Archive for July, 2009

How to install WordPress on H-Sphere – Cartika hosting

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We no longer recommend Cartika Hosting and would actively discourage people from using H-Sphere as their web hosting control panel. H-Sphere makes migrations difficult and expensive, even within H-Sphere.

Installing WordPress to Cartika hosting is no different than installing it on any other web host. The focus of this article is in showing the specific sequence of steps which needs to be done in order to quickly and properly install WordPress in Cartika's Control panel.

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WordPress SEO and Dedicated IP’s

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

One of our Typepad to WordPress clients would really like to rank higher with her nice new WordPress weblog. She is hosted at Bluehost.com. Her IP number is 66.147.242.185. I ran a quick check to find out what other websites are on that IP.

Here is just a partial list of her neighbours:

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New Foliopress WYSIWYG version

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Foliopress WYSIWYG is our WYSIWYG editor for WordPress with custom image management tool. We just released a new version - 0.9.3. It includes some minor improvements, but the most important feature it the Paste Rich Text Mode button. What's that all about?

When you are pasting some text into the editor it will be striped of all the formating - that is called plain text pasting. This kind of pasting is good when you are pasting text from some website and you want to get just the clean text with no ugly <span>, <div> or some other tags which may change the appearance of the text in your article in a bad way and make a mess in your HTML code.

But sometimes you want to paste all the text with original formating and maybe with some images in it. Or you just want to copy some parts of the article you are writing. In that case just press Rich Text Pasting Mode button.

Rich Pasting Mode button
Rich Text Pasting Mode button

It's a new addition to the toolbar. This will bypass the text cleaning mechanism, so be careful when you are pasting from various word processing programs.

Please note that a popup window will appear in Firefox and Safari when pasting in plain text mode as there is no way for these browsers to access the clipboard data. We can't deal with it. Developers of Firefox and Safari have a good reason why not to support cliboard access in their browsers - it's a security risk. Imagine that any site can get your clipboard data without this restriction.

There's no popup in Rich Text Pasting Mode.

More about Foliopress WYSIWYG & download

Foliopress WYSIWYG changelog

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Mirror, mirror what is the best FTP client of them all?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

If you are tired of paying for FTP client like CuteFTP or WS_FTP Professional, but haven't been able to find a good replacement, well, you obviously haven't found FileZilla. It's free, it's open source and it's great.

FileZilla is built on wxWidgets, which is my preferable choice for C++ Cross-platform toolkit, allowing it to be compiled on many operating systems. Ready made binaries are available for almost all the major platforms. On Windows, install is very easy, but this may vary on different platforms.

filezilla main
filezilla main

User interface is pretty intuitive. You can traverse the server and your computer without any problems, with mouse and keyboard as well. Site manager manages you FTP, FTPS, SFTP connections with ease.

IT | No comments