Practical writing on WordPress development, headless CMS, performance, and the craft of building marketing websites.https://dev.redbridgenet.com/en-ushttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/practical-ai-tools-for-wordpress-platforms/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/practical-ai-tools-for-wordpress-platforms/What Marketing and Development Teams Should Actually Use Artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding the number of tools available to marketing and development teams. For organizations running WordPress platforms, the challenge is not access, it is selection. There are now dozenWed, 25 Mar 2026 15:50:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ai-content-workflows-for-wordpress-platforms/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ai-content-workflows-for-wordpress-platforms/How Marketing and Development Teams Are Adapting Artificial intelligence is not only changing how websites are structured and discovered — it is beginning to reshape how organizations produce and manage content at scale. For marketing and digital teams, this introduces … RTue, 10 Mar 2026 13:12:02 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/what-makes-a-website-ai-ready-architecture-considerations-for-wordpress-platforms/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/what-makes-a-website-ai-ready-architecture-considerations-for-wordpress-platforms/Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape how information is discovered, consumed, and generated across the web. As AI assistants, search summaries, and automated workflows become more common, organizations are beginning to ask an important question: What does it mean for &Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:34:43 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-ai-is-changing-seo-for-wordpress-websites/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-ai-is-changing-seo-for-wordpress-websites/For many years, search engine optimization followed a fairly predictable pattern. Create useful content, structure it well, build authority, and your website could earn visibility in search results. Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape that landscape. Search engines arThu, 26 Feb 2026 19:36:38 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-future-of-wordpress-in-the-ai-era/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-future-of-wordpress-in-the-ai-era/Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how websites are built, managed, and discovered. For WordPress sites, the question isn’t whether AI will affect your site …it already is. Search behavior is evolving. Content creation is accelerating. User expectations are changinThu, 15 Jan 2026 15:35:28 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/need-a-wordpress-website-update/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/need-a-wordpress-website-update/Are you thinking you need a WordPress website update? Are you considering refreshing your design or doing a complete overhaul? What is the best approach for your site? These are among the many questions I get asked on this topic.  … Read More Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:32:03 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/website-redesign-project-turnaround-time/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/website-redesign-project-turnaround-time/One question that comes up over and over again is “how much time should we allocate for a website redesign?” In our business we live and breathe fast pace. Our marketing teams rely on us to be snappy and efficient. … Read More Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:44:51 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/finding-the-right-wordpress-design-and-development-agency/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/finding-the-right-wordpress-design-and-development-agency/Are you a startup, enterprise company, small business or non profit in search of finding the right WordPress design or development agency? Outgrown your current web development support? Looking to take you website marketing efforts to the next level? I … Read More Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:14:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-site-audit/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-site-audit/If your marketing team is looking to increase lead generation and conversions having a highly optimized site is critical. Whether you’ve had your website built for some time, have utilized different resources to update or maintain your site, or have … Read More Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:00:45 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hayes-valley-web-design/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hayes-valley-web-design/Red Bridge Internet is a San Francisco based Hayes Valley Web Design and Development firm. We’ve been in business for over a decade specializing in Web site marketing, including Search Engine Optimization, Paid Search Management, and Social Media Marketing in … Read Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:19:30 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/require-phone-number-in-paypal-express-checkout/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/require-phone-number-in-paypal-express-checkout/I had to look into how to require a customer phone number using PayPal Express Checkout recently and just found the process to be a pain. Since I don’t work in the PayPal setups/development screens often, I was hoping to … Read More Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:25:27 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hayes-valley-eats-our-community-directory-project/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hayes-valley-eats-our-community-directory-project/Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit we’ve recognized the need to provide the community real time updates pertaining to food establishment store hours and offerings. The goal of Hayes Valley Eats is to support the community restaurant store owners and markets … Read More Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:21:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-community-meetup-summer-update/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-community-meetup-summer-update/Red Bridge continues to lead the charge on organizing the monthly meetups in San Francisco for the WordPress Community Meetup. We’ve been fostering a great group of freelancers in development, design and marketing along with representatives from other small – …Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:51:47 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/sysdig/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/sysdig/We recently relaunched Sysdig.com with a brand new site. Working with Sysdig and their designers we created a modern update focused on cross device compatibility and accessibility. The new site helps make all their product information and documentation available for … ReadTue, 09 Oct 2018 15:33:55 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-engagement-is-key-to-your-social-media-strategy/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-engagement-is-key-to-your-social-media-strategy/  There’s an older blog post (circa July 2017) by Buffer Social written by Alfred Lua that hones in on some fundamental reasons why businesses have to think outside the box when it comes to establishing a successful social media … Read More Mon, 01 Jan 2018 14:47:35 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/technical-seo-for-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/technical-seo-for-wordpress/Technical SEO for WordPress is a presentation prepared for the San Francisco WordPress Meetup, Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Ed Reckers, founder/owner and developer at Red Bridge Internet, a San Francisco WordPress Development firm.   This session will cover basic … Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:12:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-meetup-fall-update/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-meetup-fall-update/It’s an exciting time at WordPress San Francisco Meetup while we look ahead to next year! Since being part of the team of organizers for the last year our group has gone through a few shifts in format and location … Read More Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:07:56 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/living-style-guides-pattern-libraries-and-atomic-design/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/living-style-guides-pattern-libraries-and-atomic-design/Notes and references to living style guides, pattern libraries, and atomic design. Articles and Writeups Atomic Design – Brad Frost Creating Style Guides – A List Apart Style Guide Driven Development – Speaker Deck Style Guide Generator Roundup – A &hellipSat, 15 Apr 2017 12:01:07 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/improve-your-website-ranking-tips/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/improve-your-website-ranking-tips/While running a business, it’s often evident that updating your own blog can be the last chore on your ongoing list of to-dos. Oddly enough as web designers and developers we often find ourselves in the very position of reciting … Read More Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:27:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/using-the-wordpress-app-to-create-blog-posts-from-bed/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/using-the-wordpress-app-to-create-blog-posts-from-bed/This isn’t a tutorial. I’m actually playing with the WordPress app by posting from bed. This is a photo of Little Pete’s I took in Philadelphia from December of this year while attending WordCamp US. So, all in all this … Read More Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:09:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-volunteer-work-best-approaches-and-benefits/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-volunteer-work-best-approaches-and-benefits/Over the last couple of years Red Bridge has been active volunteering our WordPress web development services to a community organization; reflecting back this has been a positive experience. Here are some takeaways that apply to best approaches and benefits … Read More Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:53:34 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/git-delete-branch-local-and-remote/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/git-delete-branch-local-and-remote/Delete a branch locally: git branch -d the-branch-name Delete a branch on remote: git push origin –delete the-branch-name References Git Branching – Remote Branches : Deleting Remote Branches Git – Branch Management Git branch – Delete local branch   Sat, 25 Jun 2016 17:26:30 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-wordpress-is-good-for-startups/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-wordpress-is-good-for-startups/Are you wondering if WordPress is good for StartUps? Are you a startup looking for a new site launch or redesign? Have you worked with WordPress before but wonder if it can handle all your company is looking to do? … Read More Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:43:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/seeking-wordpress-developers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/seeking-wordpress-developers/We are a small, agile, fast growing firm looking for self driven WordPress developers. We are a core team of talented designers, engineers and developers with a proven track record of success and focus on WordPress projects. We are always … Read More Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:39:01 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/woocommerce-shipping-set-up/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/woocommerce-shipping-set-up/Have questions regarding your WooCommerce shipping set up? Once your decision has been made that you are going to set up WooCommerce for your store or retail items the next set of important questions evolve around shipping options and processes. … Read More Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:16:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/woocommerce-shipping-calculation-issues-with-fedex-or-ups-plugins/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/woocommerce-shipping-calculation-issues-with-fedex-or-ups-plugins/Are you running an e-commerce shop and experiencing WooCommerce shipping calculation issues with FedEx or UPS plugins?  Are these plugins providing calculations that are either too high or to low? Were things working well until inventory increased along with sales?  … ReadTue, 16 Feb 2016 13:34:04 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-design-strategy-support-development-and-maintenance/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-design-strategy-support-development-and-maintenance/Welcome to the new year. We finished strong in 2015 completing many new websites and are ramping up to cater to clients in need of WordPress design & strategy, development, support and maintenance for 2016. It’s going to be a … Read More Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:46:06 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/packpin-woocommerce-shipment-tracking/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/packpin-woocommerce-shipment-tracking/Looking for a WooCommerce shipment tracking plugin that is concise and easy to use and manage? The Packpin WooCommerce Shipment Tracking plugin although pretty new is one to consider for it’s simplicity and ease of use. I like the clean … Read More Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:27:39 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/disable-individual-theme-update-notification-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/disable-individual-theme-update-notification-wordpress/You can disable the WordPress update notification/nag for a single individual theme with the following code snippet. Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:51:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/quality-hosting-plays-an-integral-role-for-your-wordpress-website/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/quality-hosting-plays-an-integral-role-for-your-wordpress-website/If you are considering cheaper hosting to keep costs down you need to understand that quality hosting plays an integral role for your WordPress website. It’s seriously important. Time and time again the choice to go with cheaper hosting never … Read More Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:23:21 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-to-find-select-wordpress-users-with-administrator-capabilities/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-to-find-select-wordpress-users-with-administrator-capabilities/A simple post with a MySQL query to find user account with Administrator access for WordPress database. Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:27:08 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/what-is-involved-in-delivering-a-quality-wordpress-site/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/what-is-involved-in-delivering-a-quality-wordpress-site/It’s a good thing to understand what is involved in delivering a quality WordPress site from start to finish. Being on the front line of project communications it never ceases to amaze me when a prospect thinks the tasks that … Read More Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:51:44 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/keys-to-quality-wordpress-development/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/keys-to-quality-wordpress-development/I’ve been explaining what is important when considering quality traits that are keys to quality wordpress development and this recent read really struck a chord. If you’re even slightly intrigued by the WordPress Community, its platform and those that live … ReThu, 16 Jul 2015 20:03:22 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-engineering-best-practices-guide-by-10up/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-engineering-best-practices-guide-by-10up/10up is very well regarded WordPress development firm that does a great job of giving back to the WordPress community. 10up has a living Engineering Best Practices document that is a great resource for advanced developers. Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:01:57 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/jason-cohen-of-wp-engine-on-what-100-uptime-means/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/jason-cohen-of-wp-engine-on-what-100-uptime-means/There’s an older blog post (circa 2013) by WP Engine founder Jason Cohen titled Do You Have 100% Uptime? which discusses the challenges (technical and cost) of what 100% web services / web site uptime really means. Sat, 04 Jul 2015 12:00:51 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/flywheel-on-improving-back-end-performance-for-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/flywheel-on-improving-back-end-performance-for-wordpress/Flywheel outlining optimization techniques for improving back-end performance for WordPress websites: Make your site blazing fast: Part 2. Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:05:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-hide-w3tc-menu-items-from-non-administrators/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-hide-w3tc-menu-items-from-non-administrators/If you need to hide the W3 Total Cache sidebar and admin bar menu item links from non-Administrators you can use the following in your functions.php Wed, 27 May 2015 18:36:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/uk-firm-pragmatics-experience-hosting-500-installs-with-wp-engine/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/uk-firm-pragmatics-experience-hosting-500-installs-with-wp-engine/Since we use WP Engine here at Red Bridge Internet for hosting our client sites and our own internal projects and sites, this was a great read on a UK WordPress firm’s experience hosting 500 installs with WP Engine. They … Read More Fri, 15 May 2015 10:04:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-finding-a-local-web-developer-matters/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-finding-a-local-web-developer-matters/There are some fundamental good reasons why finding a local web developer matters. Working with a local web development team can bring a higher level of efficiency to your website project. Intrinsically clients who are local are always eager to … Read More Tue, 12 May 2015 16:53:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/css-tricks-on-the-priority-navigation-pattern/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/css-tricks-on-the-priority-navigation-pattern/A compelling post by Chris Coyier which sheds light on css tricks on the priority+ navigation pattern outlines different variables that would bring the concept of exposing important navigation links vs hiding them behind a toggle. His post, “The Priority+ … Read MoreThu, 30 Apr 2015 14:48:04 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-wordpress-optimization-improved-list25-performance/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-wordpress-optimization-improved-list25-performance/A post worth viewing by WP Beginner outlining how they optimized their List25 WordPress website and increased performance of their WordPress website up to 256%. Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:09:32 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/keith-clark-on-loading-css-without-blocking-render/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/keith-clark-on-loading-css-without-blocking-render/An interesting post outlining a method of loading CSS asynchronously without render blocking by Keith Clark. Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:20:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/flywheel-on-improving-front-end-performance-for-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/flywheel-on-improving-front-end-performance-for-wordpress/Noticed a nice post by Flywheel, a Managed WordPress Host, outlining optimization techniques for improving frontend performance for WordPress websites: Make your site blazing fast: Part 1. Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:54:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/tom-mcfarlin-on-how-to-bring-awareness-to-yourself-as-a-wordpress-developer/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/tom-mcfarlin-on-how-to-bring-awareness-to-yourself-as-a-wordpress-developer/The dilemma you’ll face working within the WordPress ecosystem; does one enter the product space or the services space as development professional. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:38:35 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-remove-extra-yoast-seo-columns/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-remove-extra-yoast-seo-columns/It’s surprisingly simple to remove the extra columns added by the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. Here’s a screencast that shows you how. Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:00:21 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-storycorps-uses-wordpress-rest-api-to-build-its-storytelling-apps-and-website/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-storycorps-uses-wordpress-rest-api-to-build-its-storytelling-apps-and-website/Case Study from Post Status highlighting how StoryCorps uses WordPress and the REST API to build its powerful story telling app and companion website. Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:42:24 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/jack-lenox-on-building-themes-with-the-wp-rest-api-and-reactjs/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/jack-lenox-on-building-themes-with-the-wp-rest-api-and-reactjs/This past March at WordCamp London Jack Lenox an Automattician presented on building WordPress Themes using WP REST API and ReactJS. Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:40:16 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/is-it-better-to-use-a-wordpress-seo-plugin-or-rely-on-a-theme/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/is-it-better-to-use-a-wordpress-seo-plugin-or-rely-on-a-theme/The answer comes down to portability, bypass evaluating themes on their SEO setup and instead go with a popular, well supported, and highly rated SEO plugin. Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:12:06 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-hayes-valley-neighborhood-association-new-website-design/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-hayes-valley-neighborhood-association-new-website-design/We are happy and super honored to announce the completion of the newly redesigned website of San Francisco’s Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association. Sun, 05 Apr 2015 10:54:09 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/disable-individual-plugin-update-notification-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/disable-individual-plugin-update-notification-wordpress/You can disable a WordPress plugin update notification/nag with a simple function added to your theme’s functions.php file. Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:32:14 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/cartstack-tracking-scripts-hooks-for-woocommerce-themes/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/cartstack-tracking-scripts-hooks-for-woocommerce-themes/Below are a few WordPress action hooks that you can use in your theme’s functions.php file to insert CartStack tracking code into your WooCommerce store. Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:50:24 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/online-content-marketing-optimization-for-voice-search/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/online-content-marketing-optimization-for-voice-search/Do you have questions on the topic of how to handle online content marketing optimization for voice search? Today I came across a well outlined post by Silvio Porcellana, on SEMRush, titled “How To Optimize Your Online Marketing For Voice Search“.  … Read More Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:53:31 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/which-xml-sitemap-submit-google-webmaster-tools-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/which-xml-sitemap-submit-google-webmaster-tools-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/The sitemap file that you should at minimum be submitting to Google Webmaster Tools if you are using XML Sitemaps with the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin is the main index file: /sitemap_index.xml This is stated in a number of … Read More Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:00:32 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/great-content-topics-for-bloggers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/great-content-topics-for-bloggers/Today I came across a well outlined post on Tweak Your Biz regarding great content topics for bloggers. If you ever hit a wall, like many of us who blog regularly this is a good reference guide. Quality and consistency … Read More Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:01:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/create-post-on-hosted-wordpress-org-blog-via-wordpress-com-unified-dashboard/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/create-post-on-hosted-wordpress-org-blog-via-wordpress-com-unified-dashboard/This post is essentially a test of posting via WordPress.com unified dashboard connected via the Jetpack plugin. The image below is what I’m writing on at the moment:   So, I’ve got this thing written and will be posting shortly. … Read More Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:43:22 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-replace-genesis-seo-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-plugin/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-replace-genesis-seo-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-plugin/It took me a while to find the answer to how to deactivate Genesis SEO and replace with WordPress SEO by Yoast. The answer is a simple one: Just install WordPress SEO by Yoast. That’s it. Genesis Framework has built in … Read More Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:48:24 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-developer-on-the-rash-of-wordpress-projects-that-are-90-done/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-developer-on-the-rash-of-wordpress-projects-that-are-90-done/There was a great post put out recently by Andy Adams titled, “90% Projects and WordPress“. It happens to all kinds of software projects. A well-meaning developer gets the bulk of the site done, and then comes the final 10%. … Read More Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:56:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/best-practice-for-using-images-on-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/best-practice-for-using-images-on-wordpress/Just recently I got asked by a client what is the best practice for using images on WordPress. Good question. In this post I will outline a few pointers that will help optimize your WordPress posts. Why Image Size Does … Read More Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:11:06 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/testimonial-rotator-wordpress-plugin-page-speed-optimization/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/testimonial-rotator-wordpress-plugin-page-speed-optimization/Here at Red Bridge Internet we do a lot of high-touch WordPress page speed and performance optimizations for our installations and optimizing individual WordPress plugins is a big part of that. Here we talk about some of the things you … Read More Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:46:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/bear-with-us-we-are-launching-a-spring-redesign/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/bear-with-us-we-are-launching-a-spring-redesign/It’s that time of year again. We’ll be deploying a new design for Red Bridge Internet, that will make things easier to navigate, be more performant, and simply looks nicer than the bare bones design we had previously. The basics … Read More Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:31:23 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-quality-managed-wordpress-hosting-is-important/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-quality-managed-wordpress-hosting-is-important/When a prospective client begins there discussion with us in regards to a website development or redesign we find ourselves always emphasizing why quality managed WordPress hosting is important. It’s never a fun discussion when the client has to consider … Read More Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:52:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/pros-of-using-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/pros-of-using-wordpress/Prospective clients who haven’t used WordPress initially always ask what are the pros of using WordPress. Good question. I will highlight below the top 5 reasons why considering using WordPress is an ideal choice for your business. Supportive Community I … Read More Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:36:53 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/sourcing-wordpress-themes-and-plugins/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/sourcing-wordpress-themes-and-plugins/Let’s face it one of the biggest advantages in having a WordPress site is the flexibility that themes and plugins can provide when it comes to customizing your website. I’m often asked by clients “what should I look for while … Read More Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:40:17 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-use-tags-and-categories-in-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-use-tags-and-categories-in-wordpress/New clients often want to know how to use tags and categories in WordPress. If you are new to WordPress it can potentially be a bit confusing. Once you understand the roles of tags and categories it’s pretty easy to … Read More Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:08:25 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-disable-comments-in-wordpress-on-pages-and-posts/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-disable-comments-in-wordpress-on-pages-and-posts/This post explains how to disable comments in WordPress on pages and posts. I’ll explain how this can be done on newly created pages and posts as well as existing pages you have on your site. Handling this task is … Read More Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:47:16 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-make-a-wordpress-website-mobile-friendly-for-google/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-make-a-wordpress-website-mobile-friendly-for-google/Want to know how to make a WordPress website mobile friendly for Google? In this post I will outline the essential reasons and factors that are involved in getting your website mobile friendly today. Why make your WordPress Site Mobile … Read More Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:20:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-add-notes-to-wordpress-dashboard/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-add-notes-to-wordpress-dashboard/Often times we hear from clients that they want to know how to add notes to WordPress dashboard so they can share thoughts with other users on their site. Good news! There is a great WordPress Plugin that will allow … Read More Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:19:35 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-is-so-effective/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-is-so-effective/For anyone looking to write optimized posts there are several solid reasons why WordPress SEO by Yoast is so effective. It’s a powerful tool and frankly it’s a must have for anyone looking to SEO their blog or website’s content … Read More Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:45:01 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-disable-automatic-updates-in-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-disable-automatic-updates-in-wordpress/Since WordPress 3.7 security and minor releases are automatically updated in a typical WordPress install. For some WordPress hosted sites the need may arise to turn off the automatic update feature and manually handle these updates at a later time. … Read More Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:28:33 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-verses-hugo-and-jekyll-static-site-generators/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-verses-hugo-and-jekyll-static-site-generators/Are you trying to understand why you should use WordPress verses Hugo and Jekyll (static site generators)? I recently stumbled on a terrific post that outlines some compelling reasons why choosing WordPress is a good idea. The author, a seasoned … Read More Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:52:44 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/301-vs-404/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/301-vs-404/Wondering what’s the difference between 301 vs. 404 redirects? Are you confused about when you should use a 301 redirect vs. a 404 redirect? Below is a short and helpful guide that will help you navigate between the two. Differences … Read More Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:56:53 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-com-and-wordpress-org/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-wordpress-com-and-wordpress-org/Are you wondering what’s the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?  