Yoast SEO – Recalculating SEO Scores Hangs

Just a quick note about the Recalculating SEO Scores tool in the Yoast SEO plugin 3.0.6. We tried running this as part of an larger upgrade in our staging service but it hung so we needed to kill it. Working on the assumption that the hang was due to a quirk with the...

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Suffusion Theme Custom CSS Ignored?

If you find your Suffusion theme custom CSS stops working then this post may help. We recently updated a website using Suffusion 4.4.7 to Wordpress to 4.3.1 from 4.1.8. After doing this there was a problem with the display of the website in particluar the NextGEN...

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Add State Drop Down List to WPEC

The plugin WP eCommerce (WPEC) by default provides regions for only Canada and the US. This means other countries users have to manually type in their state or territory name at checkout. See how to add extra states and territories to the checkout page.

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PHP 5.5 Plugin Issues

This is just a short 'heads up' to anyone running either of the plugins NextGEN 1.9.3 (an old version) or Statpress 1.4.3 (not updated for 12 months) that neither appear to work since my host upgraded my sites to PHP 5.5. This isn't to say that there is any fault with...

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WP SlimStat not so Slim?

Review of the performance impact of the WP SlimStat Version 3.6.1 plugin on our WordPress website. After moving several websites to a new server we were looking for a new WordPress statistics plugin to replace the kstats / kstats-reloaded / statpress-visitors plugins...

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WordPress SEO and WPEC Blank Products Page

In the process of upgrading a test e-Commerce website I came across a small issue with the WordPress SEO Plugin by Joost de Valk and the WP e-Commerce Plugin by Instinct Entertainment / GetShopped. The site was running with the following software versions, WordPress...

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NextGEN Gallery Thumbnail Centering

As requested on the NextGEN support fourm here is the setup used to produce the grid view layout for the NextGEN galleries on the Japanese Arts Gallery website. Please note that the css below applies to the gallery thumbnails (eg...

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WP Shopping Cart NextGEN Gallery AddOn Review

This post offers a short review of our recent experience using the WP Shopping Cart Addon for the NextGEN Gallery. The addon is a Wordpress plugin (WP Simple Paypal Shopping cart) and a template file which allows you to add to your NextGEN gallery a simple shopping...

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Scanning HTML and PHP files for text

How to search for text strings in files using the WinOne® Command Language Interpreter (CLI). There are a lot of questions asked in Wordpress forums about how to find which file to edit to change the appearance or behavour of Wordpress themes or plugins. To identify...

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NextGEN and Canonical URLs

When using the NextGEN gallery plugin you should check that none of your gallery posts or pages are incorrectly begin flagged as 'do not index' by WordPress automatically setting canonical URL's. It appears that on some NexGEN gallery sites WordPress is using the...

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