I have really been digging into WordPress for the last few weeks. I have had more than a few request for custom WordPress themes, but I’ve never really bothered to do it. The top plugin request I get is for an guest blogger header plugin. I had written a little how to using WordPress templates, but a plugin would be much better. So the plan.. I’m going to build the plugin, documenting it as I go....

One of my readers commented on AMPstart, a server software package I had once suggested as an easy way to install Xampp on a thumb drive. It turns out that this software comes with spyware too! So If you need to install XAMPP I would suggest you do it this way –> 4 Steps to Apache with virtual host on Windows

I found this file a few days ago. I’m not sure of it’s originals, but here’s how it works. It uses PHPMailer with a gmail wrapper, so to speak. Here is the code needed: require_once('/phpgmailer/class.phpgmailer.php'); $mail = new PHPGMailer(); $mail->From = 'user@domain.com'; $mail->Username = 'user@domain.com'; $mail->Password = 'password'; $mail->FromName = 'User Name'; $mail->Subject...

Okay so your trying to XAMPP running but it will not start. Here is a quick way to find out why it won’t start. Open the command prmt ad cd to the directory your XAMPP reside. In my case: C:\>l: Then cd to the dir L:\>cd xampplite Now start XAMPP L:\xampplite>xampp_start.exe Hopefully this helps someone. Please contribute below with your comments.

A common question that seems to come up often is; how do I setup virtual host on apache. I’m going to show you how to do this on apache running on windows. It really is very simple. I’m going to show you how you can do this in 5 minutes, and just 4 steps. Before we start you will need to download a fresh copy of XAMPP Lite. Once downloaded, unzip the file. You do not need to install this it will run...

If you just installed XAMPP, and noticed that it Skype is no longer working for you, here’s why; both are server technologies, which use the same port. This port (port 80) is commonly used for web servers. So what’s happening is that Skype & XAMPP are both listening to, and sending data trough port 80. But they were not designed to share that data stream. This is commonly called a port conflict....

I recently wrote an article on installing and using XAMPP on a thumb drive, and this got me thinking. (Oh no you say!) This would be a good way of demonstrating a working site to a client. It would work great if you were there with them to start up the server. But what if you wanted to send it to them.

While developing web sites, I sometimes find myself jumping from PC to PC. Copying each web site’s files and database back and forth it’s to be a pain very quickly. So recently I decided to install XAMPP lite on a thumb drive. This is very easy to achieve, but I will walk you through the steps. The first thing you’ll need to do is download XAMPP lite from XAMPP’S web site. After...

If you’ve recently installed XAMPP and noticed they your machine becomes unstable after a period of time then you’re not alone. Here’s a quick fix to hold you over until XAMPP fixes the problem. The reason your systems crashing is due to a small program called pv.exe. The program’s purpose is to monitor Apache, and mySQL to ensure continuous running. However, this program runs in the...