It’s pretty straight forward. WordPress.com 100% free. Free hosting included. Ideal if you don’t plan on doing any coding modifications. Maintenance not required. Backups of your sThu, 20 Nov 2014 14:20:47 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/drupal-to-wordpress-migration/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/drupal-to-wordpress-migration/Are you considering a Drupal to WordPress migration? You are not alone. Currently we are seeing an ever increasing demand by business owners who are interested in moving their Drupal sites to WordPress for a number of reasons.  Many are … Read More Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:28:16 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-remove-news-from-modern-tribe-dashboard-widget/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-remove-news-from-modern-tribe-dashboard-widget/If you need to remove the “News from Modern Tribe” dashboard widget by The Events Calendar plugin from Modern Tribe you can add a simple bit of code to your theme’s functions file. The “News from Modern Tribe” dashboard widget will … Read MoreSat, 06 Sep 2014 11:34:47 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/very-cool-animated-gifs-by-dave-whyte/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/very-cool-animated-gifs-by-dave-whyte/You can view more gifs at Dave Whyte’s Bees & Bombs blog on Tumblr. Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:27:11 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-help/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-help/San Francisco WordPress Help Looking for San Francisco WordPress Help? Are you a designer, marketing expert,  or small business owner and need help with your WordPress site?  If you need help with design, development, marketing and SEO we recommend you … Read More Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:44:06 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/asynchronous-google-analytics-plugin-wordpress-multisite-domains/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/asynchronous-google-analytics-plugin-wordpress-multisite-domains/I was in the market for a Google Analytics plugin to track individual domains on a WordPress Multisite installation under a single Google Analytics Profile. There is a current maintained plugin for this called Google Analytics MU. This is a fork … Read More Fri, 30 May 2014 17:51:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-lowercase-yoast-wordpress-seo-meta-keywords/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-lowercase-yoast-wordpress-seo-meta-keywords/If you need to make lowercase the WordPress SEO by Yoast meta keywords output, you can simply filter the output. Make sure that under “Sitewide meta settings” you have checked “Use meta keywords tag?”. Then, if you’d like you can use … Read MoWed, 07 May 2014 11:45:33 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/four-free-options-for-adding-contact-forms-to-your-website/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/four-free-options-for-adding-contact-forms-to-your-website/Let’s say you have a static website hosted on something like Github Pages. I have one at edreckers@github.io. I am pointing my domain edreckers.com to it via CNAME. These are static HTML sites and I needed to place a contact … Read More Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:02:17 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/good-options-for-free-stock-images-for-wordpress-websites/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/good-options-for-free-stock-images-for-wordpress-websites/Let’s face it finding  good quality stock photos can be cumbersome. Are you building websites with full screen hero images? Are you managing social media campaigns and are seeking some fun and refreshing images to breathe life into the mundane? … Read More Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:40:05 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/compelling-reasons-why-you-dont-want-to-use-infinite-scroll-on-your-website/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/compelling-reasons-why-you-dont-want-to-use-infinite-scroll-on-your-website/Ever notice the serious scrolling mode we are in these days when surfing the internet?  Infinite scrolling experiences are most predominant on social, fashion and other image centric websites. Although it may appear as a fun and perky experience,  there … Read More Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:22:32 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/good-practices-for-link-building/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/good-practices-for-link-building/Building high quality and relevant links to your blog is key for search engine rankings and traffic.  Here is a helpful short guide outlining 5 good practices for link building on how to be effective while doing so. Good Sound … Read More Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:33:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/good-practices-for-wordpress-guest-blogging/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/good-practices-for-wordpress-guest-blogging/Guest blogging for the sole purpose of creating links has been around for years and the abuse of this approach is what Google is now emphasizing must change for the sake of good link building. In today’s climate some good … Read More Tue, 08 Apr 2014 07:22:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/multiple-google-site-verification-meta-tags/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/multiple-google-site-verification-meta-tags/If you were wondering if it was Ok to have multiple google-site-verification meta tags on your website, the answer is Yes it is. From Google webmaster central FAQ: Website verification: https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-website-verification #multiple-owners Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:13:49 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/quora-really-hates-its-users/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/quora-really-hates-its-users/Just ran into an inexplicably bad user interaction design today. Quora must really hate me. I’ve heard this called a “squeeze” page in marketing circles, but when I’m an active user, I don’t need the squeeze. Basically, I have an … Read More Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:56:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-specialists/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-specialists/In search of San Francisco WordPress specialists? Red Bridge Internet are local San Francisco Bay Area WordPress experts specializing in plugin, theme, and application development for WordPress powered websites. We have been developing LAMP stack open source websites and web &helTue, 18 Feb 2014 11:35:24 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-core-load-order-infographic/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-core-load-order-infographic/Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:16:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-exclude-specific-pages-from-w3-total-cache/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-exclude-specific-pages-from-w3-total-cache/If you need to exclude specific pages from being cached while using W3 Total Cache you simply add/register the pages.   goto Performance > Page Cache scroll to Advanced > Never cache the following pages   You then add the … Read More Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:34:55 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/thunderbird-gmail-login-to-server-imap-googlemail-com-failed/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/thunderbird-gmail-login-to-server-imap-googlemail-com-failed/I recently setup a Google Apps email and I’m using Thunderbird with IMAP as the client on a Windows 7 machine. I woke this morning to find the error: server imap.googlemail.com failed It wasn’t the easiest thing to find a … Read More Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:28:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/provide-catchall-ability-for-google-apps-non-primary-domain/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/provide-catchall-ability-for-google-apps-non-primary-domain/If you manage email with multiple domains (not alias) with Google Apps and need to recreate catchall capabilities for a non-primary domains then you can use Google’s “address alias”. I thought this was only a @gmail capability, but domains on … Read More Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:02:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-isnt-there-a-24-hour-workout-video-channel/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/why-isnt-there-a-24-hour-workout-video-channel/This is my very first Quora question asking why there isn’t a 24 hour cable channel playing only workout videos. Why is there not a 24 hour Workout or Fitness Channel on cable licensing old workout videos?  Here’s my very … Read More Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:27:31 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-development-partners-san-francisco/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-development-partners-san-francisco/If you are a local San Francisco Bay Area designer who has little or no experience with coding, programming, or WordPress development and have a WordPress project coming up, you should speak with us. Working with programming-deficient 🙂 Web designers … Read More Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:22:52 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/google-penguin-and-answers-site-a-personal-anecdote/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/google-penguin-and-answers-site-a-personal-anecdote/I’m not sure what Google’s ultimately going to do with their ranking of Question and Answer (Q&A) sites. A simple search for the term “personal anecdote” first brings up a Yahoo Answers page that points right back to the Dictionary.com definition, &helMon, 13 Jan 2014 15:41:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-new-wordpress-widget-starter-class/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-new-wordpress-widget-starter-class/A new widget was posted today on GitHub by user khromov for simplifying the creation of WordPress Widgets. It’s very similar to some other things out there that currently escapes my memory, but well worth taking a look at: wp-better-starter-widget … Read More Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:40:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/picture-happiness/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/picture-happiness/Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:05:57 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/active-discussion-typical-hourly-rates-wordpress-consultants/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/active-discussion-typical-hourly-rates-wordpress-consultants/There is currently an active topic on Quora discussing typical hourly rates charged by WordPress consultants in the United States. Rates range from $30 to $60 for basic theme modifications and $80 to $150 per hour for skills capable of … Read More Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:39:54 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-freelancers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-freelancers/Have an immediate need for a San Francisco WordPress Freelancer for WordPress web development and design? Our passion is keeping your website well deployed and always up to date with WordPress site management. Need a new site? Have one and … Read More Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:30:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-fix-putty-connection-manager-grey-screen/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-fix-putty-connection-manager-grey-screen/In case of times that your tabs are opened as a grey screen with PuTTY Connection Manager you will need to make the following configuration changes: select Tools > Options select Plugins > Putty check “Enable additional timing for PuTTY … Read More Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:05:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/magento-sitemap-displaying-inactive-and-empty-categories/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/magento-sitemap-displaying-inactive-and-empty-categories/For some reason Magento displays a category in the human readable sitemap even if the category is empty or set inactive. I am currently at CE 1.7.1 and the sitemap still displays inactive and empty categories. To be sure, this … Read More Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:45:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/php-loop-through-a-z-and-print-css-style-declarations/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/php-loop-through-a-z-and-print-css-style-declarations/Something silly that I’m going to keep. Loops through A-Z and prints some stylesheet declarations for me. Here’s the code: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:18:38 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/social-network-replacements-for-facebook/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/social-network-replacements-for-facebook/We’ve got a small theory around there that social networks going forward will cycle through a build and destroy life cycle. You can see that happening today with Facebook. It’s now public, it’s now run by MBAs, they’re now in … Read More Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:53:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-experts/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-experts/Call or contact us today if you are looking for WordPress Experts in San Francisco. With our experienced team of local San Francisco WordPress Developers and Designers we can help take on your WordPress project in a professional and timely … Read More Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:07:58 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/remove-img-height-and-width-attributes-with-jquery/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/remove-img-height-and-width-attributes-with-jquery/You’ll sometimes want to remove the height and width attributes from an image tag. You’ll come across this a lot while working with WordPress content, in which case embeded images are given height and width attributes. A simple one liner … Read More Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:35:54 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/url-shortener-being-marked-as-unsafe-on-facebook/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/url-shortener-being-marked-as-unsafe-on-facebook/Norton continues to mark one of our client’s short urls as UNSAFE on facebook. Drilling down further on this matter the url shortener domain is listed under Norton’s http://safeweb.norton.com/ website as a “SCAM Website” threat (no details on this type of Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:20:45 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-add-wordpress-menu-list-separator-for-bootstrap-based-themes/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-add-wordpress-menu-list-separator-for-bootstrap-based-themes/This post quickly documents a method to add a list separator to a WordPress menu with Twitter Bootstrap based themes. Print your WordPress menu in your theme’s template with something like this (note the link_after value): wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ =>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:22:59 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-wordcamp-san-francisco-2013/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-wordcamp-san-francisco-2013/One of my favorite tech events hands down is WordCamp. There’s a buzz in the air knowing you are surrounded by other peeps that have embraced this marvelous platform in more ways than we can fathom. WordPress has come a … Read More Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:12:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/email-comes-prepended-with-the-word-spam/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/email-comes-prepended-with-the-word-spam/Lately I was receiving more and more email with the word and characters *** SPAM *** prepended to the email Subject. It was made worse in that a number of them were periodically marking incoming mail from my own accounts … Read More Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:37:38 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-designers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-designers/We are San Francisco WordPress Designers that are experts in all aspects of WordPress Development.  