Archive for June, 2011


Offsite Video – Upgrading Moodle (Using CPanel)

I found this great video that shows you how to update Moodle (a learning management system or LMS). This video shows some tricks I have never seen before, the author uses CPanel to do everything. Amoxil This could perhaps be a lot faster than doing an FTP of hundreds of small files (in other words, […]

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The Easiest Way to Get an RSS Icon on a WordPress Blog

Step 1 – Install/Activate Free Plug-In Install and activate the plug-in: RSS Icon Widget 2.2. Step 2 – Go to Appearance, then Widgets, Drag Widget to Sidebar In your “Appearance/Widgets”, drag the “RSS Icon” to the sidebar. Step 3 – Change size, click “Save” Set the size, I prefer 24×24 or 32×32. Most people are […]

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How to Install and Use Pligg’s “RSS Importer”

“RSS Importer” was dropped in Pligg 1.0.2. The website forum says that it Step 1 – Download For release 1.1.5, I found the most recent install in a link in the “online store” for Pligg. The product “My-RSS” apparently relies on “RSS Importer” to be installed. So the following link worked for me: Download RSS […]

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How to Add a SideBar in Pligg

Pligg is an open source CMS that allows you to create a site similar to Digg. In all my Pligg sites, I wanted to add a side-bar or “side-panel” to contain a small list of links to other of my own websites for SEO optimation (backlinks). It’s fairly painless, you have to edit one file […]

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What CMS’s does Fantastico handle?

Probably the easiest way to install a CMS is by using Fantastico (a tool included in the “CPanel” software that is included with most common LAMP-stack hosting systems). LAMP by the way is Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP (or Python/Perl). Unless looking for a Windows or Java solution, most people who purchase a typical hosting […]

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WordPress – Linking Navigation Menu (Header) to Blogs

For a few years now, WordPress has been more than a blogging tool. By creating “Pages” instead of “Posts”, you can create web pages for your site. On many of my WordPress sites, I have pages as the main content, with links on the navigation menu, but I also have a link to the blogs. […]

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