Tutorials
Modifiers in regular expression patterns
We all like regex patterns, because it’s a great way to select, filter or replace strings, numbers or complete code blocks. How about PCRE modifiers, do you use them very often? A few weeks ago I need to use one because I get in trouble with line breaks in some string, I needed to select [...]
Count clicks the right way!
If you own a link list or directory where the listings are ranked (on some page) on the number of outgoing hits, you’re possible victim of click fraud. There are not only people clicking their own listings many times, ther eare also click bots (remote scripts) which drive the click count “into the sky” in [...]
Upload images for usage in TinyMCE
TinyMCE is a great online WYSIWYG editor which is used for a lot of projects, for example this Wordpress blog application (the content backend). I use TinyMCE for custom projects too. TinyMCE is free, generates good HTML code and the interface is easy to learn even for non-webmaster.
The project is open source and the developer [...]
Create custom backups from your website using cURL
These days I needed a script to backup only a part of a customers website using a CRON. Most of the control panels I know allow only a complete website backup and this is not what I needed. While plaaning the script, I thought about a solution for webmaster without full SSH access to their [...]
Optimizing your Wordpress Blog for Google: Part 2
This is part 2 in our series on how to optimize your Wordpress blog for Google. In our earlier post we discussed how to avoid the duplicate content penalty when blogging with the Wordpress blogging software; today, we are going to share how to optimize your Wordpress blog for search engine friendliness especially [...]