We specialize in working with medium to large size companies and welcome the entrepreneur who is looking to align themselves with a really good WordPress … Read More Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:34:31 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-developers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-developers/Is your company, startup, or web design service looking for San Francisco WordPress Developers?  Located in beautiful San Francisco we specialize in all aspects of WordPress Development. Whether your customizing needs require special WordPress Themes or entails customization of sWed, 19 Jun 2013 12:21:04 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-extract-domain-from-email-in-php/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-extract-domain-from-email-in-php/How to extract the domain name from an email address with PHP: $email = “handle@domain.com”; // make sure we’ve got a valid email if( filter_var( $email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL ) ) { // split on @ and return last value of array … Read More Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:27:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-php-form-validation-library/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-php-form-validation-library/There’s a PHP Library for Form Validation hosted on Github by user blackbelt called php-validation. It’s described as “This class follows Zend Framework naming conventions for easy drop-in as a substitute to Zend_Validation. If you opt out of using the … Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:49:18 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/internet-trends-2013-slideshare-from-mary-meeker-and-liang-wu-of-kpcb/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/internet-trends-2013-slideshare-from-mary-meeker-and-liang-wu-of-kpcb/The Internet Trends report for 2013 discusses rapidly expanding mobile usage across the globe. KPCB Internet Trends 2013 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Wed, 29 May 2013 13:35:58 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/spam-filtering-and-contact-form-7-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/spam-filtering-and-contact-form-7-wordpress/The forms plugin Contact Form 7 for WordPress offers spam filtering with Akismet. They provide 3 options to add to the appropriate fields in your form: akismet:author akismet:author_email akismet:author_url This is great and these are options that allow Akismet to … Read MTue, 28 May 2013 11:38:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-update-your-hosts-file-on-mac-and-pc/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-update-your-hosts-file-on-mac-and-pc/During development of websites it’s often typical to develop under your existing domain name (ie. www.your-project-domain.com) both locally (on a desktop) and/or on another server with its own IP address while at the same time keeping your existing website running … Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:12:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/nfl-draft-commercial-2013-love-is-coming-your-way/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/nfl-draft-commercial-2013-love-is-coming-your-way/There’s a commercial out for the 2013 NFL Draft playing on NFL Network and possibly ESPN which features a song with the words, “love is coming your way”. It’s great, but it was a bear to search for on the … Read More Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:41:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/screencasts-from-the-html5-developer-conference-san-francisco-2013/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/screencasts-from-the-html5-developer-conference-san-francisco-2013/Screencasts from the HTML5 Developer Conference held on April 1-3 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco will be posted here: http://www.html5devconf.com/videos.html They aren’t yet currently up at the location above, but have been trickling in. Below is the available &hellipSun, 14 Apr 2013 10:28:02 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/dnot-need-no-sitiknng-sepll-ccehk/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/dnot-need-no-sitiknng-sepll-ccehk/Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a … Read More Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:33:43 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-photo-from-mendocino/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-photo-from-mendocino/Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:13:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/indian-payment-gateways-no-recurring-billing-services-available/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/indian-payment-gateways-no-recurring-billing-services-available/I was researching a recurring billing services business which needed to transact business in Indian Rupees. During research, I’ve come around to the finding that there are no Indian Payment Gateways (ie. CCAvenue) that provide recurring (subscription) billing services: WhicThu, 21 Mar 2013 11:45:47 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-email-to-a-client-in-response-to-an-seo-pitch-from-web-com/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-email-to-a-client-in-response-to-an-seo-pitch-from-web-com/I think it’s a little disingenuous of Web.com to explain search engine optimization in such simple terms. Basically, the secret to search engine optimization is building good targeted content and receiving a large number of quality inbound links specifying you … ReadTue, 12 Feb 2013 23:03:59 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/because-i-love-watching-a-dallas-cowboys-fan-rant/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/because-i-love-watching-a-dallas-cowboys-fan-rant/Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:14:21 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/windows-xp-hosts-file-location/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/windows-xp-hosts-file-location/The Windows XP hosts file location is: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:21:30 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/magento-upgrade-1-5-1-0-to-1-6-1-0/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/magento-upgrade-1-5-1-0-to-1-6-1-0/The following post are simple notes I took during the process of upgrading Magento from version 1.5.1.0 to 1.6.1.0. Please feel free to send in a comment if you have any questions. It’s been a while, but if I can … Read More Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:40:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/are-the-hanson-v-google-settlement-fund-checks-legitimate/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/are-the-hanson-v-google-settlement-fund-checks-legitimate/Short answer: Yes. You can cash your Hanson v. Google Settlement Fund checks. They are legitimate. The checks are Google cash distributions to Adwords advertisers from a $20 million dollar settlement for exceeding Adwords daily budgets. I wanted to post … Read More Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:12:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-upload-vcf-to-wordpress-for-download-via-media-uploader/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-upload-vcf-to-wordpress-for-download-via-media-uploader/Uploading and serving V-Card .vcf files from WordPress is a two step process. Step one is adding the MIME type to WordPress so that you can upload your .vcf file with the WordPress Media Uploader. Step two is using Apache’s … Read More Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:58:21 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/upgrade-magento-from-1-5-1-0-to-1-6-2-0/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/upgrade-magento-from-1-5-1-0-to-1-6-2-0/Always gotta love that time when you have to face a Magento upgrade. I’m documenting here my experiences and notes during my recent upgrade from Magento version 1.5.1.0 to 1.6.1.0. It must be noted that I use what’s basically the … Read More Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:20:07 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-find-out-if-a-wordpress-upgrade-contains-database-changes/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-find-out-if-a-wordpress-upgrade-contains-database-changes/If for example one was to upgrade from the last most recent version of WordPress 3.4 to 3.4.1 and wanted to know if the upgrade contains any database changes, you would do the following: 1. first visit the WP version … Read More Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:55:26 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/im-over-organized-and-its-an-absolute-mess/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/im-over-organized-and-its-an-absolute-mess/I’m over organized and it’s an absolute mess! It’s a sight to behold the documentation, notes, task lists and todos that I’m maintaining. I might have more methods of documenting things to do then I’ll have number of things to … Read More Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:16:07 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/sql-query-to-list-wordpress-administrator-account-names/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/sql-query-to-list-wordpress-administrator-account-names/The SQL for selecting a list of WordPress users with the role of “administrator”: SELECT um.user_id AS ID, u.user_login FROM wp_users u, wp_usermeta um WHERE u.ID = um.user_id AND um.meta_key = ‘wp_capabilities’ AND um.meta_value LIKE ‘%administratorTue, 22 May 2012 11:46:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-amazing-simplicity-of-a-pinterest-email/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-amazing-simplicity-of-a-pinterest-email/I was finally moved to “Request an Invite” at Pinterest this evening and when I received the initial email I was amazed at how simple it really was. I mean, this coming from the fastest growing social network ever. It … Read More Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:00:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/print_pre-php-function-to-wrap-print_r-in-pre-preformatted-text-tag/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/print_pre-php-function-to-wrap-print_r-in-pre-preformatted-text-tag/Finally got tired of manually wrapping print_r in <pre> tags so I’m just going to drop this here for future reference: // wrap print_r in preformatted text tags // usage: print_pre($value) function print_pre($value) { echo “<pre>”,print_r($value, truFri, 13 Apr 2012 11:40:47 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-i-broadcast-my-wordpress-blog-posts-to-twitter/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-i-broadcast-my-wordpress-blog-posts-to-twitter/There are a number of WordPress Plugins that appear to allow you to auto-post your WordPress blog posts to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. However, I am going with a service called dlvr.it to help me post my WordPress blog posts … Read More Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:06:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-toggle-open-your-wptouch-menu-on-the-front-page/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-toggle-open-your-wptouch-menu-on-the-front-page/Per client request I was asked that the WPtouch menu default to toggled open when on the frontpage . There may be more elegant solutions, but in order to achieve this I ended up editing a single WPtouch plugin file. … Read More Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:29:53 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/axis-santa-clara-restaurant-and-lounge-launches/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/axis-santa-clara-restaurant-and-lounge-launches/AXIS, Santa Clara’s newest, Restaurant, Lounge, Nightclub, and Event Center opens for business this upcoming weekend. This is a description of their establishment from the Axis website: AXIS Santa Clara’s newest Restaurant, Lounge, Nightclub, & Event Space. With 1Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:38:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-script-to-update-wordpress-user-role-capabilities/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-script-to-update-wordpress-user-role-capabilities/How to update WordPress user role capabilities using a simple PHP script and WordPress user functions. I came upon this issue recently in which I had full access to a WordPress installation; files, database, etc., but my WordPress user account … Read More Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:41:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/squishy/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/squishy/Squishy is a Responsive WordPress Theme based on Theme Hybrid, Hybrid Core and 1140 CSS Grid. This is a Parent Theme used by Red Bridge Internet for quick deploy of Responsive WordPress Themes and projects. Squishy is hosted on BitBucket: … Read More Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:13:56 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-nice-slide-presentation-on-responsive-web-design/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-nice-slide-presentation-on-responsive-web-design/There is a wonderful presentation called, “What the Heck is Responsive Web Design” by John Polacek on his Github using scrolldeck.js: http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js/decks/responsive/ Definitely check out scrolldeck.js used to create the slide deck still pMon, 02 Jan 2012 15:16:08 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-find-websites-hosted-on-a-shared-server/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-find-websites-hosted-on-a-shared-server/If you need to list the number and names of sites hosted on a single shared host (by IP address) you can use the following two services: http://spyonweb.com/ http://w3who.net/ Alternatively, you can follow these steps: First Lookup the DNS Server: … Read More Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:11:37 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-consultants/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-consultants/Looking for a San Francisco WordPress Consultant? You found Red Bridge Internet and that’s the right place! We have been quite active lately as WordPress Consultants for businesses in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Our most recent work consisted of a quick turnSat, 03 Sep 2011 19:27:25 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-move-your-website-changing-domains/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-move-your-website-changing-domains/If you are changing domains because of a re-brand or for some reason aggregating content, you’ll need to make sure that the change is done flawlessly. Since Google is basically the end all and be all of search, I’ve consulted … Read More Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:30:14 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/really-really-good-wordpress-developers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/really-really-good-wordpress-developers/I’ve found that one of the best ways to learn and improve upon writing plugins for WordPress is to review, learn from, and emulate the coding styles and best practices of really good WordPress Developers. As a community post and … Read More Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:48:32 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/word-camp-san-francisco-2011/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/word-camp-san-francisco-2011/Red Bridge Internet attends Word Camp San Francisco.   