'Technical' Category
Remove WordPress generator meta tag from header
Having upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1 I discovered that if you include wp_head(); in your theme’s header.php, it now displays the following within the generated html header tags by default.
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.5.1" />
Perhaps you don’t want to announce to the world exactly which version of Wordpress you are using - especially if you are slow [...]Firefox about:config hacks
The world and his wife have just installed/updated to Firefox 3. I love this browser and have been using it for a long time. However, I’ve made a few hacks I thought I’d share.
Open a tab and type into the url bar about:config and then click on the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” [...]Accessing a shared Ubuntu directory via Windows
I’ve set up an Ubuntu LAMP server for use with a Windows machine over a local network. This was primarily so my wife could develop websites from her desktop Windows machine on a local LAMP server before uploading to our live server.
I was writing some tracking code in PHP for one of those websites [...]Connecting to your Ubuntu Server remotely
As you already know, my wife is using an old computer running Ubuntu for her web development server. I can’t see the point in having a monitor plugged into it when all she ever needs to do is either a) alter the DocumentRoot when she works on a different site or b) wants to [...]
Using your Ubuntu Apache test server with Windows
So we’ve set up our Ubuntu LAMP server, but now we want to use it to develop our wonderful websites. Years ago I only had one computer so I ran Linux on it and worked directly on the server itself as well as using it as my desktop. However, I personally prefer to [...]
