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There are many things about WordPress that make life easy… and a few that are a real pain in the butt.  One of the pains is the login form’s logo and url.  If you are like me, you want to brand your sites and doing so gives the site that extra touch of personalization.  Not to mention, if you are …

I can’t tell you how many times I have written an article, hit publish, then realized that I made some mistakes.  It doesn’t matter how much I proofread a post, it happens all the time.  With that, our readers get these articles delivered to them through my feed.  Wouldn’t it be nice if I could delay the feed a bit, …

As our world becomes more digital and the number of “personal” interactions with other people declines, we rely more on email and texting than phone conversations.  There are a few drawbacks to this and I can bet that you have found yourself on one end or the other.  As our interactions move more to email, we have to realize that …

My Windows woes continue.  This time around, I have been trying to upgrade my Laptop running Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional.  After initiating the upgrade process it would stall at 62% and give no indication as to what would cause the issue.  Well, after a bunch of research and much less hair, I have an answer for you. 

In my efforts to get my company’s demo rooms up and running with the solutions we offer to our customers, I have been faced with numerous Windows errors and issues.  The one I have been faced with today was an error message stating “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.”  However, I am the administrator and I …

If you run your site on WordPress and using it as a content management system, you may have realized that there are categories of posts that you don’t want published on your feed.  There is no easy way to do this through WordPress by default, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t possible to accomplish.  You can eliminate certain categories …

In WordPress, there are two ways to display a summary of a post that I have found so far.  Depending on your scenario you can use either php the_content(‘Read more…’); ?>  or . I usually end up using both depending on the page that is being displayed and simply choose which with a “if, else” statement.  In most scenarios it …

As WordPress becomes more popular in the Web Designer circles (is that possible?), many of the functions we are looking for are simply not integrated by default.  One of the functions I searched for for a long time was a way to filter comments so pingbacks and trackbacks wouldn’t be displayed on my posts or pages.  I personally don’t care …

Nothing ceases to amaze me anymore.  Those of us that have relied on system manufacturers to provide us with clean systems, servers, and components “out of the box” now have a new wrinkle to iron out.  If you have spent any money on a Dell server these days you may want to check your model… and receipt. It seems Dell …

I don’t understand why things just can’t seem to work seamlessly.  Especially when you are talking about Microsoft Products.  You would think that one Microsoft product would work without issue with another, and you would think that you are pretty much guaranteed that this would be the case when the Microsoft Product in question is installed through Windows Update.  Enough …