The overall consensus is that it’s better than last year! While it’s only day 2, our feedback is nothing short of positive. Are you an attendee? Any feedback? Please share with … Read More Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:05:54 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/bay-area-web-site-seo-and-web-development/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/bay-area-web-site-seo-and-web-development/At Red Bridge Internet we specialize in Website SEO and Web Development for the San Francisco Bay Area. We service the greater Bay Area providing SEO Services for businesses big and small, startups, and nonprofits and education. We also provide … Read More Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:53:34 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/restricted-site-access-plus/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/restricted-site-access-plus/I don’t provide this plugin for public download (it’s still too customized to be made publicly available). If you need access to the files or just have questions just contact me and I’ll try and help. Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:55:37 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-chown-and-chgrp-at-the-same-time/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-chown-and-chgrp-at-the-same-time/Stupid simple command to change ownership (chown) and change group (chgrp) at the same time. To simultaneously change both the owner and group of files or directories in linux use the following command structure: chown someusername:somegroupname filename.ext You can man … Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:34:15 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/what-time-is-the-womens-world-cup/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/what-time-is-the-womens-world-cup/The FIFA Women’s World Cup finals match between the United States and Japan will take place Sunday, July 17 2011 in Frankfurt, Germany at 2:00PM Eastern Standard Time 11:00AM Pacific Standard Time. Official Kickoff time is 11:45am PST and 2:45PM … Read More Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:29:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-seo-primer-for-small-businesses/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-seo-primer-for-small-businesses/I just need to point out here an informative blog post at SEOMOZ titled What What Small Business Clients Need to Know About Keywords and SEO which should be required reading for small businesses just getting started on researching Search … Read More Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:57:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-export-subscribers-from-wordpress-com/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-export-subscribers-from-wordpress-com/If there comes a time that you need to export subscribers from WordPress.Com follow these simple steps: login to http://www.wordpress.com select Dashboard : Site Stats locate Totals, Subscriptions & Shares metabox select Site Subscriptions : [] active subscribers select eitheSat, 02 Jul 2011 00:32:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/starbucks-dry-cream-and-splenda/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/starbucks-dry-cream-and-splenda/Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:04:57 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-backup-thunderbird-email-on-windows-7/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-backup-thunderbird-email-on-windows-7/Backing up Mozilla Thunderbird email on Windows 7 is a simple process of archiving your Thunderbird profile. Follow these steps to backup emails for Thunderbird on Windows 7: Step 1 Close Mozilla Thunderbird Step 2 Viewing Hidden Files and Folders … Read More Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:51:17 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-deployment-boilerplate/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-deployment-boilerplate/This outlines a standard list of WordPress Plugins you can start with for any common deployment. This list can act as a basic boilerplate leaving the user to pick and choose due to need. Google XML Sitemaps This plugin will … Read More Fri, 20 May 2011 21:17:35 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/cross-browser-css-background-transparency/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/cross-browser-css-background-transparency/In a nutshell, this is what I used to achieve somewhat cross browser css background transparency: #content { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3); } Then, you’ll of course need to make an exception for stinkin IE: In the case above, I’m using Microsoft’s &helThu, 19 May 2011 21:11:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-upgrade-shell-script/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wordpress-upgrade-shell-script/There’s a couple examples online of shell scripts to upgrade a WordPress installation. However, I’ve ended up creating my own because every configuration (server and WordPress) is inevitably different, requiring you to roll your own. The script below handles a &hellipMon, 09 May 2011 20:07:16 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-print-active-wordpress-template-file/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-print-active-wordpress-template-file/I’ve needed to print the currently active WordPress template file and have forgotten it enough times now to finally document it as a post. During development, there’s usually always a time when you’ll want to detect the the template file that’s being &hellWed, 20 Apr 2011 20:06:53 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/html5-small-business-websites/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/html5-small-business-websites/HTML5 Small Business Websites is what we do at Red Bridge Internet. HTML5 may appear to be only the latest buzzword, but it is in fact a useful and will soon be a crucial technology for small business websites. Small … Read More Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:12:57 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-get-image-thumbnail-filename-in-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-get-image-thumbnail-filename-in-wordpress/I needed to get a post’s image thumbnail filename (only the filename) in WordPress recently and found that it wasn’t as straightforward as I would have thought. WordPress provides a few functions to get a post’s thumbnail such as get_the_post_thumbnail … Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:52:39 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-unassigns-categories-from-posts/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-unassigns-categories-from-posts/Below are a couple snippets and descriptions as to how you can remove posts from a particular category: I think that you should do something like this: 1. List all categories from a post and assign then to an Array … Read More Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:13:54 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/files-to-remove-after-drupal-installation/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/files-to-remove-after-drupal-installation/After an installation or upgrade you can and should remove the following files: install.php CHANGELOG.txt INSTALL.txt INSTALL.mysql.txt INSTALL.pgsql.txt LICENSE.txt MAINTAINERS.txt UPGRADE.txt I’m basing this on the post “Finalize the upgrade” from the Drupal dSat, 19 Mar 2011 20:17:09 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-replace-or-remove-wordpress-howdy/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-replace-or-remove-wordpress-howdy/You can either replace or remove the WordPress Howdy message in the administrative back-end by adding the following in your WordPress theme’s functions.php file: It was recently brought to my attention that this method of removing Howdy from the WordPress admin bar …Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:13:01 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/my-wordpress-master-notes/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/my-wordpress-master-notes/Basically, I’m tired of chasing down my WordPress notes, code snippets, tips, etc.. I’m going to give a public blog post Master Notes page a shot. I figure it might help someone, it’ll keep me interested in adding to and … Read More Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:56:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hybrid-theme-out-with-new-version-0-9/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hybrid-theme-out-with-new-version-0-9/Hybrid Theme is out with a new version 0.9. You can read about the new release at the ThemeHybrid blog post, Hybrid theme version 0.9. One thing that is an absolute must is to be running WordPress 3.1.  The upgrade … Read More Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:11:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-set-browser-uploader-as-default-in-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-set-browser-uploader-as-default-in-wordpress/I needed to make the Browser uploader default in a WordPress installation. It had nothing to do with the Flash Uploader malfunctioning, it was just a requirement I had to meet. So essentially, I needed to disable the Flash Uploader … Read More Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:05:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/grooveshark-streaming-issue-sprint-htc-evo/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/grooveshark-streaming-issue-sprint-htc-evo/Just took care of a streaming issue on my Sprint HTC Evo for Grooveshark, a streaming music service. There’s a number of forum posts on the internet, most on Android forums discussing it, but I saw a hell of a … Read More Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:31:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/linux-how-to-add-users-to-groups/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/linux-how-to-add-users-to-groups/Ok, I know there are man pages, I know there are hundreds of posts on the internet explaining linux user groups, and I know there are posts everywhere explaining how to add users to groups in Linux. However, every single … Read More Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:32:54 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ways-to-insert-static-blocks-into-magento-templates/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ways-to-insert-static-blocks-into-magento-templates//* * Insert into template.phtml */ /* * Insert into the CMS */ {{block type=”cms/block” block_id=”BLOCKNAMEHERE” template=”cms/example-template.phtml”}} /* * Insert into the layout.xml */ BLOCKNAMEHERE Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:42:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-plugin-developer/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/san-francisco-wordpress-plugin-developer/We are San Francisco WordPress Plugin Developers and experts with WordPress Themes and programming custom functions implementing specialized and unique functionality through WordPress Action Hooks and Filters. We create custom WordPress Plugins for clients and sometimes we releasWed, 02 Mar 2011 00:58:29 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/kliky-com-is-now-red-bridge-internet/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/kliky-com-is-now-red-bridge-internet/You may be reading this because you’ve landed at Red Bridge Internet while searching for Kliky.Com . Or, you’ve heard that Kliky.Com has been re-branded as Red Bridge Internet. Or, you’ve come to this page by reasons only a good review … Read More Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:28:35 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/make-filename-lowercase/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/make-filename-lowercase/Sets uploaded media filename to lowercase as filter on ‘sanitize_file_name‘. Based on post at Stack Overflow asking if there is a way to “Rename files during upload within WordPress 3.0 backend”. Built for WordPress 3.0.1+ which saves any media (Image, &heFri, 11 Feb 2011 04:53:05 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-ignore-options-http1-0-200-internal-dummy-connection/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-ignore-options-http1-0-200-internal-dummy-connection/A very common issue with Apache logs in which many multiples of the following lines are logged: OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection) You’re logs will looking something like this (in this case ipv6 enaSun, 06 Feb 2011 20:47:18 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-absolute-best-list-of-top-10-wordpress-plugins-lists/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-absolute-best-list-of-top-10-wordpress-plugins-lists/There seems to be enough Top 10 WordPress Plugins lists on the Internet today to justify a definitive list of these top 10 lists. I haven’t decided yet if this list (of mine) will have a defined number of lists … Read More Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:29:04 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/httpd-not-running-trying-to-start/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/httpd-not-running-trying-to-start/After rebooting my Linux server Apache fails to start. When trying to start with either apachectl or httpd I’ll come across the following message: httpd not running, trying to start (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address … Read More Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:35:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-replace-a-wordpress-function/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-replace-a-wordpress-function/This is mainly for my own records, but the curious thing is that when I do a simple search for “how to replace a wordpress function” or a few derivatives of that phrase I’m usuually returned the following links (at least w/ … Read More Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:48:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/is-delicious-being-shut-down/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/is-delicious-being-shut-down/There’s been disturbing rumors that the bookmarking service Delicious was to be shut down. A blog post today (December 17th) on the Delicious Blog goes some way to dispelling this rumor. Is Delicious being shut down? And should I be … Read More Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:19:29 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/incredibly-creative-use-of-a-couple-common-lighters/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/incredibly-creative-use-of-a-couple-common-lighters/Take a look at this series of pictures and watch as a few common lighters are transformed into something really cool: http://joedusk.imgur.com/fucking_awesome Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:54:14 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-upload-flash-f4v-video-with-wordpress/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-upload-flash-f4v-video-with-wordpress/I had an issue with the WordPress 3.0+ video uploader while trying to upload Flash Video files with the extension f4v. Upon attempting to load a flash f4v video file with the WordPress video uploader the following error message would … Read More Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:12:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-ip-range-204-13-201-026-belongs-to-trustwave-holdings/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/the-ip-range-204-13-201-026-belongs-to-trustwave-holdings/You’ll notice the IP range 204.13.201.0/26 scanning your system. This IP address belongs to Trustwave Holdings and is part of their TrustKeeper PCI Vulnerability Scan as part of your PCI DSS compliance services from Trustwave. TrustWave hanldes PCI Compliance for … RTue, 30 Nov 2010 11:28:57 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wishlist-a-method-to-pre-approve-and-track-credit-card-transactions/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/wishlist-a-method-to-pre-approve-and-track-credit-card-transactions/The issue: A business using a credit card doing business with a relatively small number of vendors wanting to first avoid credit card fraud (stolen numbers) and secondly wanting to easily track down the offending business. The idea: The business … Read More Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:23:22 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-for-updating-wordpress-post-urls/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-for-updating-wordpress-post-urls/Sometimes you’ll need to update post and page urls when going from a development environment to production, or more simply when going from one domain to the next. If you have many (10s to 100s), and you will have that … Read More Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:36:02 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-config-examples/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-config-examples/I