websites the quickest, is consistently updated (behind the scenes, too), and, best of all, doesn’t have to be restarted to install extensions (unlike Firefox, which does for its plugins). There are myriad of extensions out there to make your browsing more efficient by corralling your open tabs; that check performance of web sites and applications; determine the speed and SEO standards of your website; sync bookmarks across all your computers and browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera,...

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Nov13

Did Automatic Core Upgrade Break WordPress?

WordPress is wonderful. Robust and versatile options and flexibility. The Automatic Update feature is quick and usually seamless. But sometimes it breaks. Although not an often occurrence, when it does happen, we tend to freak out. I’ve come across this problem on some hosting providers (such as 1and1 and GoDaddy), but, fortunately, it’s been a pretty easy fix. It’s usually fixed in one simple step, but sometimes two. The first thing to do is to add the line below to your .htaccess file at the root of your WP installation. AddType x-mapp-php5 .php If that doesn’t work, but I doubt it, you can also try deleting the “upgrade” folder in /wp-content. Try updating WordPress automatically again. Once you...

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Oct30

Keyboard Shortcuts for New Twitter Website

So, while on Twitter, I actually stumbled upon the keyboard shortcuts (technically known as accessibility keys). After this discovery, I started testing out each key, but realized it’d be faster if i just Googled the info. Low and behold, it was. Below is a list of some of the the Twitter keyboard commands that can speed up your Tweeting life! (If you noticed the capitalized ‘T’ in Tweet, it’s for good reason: Twitter Policies changed.) Click the image for the full list. f = favorite j = next Tweet k = previous Tweet m = direct message n = new Tweet r = reply t = retweet space = page down . = refresh Tweets and back to top / = search ? = shortcuts menu I hope it helps ...

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Oct30

Protect Your Facebook & Twitter Accounts

Do you want your Facebook or Twitter accounts to be hacked? Didn’t think so. The next time you’re about to hop onto free Wi-fi hotspots offered by Starbucks or Borders, be sure to protect yourself first. And don’t fret, it’s very simple. Unless you’ve been under the proverbial rock the past two weeks, i’m sure you’ve heard about the new tool, FireSheep, which allows anyone who knows how to turn on a computer to hijack your browser sessions, enabling the person to login to your Facebook or Twitter accounts, among others. Most of the damage has been wrecked on these highly popular social networking sites, but in actuality, any website that uses a unsecured connection, is vulnerable. The quick way to...

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