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WordPress Carrington Themes
After much struggling with making edits to a nifty looking theme for WordPress that uses the Carrington platform, I would completely advise against using these themes if you plan on making changes to them for SEO purposes or whatever else reason. It’s so far from WordPress convention it’s not even funny. In order to change [...] -
Moved Magento Install and Now It Redirects to Old Location Still
Did you get everything working perfectly on a development server, zipped it up and moved it else where? And now for whatever reason you keep getting redirected to the old URL even though you’ve already done the following: cleared cache re-ran all indices set the proper base URL for both secure and unsecure in database [...] -
Yahoo Organic Search Results to be Powered By Bing
Looks like no more messing around with site explorer, and all things will be handled in Bing webmaster tools. Guess I better get on installing that Silverlight plugin so that the Bing webmaster tools will actually provide me with something useful Read the full article at Yahoo’s Official Blog -
New Google Image Search
Anyone else noticed that Google image search today is a bit different? Now, when you search for an image, it’s shown with a giant list of thumbnails and you can just keep scrolling an scrolling and it advances the “pages” by itself! No more clicking on pages individually, very cool!! -
Google PageRank Checkers All Down
Interesting, all the Google PageRank checkers all seems to be down currently. Something is afoot! -
.CO TLD Domains
So, the .CO TLD domain names became available yesterday. Personally, I don’t see the value in these and the .COM’s won’t be replaced anytime soon here in North America. The way I see it, North America will stick with the three letter domain suffices while the rest of the world go towards .co.xx, kind of [...] -
New Bing Webmaster Tools
Just noticed today that Bing Webmaster Tools has an entirely new interface. Looks like there’s a Silverlight plugin for FireFox as well. Looks pretty ok so far, might look even fancier than Google’s Web Master Tools. Stay tuned for more info… *UPDATE* hmm… looks like all the sitemaps (feeds) that I had submitted before are [...] -
Magento Product Image Shows in Admin But Not in Frontend
So, you’ve got this problem and you’ve tried clearing the cache, index, etc. Did you by chance try to import this manually through your own script? Try checking that you have set write access to the media folder. I had this once and product image was showing just fine in the Admin, but no images [...] -
How Do I WordPress
That’s a pretty good question. There’s two ways of hosting a wordpress blog, either on wordpress’s website or on your own domain. I’ll cover hosting wordpress on your own domain here. First, if you’re hosting your own website you’ll need to download wordpress from http://wordpress.org/ Extract the files and upload to your web hosting provider. [...] -
Products Not Showing Up in Magento
Did you add a product to a category in Magento and you’re certain that the root category, website, store, and store view is correct, but you still don’t see your product showing up? The absolute most common fix for this is to re-run your index. Go to System->Index Management and run the whole lot again [...]