recently was on the search for a few examples of active MySQL configuration files (my.cnf). It’s always nice to see someone else’s production version of a configuration file and during this search I realized that not a lot of … Read More Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:40:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/list-of-comparison-shopping-engines-cse/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/list-of-comparison-shopping-engines-cse/Below is a list of Comparison Shopping Engines (CSEs) which we had compiled during previous research. The definition of a Comparison Shopping Engine from Internet.Com’s Webopedia: Shopping search engines that compare the prices on searched-for products at various online stoThu, 10 Jun 2010 17:29:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/essential-wordpress-plugins/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/essential-wordpress-plugins/This post is a running tab of what we at Red Bridge Internet consider essential WordPress Plugins. These WordPress Plugins are essential in that they should be included in every new WordPress installation we spin up. Below is our ever-updated list … Read More Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:49:08 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/gmail-phishing-attack-a-gift-of-spam-from-gmail/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/gmail-phishing-attack-a-gift-of-spam-from-gmail/At 5:46AM the morning of May 19, 2010 I received an email from a client’s Gmail address (the address used in from/senders). The contents of the email tipped me off that it was probably the result of an earlier Gmail … Read More Thu, 20 May 2010 16:02:59 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-view-visits-hourly-in-google-analytics/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-view-visits-hourly-in-google-analytics/There are many out there who believe Google Analytics does not provide hourly reporting in their traffic reports. The main question is if Google Analytics provides hourly statistics or traffic reports broken down by hour for a particular day. With … Read More Sat, 15 May 2010 19:02:09 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/11-interesting-links-i-found-this-week-april-14/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/11-interesting-links-i-found-this-week-april-14/Here’s a list of 11 interesting links I found browsing the Web this week. I send them to myself over multiple formats throughout the week and towards the end of each (April 14th) try and record them in these blog … Read More Sat, 15 May 2010 03:23:26 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/nokia-n8-prototype-pictures/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/nokia-n8-prototype-pictures/Engadget snapped a few photos and was able to handle a prototype of Nokia’s N8 in London recently, which will be hitting shelves Q3 of this year loaded with Symbian 3. Below is a photo of the Nokia N8 as … Read More Tue, 11 May 2010 15:39:46 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/favitt-search-multiple-search-engines-from-one-page/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/favitt-search-multiple-search-engines-from-one-page/Sometimes I don’t even know why these guys bother. Faviit lets you perform the same search on multiple search engines from a single page, thus saving you from the frustration of opening multiple browser tabs and typing the same words … Read More Sat, 08 May 2010 16:15:28 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-great-showcase-of-web-design-incorporating-photos/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-great-showcase-of-web-design-incorporating-photos/The Six Revisions site always seems to come up with intelligent posts which inspire. If you haven’t already, you should follow their tweets. The just put up a post called, “Excellent Examples of Using Photos in Web Design” and I’d … Read More Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:17 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/joomla-vs-wordpress-its-a-matter-of-your-design-approach/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/joomla-vs-wordpress-its-a-matter-of-your-design-approach/This article titled, “Joomla And WordPress: A Matter Of Mental Models” from Smashing Magazine contends that your choice of CMS depends on how you expect Web applications to allow for theming and core manipulation. Open-source content management systems (CMS) are &hellMon, 03 May 2010 16:15:47 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/do-more-with-wordpress-custom-fields/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/do-more-with-wordpress-custom-fields/Here’s a good post up on Smashing outlining a few ways to extend WordPress’ custom fields to do much more that you’d initially think, “Extend WordPress with Custom Fields“. WordPress’ popularity has grown exponentially as of late. This rise in &helliFri, 30 Apr 2010 16:58:35 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/4-primary-factors-responsible-in-seo-ranking-equation/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/4-primary-factors-responsible-in-seo-ranking-equation/This is an old post from the SEOmozBlog called My Personal Opinion – 90% of the Rankings Equation Lies in These 4 Factors that’s still well worth the read. I think that sometimes, we in the field of search marketing … Read More Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:41:26 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/nokias-make-my-app-competition/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/nokias-make-my-app-competition/Here’s an open competition by Nokia called the Make My App competition in which you’d submit an idea to be voted on by a panel of judges, in which the winners’ apps would then be then developed and distributed on … Read More Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:12:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-social-media-program-plan-by-karen-snyder/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-social-media-program-plan-by-karen-snyder/An Actual Social Media Program Plan / Strategy View more presentations from Karen Snyder. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:42:05 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/yahoo-web-site-performance-best-practices/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/yahoo-web-site-performance-best-practices/A very good overview of best practices for speeding up your web site from the Yahoo! Developer Network. Very good resource: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:17:52 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-seo-infographic-from-matt-at-datadial/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-seo-infographic-from-matt-at-datadial/A pretty well done infographic covering SEO. Every client of mine should see this (be sure to click through to the full sized image): http://www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/2010/04/13/seo-in-pictures-our-seo-infographic/ The image covers everything from basic keyword research conThu, 22 Apr 2010 18:43:37 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mike-chambers-on-iphones-flash-application-restrictions/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mike-chambers-on-iphones-flash-application-restrictions/A well written post by Adobe’s Mike Chambers in response to Apple’s latest policy restricting its applications. He seems to be angling it as a Flash vs. iPhone issue while somepoint out that it is actually a Flash vs. HTML5/CSS3 … Read More Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:14:19 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-quickly-create-a-mobile-site-using-clickturn/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-quickly-create-a-mobile-site-using-clickturn/There’s an interesting company out there building upon its widget technology to allow publishers to create ad supported mobile versions of their Web sites. From their own site: ClickTurn enables people to create and sell high-impact ad units that marry … Read More Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:01:58 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/gawker-uses-google-ads-to-run-small-scale-ad-campaign/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/gawker-uses-google-ads-to-run-small-scale-ad-campaign/A video explaining how this magazine put an ad up on early morning television (off-peak-hours) on certain cable news channels using Google TV/Video ads. It’s a pretty cool video to watch: http://gawker.com/5498938/buying-an-ad-on-fox-news-is-easier-than-you-think Buying an Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:36:02 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-approve-new-members-with-ning/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-approve-new-members-with-ning/I’ve got a site on the Ning Network and started getting killed by spammers one day. I wanted to make sure that I was able to approve any new members. What the spammers were doing was just signing up with … Read More Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:16:38 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/platform-event-services-web-site-launch/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/platform-event-services-web-site-launch/We’ve recently launched a 1 pager for Platform Event Services, a full service event production house specialising in event bars and concessions management for large-scale corporate events and festivals. The 1 pager was the simple quick implementation for this new … RWed, 10 Feb 2010 16:41:16 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/add-custom-note-attribute-to-magento-grid-view/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/add-custom-note-attribute-to-magento-grid-view/I recently needed to allow for a custom note to be shown in Magento’s Grid and List views. My client asked that they be able to add to any product a customized note (text snippet) to announce such things as … Read More Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:21:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/payment-transaction-failed-after-magento-upgrade/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/payment-transaction-failed-after-magento-upgrade/I recently upgraded an installation of Magento from version 1.1.6 to 1.3.2.1 which lead to a couple issues with the payment system. The first issue was that I had to reset Base URL under Secure in the Configuration. The SSL … Read More Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:59:43 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/150-drupal-themes-modules-and-resources/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/150-drupal-themes-modules-and-resources/The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox collected for us by Noupe. It’s worth taking a look at: http://www.noupe.com/drupal/the-ultimate-drupal-toolbox.html Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:50:38 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/romance-pro-caesars-pocono-resorts/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/romance-pro-caesars-pocono-resorts/Romance Pro is a Spammer. This MySpace user account was created to build links to the atrocious Caesars Pocono Resorts. This account comments on any number of your blog posts linking to the following url: http://www.myspace.com/romancepro This person should be … Read More Thu, 28 May 2009 08:27:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-collection-of-drupal-tutorials/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-collection-of-drupal-tutorials/A nice list of Drupal Tutorials from MogDesign. Check it out here: http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/ Tue, 19 May 2009 15:55:54 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-create-a-magento-staging-site/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-create-a-magento-staging-site/I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades. In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I’m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. … Read More Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:32:34 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/26-firefox-add-ons-for-web-designers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/26-firefox-add-ons-for-web-designers/It’s about the right list covering what Firefox has available right now for Web designers and developers: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/01/25/26-essential-firefox-add-ons-for-web-designers/ Here’s a clip from the post: It’s no secret that web designers and deThu, 05 Feb 2009 12:38:49 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/cannot-login-to-frontend-with-explorer-on-magento-store/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/cannot-login-to-frontend-with-explorer-on-magento-store/I recently had a problem with users of Explorer and login problems on the frontend of a Magento store. They were able to login using Firefox, but when using Explorer they couldn’t login as a customer. The backend was fine. … Read More Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:47:39 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/10-ways-to-protect-a-wordpress-admin/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/10-ways-to-protect-a-wordpress-admin/Smashing Magazine again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to protect a WordPress administrator area. All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well … Read More Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:43 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/php-announced-winner/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/php-announced-winner/A pretty nifty blog post entitled Why PHP Won lists 4 main points as to why the adoption of PHP for most Web projects today outpaces those built on Perl CGI. You can read the post Why PHP Won here: … Read More Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:15:08 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/magento-default-products-sort-order-newest/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/magento-default-products-sort-order-newest/Magento currently does not sort category products and any product listing for that matter by Newest (highest entity_id). Since my store works best when showing fresh products we felt it necessary to have our Magento installation sort by newest product … Read More Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:22:14 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/joomla-development-toolbox-smashing/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/joomla-development-toolbox-smashing/Smashing Magazine the online resource for all types of stuff has a post pp called: Joomla Developer’s Toolbox It’s a nice post listing most of the Joomla resources you’d end up encountering while development a Joomla site. Here’s a quick … Read MoreMon, 05 Jan 2009 19:57:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-check-loaded-extensions-on-linux/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-check-loaded-extensions-on-linux/If you’d like to check your loaded extensions on a Linux machine, create a PHP file with this line: print_r(get_loaded_extensions()); If the file where named print_extensions.php, save and run your file from the command line: php print_extensions.php That’s it. This &Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:58:37 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-change-shell-to-bash/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-change-shell-to-bash/If you’d like to change your shell to bash you can first view your shell by entering the following at the command line: echo $SHELL To change your shell to bash you’ll need to know it’s location. For FreeBSD enter … Read More Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:41:38 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/google-ecommerce-tracking-with-oscommerce/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/google-ecommerce-tracking-with-oscommerce/Below are some notes on how I implemented Google eCommerce Tracking with my osCommerce store. You can view Google’s instructions on enabling e-commerce tracking here: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528 In order to add Google Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-tax-by-state/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-tax-by-state/There is sometimes confusion with the setup of state specific tax rates with osCommerce. For instance if you are charging state taxes shipped within state for such states as Ohio (OH) or California (CA) then you need to assure that … Read More Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:53:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/no-sound-with-flash-youtube-embedded-video/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/no-sound-with-flash-youtube-embedded-video/There’s been huge issues with Flash 9 and embedded flash videos either not playing at all or playing without sound. This problem is sometimes associated with Firefox not playing video sounds, YouTube embedded videos not playing, and with Flash 9 … Read More Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:13:40 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/update-shipping-methods-with-oscommerce-advanced-table-rate/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/update-shipping-methods-with-oscommerce-advanced-table-rate/Updating shipping options have some specials rules due to it being a custom module. I’ve listed the text below from the module’s README file for further reading. Updating shipping methods require the following steps. Uninstall Table Rate Shipping Module (in … RTue, 14 Oct 2008 13:05:16 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-with-ssl-shopping-cart-empty/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-with-ssl-shopping-cart-empty/There is a minor issue with osCommerce when using either 3rd party or ssl certificates assigned to a sub-domain which results in an error reading “Your Shopping Cart is empty!”