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Find LunarPages MySQL Database IP Address

February 16, 2010

Most shared hosting services store your files and databases on a the same server with the same IP address. However, LunarPages has recently stopped that practice and keeps some people’s databases on different servers with different IP address. This makes it more difficult to install Wordpress on LunarPages.

If you’re a LunarPages customer and trying to figure out what the IP address of your databases is, it’s very likely NOT the same as the IP address of your Lunar Pages Control Panel (LPCP).

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How to Handle Comment Spam Akismet Doesn’t Catch

October 23, 2009

Akismet and other spam plugins are great for catching 99% of spam. But sometimes spambots get creative and only leave http://link. Other times, it’s the person who’s spammy.

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Tutorial: Adding Gravatars to Cutline Themes

April 13, 2009

I’ve since transitioned to Thesis, but this tutorial works well.

Despite the growing internet presence of Chris Pearson’s Thesis, his older themes still remain popular, including the Cutline theme which I’ve modified for this blog.

I recently decided to add gravatars to my theme, so I launched a search for anyone’s tips on best positioning of the gravatar code within Cutline. Since I didn’t find anything, I did it on my own–but I thought I’d share with you exactly which code to put where to get gravatars on Cutline positioned like mine. As a bonus, a small section at the bottom shows you how to create a add a custom default gravatar for your site. You’ll see that commenters without gravatars get a ghosted black-and-white BC avatar.

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Tutorial on Using Fantastico to Install Wordpress

November 14, 2008

I’ve created a tutorial on using Fantastico to install Wordpress. It only takes a few minutes to get Wordpress up and running on your site. Learn how!

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Easy Wordpress .htaccess 301 Redirect

October 17, 2008

Moving your Wordpress blog from one domain to another? You can redirect all the old domain’s urls with three lines of code!

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How to Change the Name of Your Wordpress Theme

September 12, 2008

Editing a Wordpress theme and unsure how to make it look different from the original one? Some quick tips on changing the theme’s name and screenshot!

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Quick Fix for Unluved Commenters

September 10, 2008

CommentLuv wasn’t detecting my most recent posts. Fortunately, a friend pointed me in the right direction and now CommentLuv recognizes my posts when I leave a comment. It only took a second to fix.

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