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  • Easy Fix: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

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    Problem (Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance) Sometimes when you update plugins on your WordPress.org based site you might get the following error: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. Or you might have visited your website dashboard and seen the same error message. This can cause panic when you first see it, however…

  • Enabling Root Access in OSX (via Terminal command ‘su’)

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    Learn how to enable root access in OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) but hopefully it should work in other variants). After you complete the steps listed you will be able to use the su command at the Terminal (command line). I have found this most useful when installing tools that can only be installed via the command…

  • What is a Website?

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    One of the best metaphors for describing a website is the world of books. What is a Website? What is a Web Page? A website is made up of a series of web pages. In this way, a website can be thought of as a book, and a web page like the page of a…

  • Automatically Check for PHP Syntax Errors

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    I was developing some PHP code the other day for a WordPress website and got interrupted. I left halfway through editing a PHP file. When I came back I had lost my train of thought and left a simple syntax error in the file. In a momentary lapse of reason I FTP’ed the file back…

  • How to Use Multiple CSS Stylesheets with a WordPress Child Theme

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    Why Multiple Stylesheets? It’s better to have separate stylesheets for different areas of styling in order to make the codebase more maintainable and easier to manage. For example, if you use a particular plugin to display tables and later you start using a different plugin to do this, then you will have to find which…

  • Only Allow one IP Address on Website (.htaccess)

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    Requirements: This is for people using the Apache web server who have a basic understanding of coding or configuring a system. Overview Sometimes it’s useful to only allow a single IP address to access a website. I use this when I’m developing a website that has only just been mapped to a domain. I still want to test…

  • Stop Unwanted Phone Calls (Landlines)

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    Unwanted calls can be distressing or time consuming. Some calls might be malicious, often by someone you know. Other calls might be marketing or sales calls. In this article we show you how to block unwanted calls. Obviously there are two types of phone, namely landline and mobile. We are discussing landlines in this article.…

  • Types of Tweets and where they appear

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    Someone asked me today about the different types of tweets you can send and where they go. The different types of tweets There are three types of tweets we will be dealing with in this article: Normal tweets – you make a standard tweet with no mention of someone else’s twitter name Replies – you…

  • Using your tablet as a laptop

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    Tablets are useful for everything except word processing and spreadsheets. For example the tablet version of the Microsoft Office suite still hasn’t managed to be as useful or as usable as the desktop version. Typing on a Tablet Touchscreen devices like tablets and phones aren’t as good as regular keyboards for activities that require lots of typing such as:…