. This happens when ENABLE_SSL is set to true in the … Read More Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:32:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/increase-category-name-length-in-oscommerce/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/increase-category-name-length-in-oscommerce/osCommerce allows only 32 characters for the Category name length. In order to allow for longer osCommerce category names you can simply update your database table. There are two ways to do this. The first is by using something like … Read More Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:44:03 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-install-joomla-fireboard-with-community-builder/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-install-joomla-fireboard-with-community-builder/I recently installed FireBoard with my Joomla installation, which also uses Community Builder. One thing I noticed is the absence of a decent set of step-by-step instructions for the FireBoard install. I’ll list here the quick and dirty installation instructions … ReTue, 09 Sep 2008 08:06:06 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-print-category-name-as-title/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-print-category-name-as-title/I couldn’t figure out why osCommerce would print a default heading title (HEADING_TITLE) as the category page titles. In order to use the category name as the page title with osCommerce I had to edit the main index.php file. Find … Read More Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:41:26 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/link-oscommerce-infobox-heading/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/link-oscommerce-infobox-heading/The osCommerce infoBox arrows are far too small to effectively communicate a linkable area. Instead, I’d think many would just like to make the infoBox title linkable. To accomplish this do the following: => open file /includes/classes/boxes.php => find the … Read MoThu, 24 Jul 2008 08:42:49 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-contributions-top-lists/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-contributions-top-lists/I find that checking out these favorites, or top ten lists, or best of lists often times helps one get an idea of what’s available for these open source applications. In this case, here’s a few links to some lists … Read More Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:12:43 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-add-product-name-to-breadcrumb/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-add-product-name-to-breadcrumb/Found this useful contribution which allows you to place the actual product name in the breadcrumb. Not sure why this isn’t part of the core, but that’s not for me to ask: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5807 By piggy banking on this contribution, I … Read MoTue, 22 Jul 2008 20:35:41 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-button-generator-oscbuttons/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-button-generator-oscbuttons/Found quick and dirty online button generator that does a decent enough job. oscButtons allows you to quickly mock up buttons, dump into your images directory and give a you a decent idea of what it would look like. Check … Read More Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:15 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-purchase-without-account-database-error/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/oscommerce-purchase-without-account-database-error/I’ve just recently began a project using osCommerce and needed to streamline the checkout process. I wanted to allow the purchaser the options of navigating directly to payment, instead of having to first login or create an account. I found … Read More Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:18:53 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/add-and-edit-images-with-joomla-jce-editor/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/add-and-edit-images-with-joomla-jce-editor/This addition to the Joomla Documentation addresses adding/editing/managing images for both Static and regular Content Items. The editor an Administrator will be using is JCE Editor, which provides more advanced tools then Joomla’s default editor TinyMCE. The following instThu, 27 Mar 2008 13:32:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-add-mysql-access-logs/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-add-mysql-access-logs/In most versions of Linux edit the file: /etc/my.cnf Anywhere under [mysqld] add the line: log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log If log file doesn’t yet exists add and set permissions: touch /var/log/mysqld.log chown mysql:mysql /var/log/mysqld.log Restart MySQL in: cd /etc/rc.d/inThu, 21 Feb 2008 16:19:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/blog-post-on-choosing-a-programmer/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/blog-post-on-choosing-a-programmer/Nice little blog post on “How to recognize a good programmer”: http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/ Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:04:10 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/googles-social-networking-api/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/googles-social-networking-api/There’s a bit at the following blog on Google’s launch it’s new social networking api: Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network … Read MoWed, 31 Oct 2007 18:37:07 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-install-joomla-performs-component/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-install-joomla-performs-component/There’s a component from the Joomla Extension Gallery called perForms which helps you create custom forms for your Joomla powered Web sites. I’ll list below the simple steps to install perForms. The first thing to know is that perForms is … Read More Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:32:53 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/pechenkainfo-oh-those-russian-spammers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/pechenkainfo-oh-those-russian-spammers/Those Russian spammers are hard working folk. I’m starting to see lately that my visitor logs receive pretty predictable traffic patterns from what I’m going to come out and guess are Russian spammers. You’ll see a pretty standard traffic pattern, … Read Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:50:59 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/password-management-for-web-developers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/password-management-for-web-developers/There’s a few discussions on password management when building Web applications. The first post from Coding Horror entitled, “Your Probably Storing Your Passwords Incorrectly” urges developers to NOT store passwords in plain text, which is the true and correct mMon, 17 Sep 2007 12:36:26 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/125-web-designer-code-snippets/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/125-web-designer-code-snippets/There’s a blog post with 125 Web Designer resources worth taking a look at: http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.php/2007/05/18/125-code-snippets-for-web-designers/ This is not my list! I snagged the list from tutorialblog.org, I’ve just compiled it all into a single resoTue, 21 Aug 2007 11:11:21 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/5-must-have-tools-for-php-developers/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/5-must-have-tools-for-php-developers/Here’s a blog post with a nice list of PHP Tools: http://immike.net/blog/2007/08/15/5-tools-every-php-programmer-should-know-about/ I’m especially interested in Phing, a project build system, which I’ll be using for an application I’ll be building in partnThu, 16 Aug 2007 12:37:03 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/is-javascript-slowing-down-the-web/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/is-javascript-slowing-down-the-web/This guy thinks so: A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to … Read More Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:26:02 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/eric-shmidt-on-web-30/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/eric-shmidt-on-web-30/I just had to post this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eric_schmidt_defines_web_30.php Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the chTue, 07 Aug 2007 18:22:37 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/use-php-ctype_alnum-to-check-alpha-numeric-characters/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/use-php-ctype_alnum-to-check-alpha-numeric-characters/A function of PHP’s; ctype_alnum can be used to test a string for alpha numeric characters. It will count a space as non-alphanumeric (which is right), so you can use it like so: $string = “test !ng”; if ( !ctype_alnum(preg_replace(‘/[[:space:]]/’, &Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:59:56 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/multiple-version-of-j2se-updates-on-windows/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/multiple-version-of-j2se-updates-on-windows/At some point I got into my Windows Add/Remove programs and noticed around 5 versions of Java’s J2SE Runtime Environment Update. Each version is listed as so: J2SE Runtime Environment #.# Update # Each of these average around 120MB, and … Read More Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:55:09 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/experts-exchange-and-other-web-access-issues/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/experts-exchange-and-other-web-access-issues/Below is a post describing the annoying practice of Experts Exchange hiding usable content from Web visitors while at the same time providing the content to Google for spidering. The two things you can walk away with is that you … Read More Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:42:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/my-joomla-smoothgallery-lightbox-installation/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/my-joomla-smoothgallery-lightbox-installation/I needed a simple Joomla slideshow recently. After downloading, installing, and taking test drives of a few of them, I decided to go with the Joomla SmoothGallery + Lightbox Mambot. I had to make a few hacks to make it … Read More Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:09:34 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-move-a-joomla-site/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-move-a-joomla-site/These sets of steps are for moving a Joomla site from one linux server to another. This is documented mainly for my own reference, and I think it might make some assumptions, but if you’d like to give it a … Read More Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:45:28 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/some-dudes-rant-on-dropping-www/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/some-dudes-rant-on-dropping-www/Here’s a blog post attempting to make the case of dropping the www. from urls: The reason for the extra www is now a matter of history. It’s old. Deprecated. Outdated. Antiquated. Like websites that only work in Internet Explorer, … Read More Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:00:06 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/web-design-and-the-navigating-the-fold/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/web-design-and-the-navigating-the-fold/Pretty popular blog post dugg up here: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief — this myth that &hellipTue, 24 Jul 2007 12:58:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/display-joomla-sublevels-with-flatlist/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/display-joomla-sublevels-with-flatlist/I was recently trying to figure out how display sublevel menu items with the Joomla menu style set as Flatlist. I found a post here: http://www.joomlajunkie.com/read-our-blog/p,2/ You can search the page for this single posting: Oke, I did a little … Read More Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:59:28 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ssh-tricks/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ssh-tricks/A nice post from polishlinux.org outlining some SSH capabilities: http://polishlinux.org/apps/ssh-tricks/# SSH (secure shell) is a program enabling secure access to remote filesystems. Not everyone is aware of other powerful SSH capabilities, such as passwordless login, automaticSat, 21 Jul 2007 10:45:07 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/installing-jcal-pro-for-joomla/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/installing-jcal-pro-for-joomla/Going to document the installation procedure for the JCal Pro calendar extension for Joomla. This extension is by Anything-Digital.Com, published as free software under the GNU General Public License. The documentation for JCal Pro is done very nicely. I’ll follow … Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:37:31 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/prevent-html-reformatting-with-joomla-editor/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/prevent-html-reformatting-with-joomla-editor/I recently had had enough of Joomla’s default content editor reformatting the html source in my static and content items. Joomla’s default editor is TinyMCE, and it’s a pretty capable option for editing. However, I’m often editing the html directly &hellipThu, 12 Jul 2007 09:00:22 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/10-essential-habits-of-freelance-works/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/10-essential-habits-of-freelance-works/Here’s a good post worth looking at. It works the same with smaller outfits too. From the site: One of the things about being a freelance worker is that it is so free. This can be a tremendously liberating thing, … Read More Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:02:04 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/javascript-chmod-calculator/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/javascript-chmod-calculator/Below is a little CHMOD calculator I found on the Web. I took it because it was just too cute. You can link to it here: http://www.ss64.com/bash/chmod.html Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:32:34 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/16-best-loved-fonts-in-web-design/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/16-best-loved-fonts-in-web-design/“The first 6 bits of fonts on this list are considered web-safe – they’re supported by all major browsers on any platform. The fonts in the following 2 bits come pre-installed on most but not all systems. The fonts in … Read More Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:40:18 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/pdf-spams-originating-from-my-domain/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/pdf-spams-originating-from-my-domain/I’ve been receiving a large number of returned email notices lately because some spammers have been using my domain in the FROM field of their spams. It seems to be pretty common from my research, and I’m looking into it … Read More Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:49:23 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/top-7-php-security-blunders/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/top-7-php-security-blunders/An article from sitepoint: PHP is a terrific language for the rapid development of dynamic Websites. It also has many features that are friendly to beginning programmers, such as the fact that it doesn’t require variable declarations. However, many of … Read More Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:35:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/essential-tools-164-tools-for-online-success/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/essential-tools-164-tools-for-online-success/Came across this link listed a plethora of links to online tools: http://essentialkeystrokes.com/164-essential-tools-for-online-success/ Much of it’s known, but it’s nice to have the laundry list to shop from. