This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
Today we went for a walk from Glasgow Harbour along to Kelvingrove park. We entered Kelvingrove park through the gate where Dumbarton road changes to Argyl street, at Partick bridge, to the west of the river kelvin. A quick walk up the west bank of the river kelvin takes you Read more…
This is a basic openvas tutorial for beginners. I will explain a little of how to use openvas web ui to perform a test of your systems. It will give you the basic options for using metasploit msfconsole to run an openvas vulnerability scan. You will also learn how to Read more…
Here is a selection of podcasts I subscribe to [RSS] PARANORMAL PODCAST [RSS] Practical Backpacking™ Podcast [RSS] Sasquatch Chronicles [RSS] The Unexplained with Howard Hughes [RSS] The Gralien Report [RSS] The Bigfoot Field Guide [RSS] The Linux Link Tech Show Itunes Feed [RSS] Ubuntu Podcast » MP3 [RSS] Coder Radio Read more…
I have released multiloquent – the theme I use for jonathansblog to the public: you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/themes/multiloquent I have a github if you want a cutting-edge version (but it will be broken frequently) https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent This is the readme.txt for multiloquent theme v9 Multiloquent html5 / bootstrap theme Read more…
This is a very cool thing I just found in safari on osx mavericks. if you have your twitter account linked to your os [it asks you the first time you log in to twitter in safari] you will have a section in the sidebar when you open a new Read more…
As you probably know, I use reeder on my iphone (and on my mac) to fetch all my rss feeds that I recently moved to feedly from google reeder. the fetching of posts has always been a bit slow for me when im trying to get the latest news right Read more…
The rss feed for jonathansblog is changing. it will now be accessible from /feed rather than the old feedburner feed. please update your feedly :)
This post will show you how to subscribe to a pocast in the podcasts app for ios using the url of a podcast feed, rather than looking it up in the podcasts directory. its not obvious, but if you paste [or type] the url of the podcast feed into the Read more…
Basecamp is an excellent tool to help manage projects. any type of project. they have an account that lets you have one project for free – this post explains adding basecamp todos and milestones from email :) one problem with basecamp is the time it takes to setup todo lists and Read more…
Automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social Read more…
WordPress ultimate seo guide – This post is about making your wordpress perform better in search engine result pages. WordPress is pretty good, but its not perfect. this will tell you how to make it stronger. 1) what is seo? Making sure that your pages have the best chance of Read more…
Automatic facebook and twitter status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to facebook and twitter every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social network accounts the first Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
This post will show you how to get your basecamp ical in google calendar (and onto your iphone, mac, etc) goto basecamp goto the main dashboard goto the bottom of the page copy the link for the iCalendar goto google calendar goto the bottom of the left hand bar goto Read more…
this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; Read more…
This is a short nessus tutorial to help you get to grips with nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner. Nessus can scan your assets for network security vulnerabilities. Nessus allows you to be proactive in securing your base so that all your base belongs to you :D Nessus tutorial quick Read more…
Today I am going to share some html css and wcag v2 aaa validation tools with you. these things will help to make sure your site performs as well as it can, and as fast as it can. google have announced that they are now counting the loading time of Read more…
Update: ping.fm is pretty much dead. use the twitterfeed method here instead automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every Read more…
ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable google analytics – provides an excellent way to track all the users of your site, what pages they go to, where they go, how long they stay on your site, Read more…
Ive been using chrome for mac dev build for a while now, its stable enough, and has themes and extensions. it doesnt look as good as the beta for the mac, which integrates nicely with the snow leopard UI, but there is a theme available that will fix that. as Read more…
ive noticed a few things wrong with my site – the daily unique visitors were down by 17%, the theme wasnt quite right, the site was pretty slow. i did a few cleanups on the site code, enabled gzip caching of javascript and css, took off some images that were Read more…
Well, the F1 season is all but over. Im watching the qualifying for the brazilian GP. I suddenly thought that have not really tried to get any cool f1 stuff fro my ipod touch. time to scour the net. im writing this as I scour. I have found this – Read more…
This one is pretty cool. ive been looking for a decent way to get all my feeds to my mac. I have them all setup in google reader and was thinking about putting them all into mail.app (which im still working on) – but untill then I offer an intermediate Read more…
Well. I have to make a new website. I actually have about ten to do. we are making big changes to our system. we are taking all of the code out of the docroot and are having a few classes that extend the classes inside the core of the system Read more…
So, as you can probably see I have a new timeline. it is setup to get the rss feed from this site, as well as the feeds from my twitter, youtube flickr and last.fm accounts, and put them all on the timeline, kinda like plurk does. its a bit large, Read more…
So, by the time you are reading this songbird 1.0 will have been released. http://getsongbird.com Its actually the 27th November just now, and I have received an email from Ethan Bauman at songbirdsnest.com telling me that they are going to release the 1.0 build and asking me if I would Read more…
ive added a few coolthings to my site –
firstly i upgraded the wordpress and all the plugins, which went really smoothly, for once..
then i re-designed the header so that the rss feed is in the to left, and i added my last.fm radio player thingy, i need to do a bit of hacking to get it to not re-load the player every time you go to a new page, i also need to fix the front page a bit – its becoming a bit stale, also the tutorials page looks crap, i need to re-design it so that all the tutorials are displayed in the boxes at the bottom, and not all the random entries from the categories – that should only take a few minutes to do, the radio player thing will take longer.
im not to keen on the position of the search bar thingy, it could be neater.
also i need to make the searcher use google search cos its better, and i can get some money for the searches that you lot do on my site.
i found that all my feeds were crap. my hosting provider had added a bit of code to count the pageviews, but i dont use my hosting providers stats, i use google stats, so i had to remove their code, which was added at run time, it was a hidden option in their control panel that took me ages to find !
Syncing photos between social networks is hard to do. i think I might just make a crude little app that bruteforces its way to do it, but I dont really have the time. though with all the API’s out there I could sell it for a fiver a time and Read more…