RL Digital

I recently got the nasty “XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location” error instead of RSS feed on two client WordPress sites.
First, I tried the Fx-RSS-Feed plugin. No luck! it identified several hundred WordPress and theme files with unnecessary whitespace. Most of the files were write-protected. Way too much [...]

Most common internet browsers only support a limited number of fonts. A client wanted to emulate the look achieved by BBC’s Later site using Wordpress. That meant using SEO unfriendly images to replace the headings or dynamic font replacement. The latter is not only SEO friendly; it is also much easier to implement.
I looked at [...]

I just finished helping a friend bring back a Sports Blog after a nasty hacker attack. Luckily, we had a backup of the database. Otherwise, we had little chance to restore the site.
Here are a few tips to keep unwanted visitors from doing damage to your blog.
Set your File Permissions Properly
Use 755 for directories, 644 [...]

eBay’s new affiliate program, eBay Partner Network, is an excellent source of income for product-related blogs and websites. It takes some skill, however, to integrate eBay links and images into content and templates. The program offers several creatives that can be pasted into sidebar widgets. However, I found them to be slow-loading as well as [...]

The introduction of sidebar widgets in WordPress have resulted in a huge time savings. Gone are the days of pasting code into sidebar.php just see your layout go wacky. The capabilities of widgets in the basic WordPress installation are, however, very limited. By default, all widgets appear wherever the sidebar is loaded within your theme. [...]

What’s up with Askimet these days? This well-known WordPress plugin has been letting foul comment spam through on two of my blogs including RL-Digital. To solve the problem, I ditched Askimet and replaced it with the Defensio plugin.
Unlike Askimet, Defensio at least has some adjustments. And, it is an adaptive filter, which will improve [...]

Genkisan, the webmaster at Ericulous.com, has just released a free lightweight WordPress theme based on Google’s popular Chrome browser. There have been several Chrome themes released by other developers. However, this is the best one that I have seen so far. The combination of a full width header and fixed width body looks great without [...]