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:10:39 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-search-across-columns-with-concat/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/mysql-search-across-columns-with-concat/Using MySQL’s Concat and Concat_Ws is your friend when trying to search two joined column/field values. This will sometimes be encountered in a simple example such as a name search, when you have two columns: 1. First Name (fname) and … Read More Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:14:29 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/link-to-an-iframe-with-joomla/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/link-to-an-iframe-with-joomla/It’s very simple to link to an iFrame with Joomla by using Wrapper and the menu item. Below are the steps to follow in order to link to an iFrame through the Joomla administrator: 1. fire up you admin 2. … Read More Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:08:11 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/increasing-number-of-home-page-items-with-joomla/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/increasing-number-of-home-page-items-with-joomla/Joomla installs with a default of only 3 to 4 items on the home page (depending on your column configuration). I found it was somewhat complicated to find the administrative screen allowing you to increase the number of content items … Read More Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:41:11 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/exclude-directory-from-tar/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/exclude-directory-from-tar/In order to exclude, skip, ignore a directory from a TAR archive do the following: tar –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash” -czvf tarball.tgz dir/ To exclude, skip, ignore multiple directories with TAR: tar –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash” Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:09:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-list-of-available-apis/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-list-of-available-apis/I’m going to keep a running list of APIs and their associated developer Web sites for some of the major internet companies out there today. I may need to go to these one day in building new tools for my … Read More Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:36:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/find-php-version-from-command-line/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/find-php-version-from-command-line/Simple task, simple command: php -v For further reading, here’s the PHP documentation on command line usage: http://www.php.net/features.commandline Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:31:08 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-article-on-frameworks/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-article-on-frameworks/These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems … Read MoTue, 12 Jun 2007 20:26:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/php-open-source-dominance/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/php-open-source-dominance/Despite the buzz around sexy new frameworks like Rails and Django, PHP is more dominant than ever. Read More: http://www.ohloh.net/articles/php_eats_rails Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:44:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/facebook-hammers-myspace-on-almost-all-key-features/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/facebook-hammers-myspace-on-almost-all-key-features/When you think of social networks you probably think of MySpace. But recently, Facebook has been gaining popularity – since it opened up beyond college users, it has enjoyed a flood of new users, boosted further by the launch of … Read More Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:49:44 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/fedora-core-5-and-captha-images/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/fedora-core-5-and-captha-images/Ran in to a couple problems working with CAPTCHAS on Fedora Core 5. The problem was simple. PHP-GD was not installed. So, just run: yum install php-gd This should give you the correct package to be up and running with … Read More Wed, 16 May 2007 19:46:12 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/next-generation-of-wifi-and-netgear/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/next-generation-of-wifi-and-netgear/The recent certification of the next generation of WiFi by WiFi Alliance known now as “Draft-N” got me to thinking about the stock performance of NetGear. This stock has had a good run since I bought it back in August. … Read More Wed, 16 May 2007 10:21:59 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-identify-a-font/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-identify-a-font/Here’s some links and information from my attempt at identifying a font. http://www.identifont.com/ http://www.whatthefont.com/ I’ve found that some of the online applications; from the question and answer service at identifont.com to the image upload service at whattWed, 02 May 2007 10:20:28 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/multi-level-user-access-with-joomla/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/multi-level-user-access-with-joomla/It’s well known that Joomla’s core user management and access tools are lacking. I have begun using JaclPlus to provide multiple levels of access to my Web site’s content. Here’s a summary description of JaclPlus from the Joomla Extensions Directory &helliFri, 20 Apr 2007 10:54:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/internet2-who-needs-web-20/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/internet2-who-needs-web-20/From the Web site: http://www.internet2.edu/ “Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and uniqueSat, 14 Apr 2007 11:10:26 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/aol-developer-resources/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/aol-developer-resources/AOL’s Developer Network looks to be the real deal. There are a number of APIs which seem to be useful. I’ll be attempting to use these services soon on upcoming projects. At the moment I’m adding this link/post to my … Read More Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:41:20 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-case-for-web-development-standards/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-case-for-web-development-standards/I’m proposing a case for Web Development Standards in project procurement. I’m noticing a glaring mistrust by clients in the consulting business due to having been burnt previously. I believe that much of this may be due to this industry … Read More Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:40:36 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/indie-music-reviews-site-launch/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/indie-music-reviews-site-launch/I’m happy to report that the site Indie Music Reviews has just been launched. This site designed under our design company Kliky.Com offered interesting insight into the use of open source content management systems, in this case Joomla. You can … Read More Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:36:51 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/finding-imagemagick-on-linux-systems/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/finding-imagemagick-on-linux-systems/I’m running ImageMagick with Fedora Core 5 and wanting to locate ImageMagick I used whereis. This does not in fact give you the location of ImageMagick as you would think. whereis ImageMagick Returns: ImageMagick: /some/path/to/ImageMagick.1.gz What you’re wanting to Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:05:24 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/installing-imagemagick-on-fedora-core-5/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/installing-imagemagick-on-fedora-core-5/Installing ImageMagick on Fedora Core 5 is as simple as using the yum utility: yum install ImageMagick There’s a little information on this here: http://www.gria.org/docs/5.0.1/user-guide/installation/services/fc5-pre.html You can then test on the command line: http://www.iTue, 27 Mar 2007 13:30:31 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/insert-images-into-joomla-content-items/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/insert-images-into-joomla-content-items/Like everything else, it seems that it takes some time to figure something out. A client of mine needed the ability to easily add images within their Joomla Content Items and more importantly, they needed to allow Joomla Authors to … Read More Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:31:42 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-open-discussion-on-email-outsourcing/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/an-open-discussion-on-email-outsourcing/I’m going to start a post here discussing email outsourcing. In my particular case, I am a small agency with my own server currently hosting my own Web sites and development work. What I would like to do is begin … Read More Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:59:14 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-mysql-sub-select-wish/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/a-mysql-sub-select-wish/After doing a lot of searching and reading I think I came up empty on a subselect I wanted to do in MySQL. Here’s what I was trying to do: tabel1 id rec 1 record 1 2 record 2 table2 … Read More Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:47:33 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-check-mysql-version-on-command-line/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/how-to-check-mysql-version-on-command-line/You can check for your version of MySQL on the command line with the following: # mysql –version or # mysql -V I tried to search checking mysql version on the command line a couple times without success, so it’s … Read More Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:45:58 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/finding-files-edited-today-on-linux/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/finding-files-edited-today-on-linux/Find all files in this directory (.) modified in the last day (-mtime -1) that aren’t directories (\! -type d) and execute the list function on them ls -l: find . -mtime -1 \! -type d -exec ls -l {} … Read More Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:32:17 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/chmod-recursively/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/chmod-recursively/To chmod recursively, meaning directories and all directories within, you’d use the -R option: chmod -R 755 From the chmod man page: -R, –recursive change files and directories recursively This is all simple enough, but for some reason I always … Read More Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:06:29 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/working-with-mysql-set-data-type/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/working-with-mysql-set-data-type/I’m getting started on a new project which is built around a table using MySQL SET data types in a number of columns. There’s some parts of this, which will most likely present a number of challenges. The table was … Read More Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:38:48 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/removing-multiple-svn-directories/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/removing-multiple-svn-directories/At one time, I had a tarred site still containing all its .svn directories. Needing to just start over and remove all .svn directories, I found the answer at Linux by Examples under the aptly named page “Remove All .svn … Read More Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:00 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/search-with-find-xargs-and-grep/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/search-with-find-xargs-and-grep/I’ve watched people search for character matches on Unix and Linux machines at times with not a lot of success. A very good way to make this search on a Unix/Linux box is to use the find, xargs, and grep … Read More Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:45:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ip-cloud/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/ip-cloud/There’s a concept I’ve been thinking of lately, which I see no reason won’t be taking off within a few years. It’s a concept of an “IP Cloud”. Technically, it’s a centralized database of ip-associated user profiles compiled by all &hellipTue, 06 Mar 2007 00:18:25 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/import-pmachine-blog-into-typepad/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/import-pmachine-blog-into-typepad/Ok, here’s a little bonus. I spent some time importing blog posts from pMachine into TypePad the other day. To import the posts into TypePad you can use the Movable type import format. This format is discussed here: http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/mtimport The &helMon, 05 Mar 2007 22:40:50 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/webalizer-with-virtual-hosts-on-fedora-core-5/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/webalizer-with-virtual-hosts-on-fedora-core-5/Quick notes on my implementation of Webalizer on multiple virtual hosts with Fedora Core 5. There is documentation that I used off the mrunix webalizer faq files. Mainly the INSTALL file. Here are the steps I followed: create ‘webalizer’ directory … Read More Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:46:52 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hiding-title-and-url-with-html-to-pdf-conversion/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/hiding-title-and-url-with-html-to-pdf-conversion/I spent a few wasted minutes today trying to figure out how to remove the page title and url in the header and footer of a pdf document when converting from HTML to PDF while using Adobe Acrobat Distiller. This … Read More Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:00:49 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/disabling-a-back-button-and-double-posts/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/disabling-a-back-button-and-double-posts/I’ve just run into an issue with a double post of data. The issue I’m having, is that I’m sending order information to NetBilling. After about 600 order, I finally ran into a user that was charged twice, for the … Read More Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:44:13 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/copy-directory-with-sub-directories-in-linux/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/copy-directory-with-sub-directories-in-linux/You can use the ‘cp’ command in Linux to copy a directory with all it’s files and accompanying sub directories with the following option: cp -r directoryname newdirectory Make sure that you do not tab through so as to create … Read More Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:23:24 GMThttps://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/on-wordpress-pretty-links/https://dev.redbridgenet.com/blog/on-wordpress-pretty-links/I’m looking at the documentation of WordPress Permalinks, more specifically, their “Pretty Permalinks“. What makes this hard is that I can’t easily find where they explain the instructions for creating the category/pagename link structure: site.com/categorSat, 03 Mar 2007 11:22:22 GMT