I tried running the awinstall.php program this morning and it refuses to run crontab. This was working Friday. Either my account changed or 1and1 disabled the ability to run crontab from PHP. UPDATE: Crontab is back! If you have a package that is supposed to have crontab and doesn’t, you have to complain. Download simple [...]

I made a plugin that can search youtube for videos and then add them as separate blog posts. This is the lazy man’s way to create content for a blog. I have been using this plugin on my www.jukester.com website for about a month and I have started getting considerable traffic. This is a surprise [...]

This program will walk you through installing awstats on 1and1 hosting accounts. This will only work for Linux hosting and the Business and Developer Plans. Unfortunately, the beginner and home plans do not allow setting cron jobs so the stats cannot be gathered. The program copies the awstats program from SourceForge.net and installs it in [...]

bbPress did not work well for me and is a bear to integrate into WordPress. I tried a few other forum plugins that failed miserably. I don’t want to have a forum separate from my blogs and pages, so I did not even try some of the other choices. It occurred to me that WordPress [...]

I release a new version of my Open in new window Plugin. I think that users were confused that there were no configuration options. I made a configuration page with no options just to explain that the plugin was working and installed correctly. It also has a little begging at the end for links to [...]

I got this working – see how to download the Simple 1and1 Awstats Installer. I worked for a while and made an Awstats installer for 1and1 web hosting clients. It only works for the business and developer accounts, because it needs to create a cron job to read the logs every night at midnight. I [...]

I wonder if there is a widget that only displays to people coming in through Google or Bing search. I could make a list of similar posts based on the search items in the search.

So far my test WordPress MU site gets nothing but Spam. I can tell if it is spam before the blog gets very far, but the registration is a klugey process. I want to have users fill out all their information and some extra data. I then want to see a list of these with [...]

I installed the new WordPress version of Buddypress. Early versions required WPMU, but the new one works in straight WP. I also downloaded the Template helper plugin. I got it working on a couple of blogs. I had to tweak the template additions to work with my templates, but otherwise it seemed to work. There [...]

I downloaded and ran a few plugins that were supposed to do threat scans and I was not that pleased. I wrote my own plugin that scans for the problems that I found in a blog that I just cleaned up. It works well, but it is not ready for prime time. I’d like to [...]