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Opus Dei’s Influence Over Governments

Opus Dei’s Influence Over Governments

Opus Dei pursues the Vatican’s agenda through the presence of its members in secular governments and institutions and through a vast array of academic, medical, and grassroots pursuits. Its constant effort is to increase its presence in civil institutions of power.

Blocking comment spam in WordPress

Blocking comment spam in WordPress

This blog was using two WordPress plugins to block comment spam, Akismet which is about 97% effective, and SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam which requires the commentator to type a code he or she reads from an image.

Today I learned of a WordPress plugin that is supposed to be 100% effective called Spam Free WordPress. It’s said to be better than Akismet not only because it blocks comment spam 100% with no false positives, but also because unlike Akismet, no spam comments are saved in the blog’s database. This means a WordPress blog can operate more efficiently. Read More »Blocking comment spam in WordPress

Restoring a large WordPress Database

Restoring a large WordPress Database

This article applies not only to people who use WordPress technology for their websites or blogs, but to anybody who uses any kind of CMS, for example, Joomla and Drupal, which uses a MySql database . However it may not apply to bloggers who use blogging software on third party servers such as wordpress.com or Blogger.

If you have a blog or website on your own server that uses a MySql database as WordPress does, and you update your blog or website frequently, your database has probably grown to several 10s of megabytes over the years. If so, unless you know how to backup your database and uploaded files to your PC, and also how to restore them to your server when needed, you are in jeopardy of losing hundreds of hours of hard work if the server crashes! Read More »Restoring a large WordPress Database

WordPress – How to assign categories and tags to pages

WordPress – How to assign categories and tags to pages

December 11, 2011 update: Before you read this article, you should know I now consider it unnecessary. Because of new feature of custom menus from WordPress version 3, a post can be assigned to a menu item among page menu items. Therefore there is no reason to do what I outlined before. 🙂

From quite a while ago I’ve been wondering if there was a way to assign a category and tags to WordPress pages. There is no apparent option to do this in WordPress. Posts have the capability to be assigned categories and tags, but pages have no such option. Besides this, I wanted to have long articles added as pages to both appear in the top page menu and yet also have them appear as titles of new posts in the sidebar menu widget.

One of my projects is http://starsandpearls.com/ The short articles were add as posts, but some of the long articles, the “E-zines”, are laid out in a magazine format with its own internal menu. If you go to the site and put your mouse over the “Stars and Pearl E-zine” menu item, you will see the menu drop down with menu items that all point to pages. And yet you will find 6 of the same menu titles also in the Recent Posts side bar menu! How did I do it? Read More »WordPress – How to assign categories and tags to pages

Removing the WWW sub-domain for search engine optimization

Removing the WWW sub-domain for search engine optimization

One of my websites, Deep Truths would show in a browser using either the WWW subdomain prefix, www.deeptruths.com or without the WWW, e.g. deeptruths.com. From search engines’ point of view, this meant that there were two websites of the exact same content and one of the sites would be penalized and not listed in search results. Deep Truths was hosted on a Microsoft IIS server. Because of this the WWW subdomain name could not be removed without the help of the MS IIS server administrator. He is a friendly guy I’ve had much communication with, but when I wrote him about the problem, he either didn’t understand it well or thought it was not really a problem. Read More »Removing the WWW sub-domain for search engine optimization