Articles tagged with: script
Code Snippets, Drupal, Internet, PHP, Programming, Webmaster »
Some of you may know the newsletter module simplenews for drupal. If you’ve ever tried it, I am sure you soon realized, it’s a mess. The template functionality is too complicated and poor, emails are send via cron, you have no statistics and only poor ones with other extending modules…
Because of that, I think many people will change the newsletter system and maybe outsource it, so that you have to export your existing simplenews subcribers with username and some more data, than just the email address. Unfortunately there is no …
Internet, PHP, SEO, Webmaster »
You need to do a 301 or 302 redirect, but have no access to the server configuration files or the .htaccess file? Unfortunately not all hosters allow you to edit the .htaccess file, where you could easily set a redirect via the line:
Redirect /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html [R=301,L]
I recently had exactly that problem, but PHP has some nice function, that helped me out: header(). The function allows you to send a raw HTTP header to the client browser. A 301 or 302 redirect is stored in the header section and so we can …
PHP, Programming »
For my work I had to make several wordpress installations with the same basic plugins and themes over and over again. Maybe you know that pain in the ass, but I got sick of downloading and extracting all the stuff manually, so I decided to write some handy script to do the job for me.
Within the script you can extend the list of plugins and themes to be downloaded, to fit your custom purposes.
Important: If new versions of plugins are available you have to edit the URLs in the array! …
SEO »
If you run a website it’s essential for you to know about the actual trends on the web, not only to optimize your keywords, but to know what to write about at all. The equation is easy: What people search for is what brings you visitors and visitors are money!
But how to know what’s trendy on the web, if you are not Google yourself?
Fortunately, Google developed Google Trends and a feed with hourly updated hot trends, where you can easily access the actual trends on the web, but who wants to …
Internet, Linux »
Noticed problems with your pidgin, trying to log into your ICQ account?
Unfortunately there are some vast changes in the ICQ protocol and pidgin versions less than 2.5.5 don’t support that any more.
Who thinks, no problem, I run an update, will see that the repositories have no packages for him and it depends of the distribution how fast they will be available.
Pidgin itself tells you to go to the official homepage and download the new version, but if you run linux, you’ll only find the source. Okay, three options:
Wait for the …

