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Twitter: “The email confirmation link you followed is invalid. Click “Resend confirmation” from Settings for a new one.”
This is a Twitter error message that we have sometimes received when signing up a new Twitter account (usually for a client). The email confirmation link you followed is invalid…. -
How to Get Auto-Update Working on WordPress – Update WP Version & Plugins Without FTP
Whenever there’s a new version of WordPress out (which should always be installed for security reasons – (WordPress 3.4.2 is out today!)) or a new version of your WordPress website’s… -
How to Exclude Photos from a WordPress Gallery
We often use WordPress’s in-built “Gallery” function to display all of the photographs we’ve added to a WordPress post or page. This is done by adding the Gallery shortcode, into… -
How to Find & Replace in MySQL
Sometimes, we need to find and replace certain strings or pieces of data in MySQL on the fly, for example if we’ve changed a Top Level domain (TLD) and want… -
How Do You Pronounce “MySQL”?
We sometimes talk on the telephone with various technology companies, and their representatives, and there’s still confusion over the pronunciation of MySQL. After 12 years since this blog post was… -
WordPress Extensions
We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform… -
The Correct Way to Copy/Paste From Microsoft Word / OpenOffice Writer to WordPress
As we stated before, copy pasting from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer directly into WordPress’s Visual Editor is not a good idea, as this will import a lot of styles… -
How To Remove Microsoft Word Formatting From a WordPress Post
It is not a good idea to copy directly from Word Processing software, such as Microsoft Word, into WordPress’s visual editor directly, as word processors add lots of styling information… -
What’s in a Font?
When dealing with clients new and old, in web design, our client, and the people who visit their websites, can usually fall into one of two categories: 1) those who… -
SEO Tip – Why Adding Your Website to Directories isn’t All About Backlinks!
In our post completion SEO guide, and whenever people ask us how to improve their web presence, one of the things we recommend is adding a website to quality directories….