Automatically repair and backup the CMS or blog database
There are endless ways to backup your blog's or your CMS' database. Some use platform specific plugins, some run thing manually, many - unfortunately - don't bother backing up their databases at all. If you don't back up your database - you should, it's Continue Reading →
Drupal : When Cron jobs do not complete and Cron jobs tips
Cron jobs are an essential part of most Drupal installations. Cron jobs take care of Drupal maintenance, synchronization, pinging, spam and other important aspects. Every module implements it own cron hook and cron goes and executes the function. It sometimes happens Continue Reading →
PHP accelerators : Give your sites a performance boost
Site slow? account CPU overloaded? Make sure you're running PHP accelerators on your server. Recently, a colleague has been having trouble with his site, as his medium-size Drupal website has been running extremely slow and overloading the server hosting account. Continue Reading →
Israeli Blogosphere Awards: My favorite Israeli blogs
Blogerim.net is hosting the "Best (self-hosted) Israeli blog awards". I've been quietly following the Israeli self-hosted blogosphere for the past few months and have come to appreciate the growing number of quality bloggers in the small Israeli Continue Reading →
Israeli Problogging and the Israeli blogosphere – Dakar as a beginning
There are no probloggers in Israel. Not yet, anyway, and so the question of the Israeli blogosphere remains whether an Israeli problogger is even possible with a small market of about 3-4m Internet users, most of whom think blogs are for kids and that they Continue Reading →
The dark side of Google – The SERP drop effect of a domain penalty
Google's penalties are the dark side of running a website. Google's penalties cause such a drop in SERP that traffic goes down to almost nothing. There are several kinds of penalties that are speculated to be cause by various reasons. There's the -30 penalty, Continue Reading →
Promoting the Israeli independent blogosphere – the WordPress SEO review project
Got a blog? Need a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) review for your WordPress blog? This post is a studycase showing an overall SEO analysis for selected WordPress blogs. Dakar, a blogger who's leading the WordPress based community in Israel, started to offer Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Using excerpt, robots.txt and noindex meta-tag for duplicate content in index, archives and categories
WordPress blogs have duplicate content issues, and one of them is allowing reading the same content on both the posts, index page, archives and categories webpages. To avoid search engine penalty it is important to optimize your WordPress installation so that Continue Reading →
PHP session cookies : A global Drupal login problem fix
Drupal has made it to 5.1 without dealing with one serious PHP problem of handling session cookies, causing various Drupal login problems in different configurations. I've been following Drupal forums for a long time and I've never seen a more wide-spread annoying Continue Reading →
Top methods for keeping your WordPress installation and WordPress plugins up-to-date
Keeping your WordPress installation and plugins updated is an important yet annoying task. Following and the news on WordPress releases, monitoring the versions for the dozens of plugins installed, and then going through the upgrade can be very time Continue Reading →