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Lost WPMU Admin password

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What do you do when you’ve lost your Admin password and theĀ  php_mail() ain’t working? Why, you just manually change your password in the DB. But how do ya do that, Curt? You can’t just pull up phpmyadmin and look because the password is encrypted… it’s a bunch of gibberish. It’ll take your crappy Amiga [...]

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Site Realign, New Host and other randomness

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Site Realign
So if you’re seeing this, then you’ve obviously seen the site realign. Nothing has changed; I just combined a couple pages into one and moved some posts around. I have an issue with the table of contents though. The author of this theme used a nonstandard function to call the pages. It does many [...]

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Taking Criticism to Heart

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I run a sports blogging site. It’s based on the Wordpress Multi-user. It was actually my introduction to all things wordpress. It was also my introduction to PHP, MySQL and a whole host of other stuff. Trust me, this isn’t the ideal way to learn how to admin a blog. I was stupid and overconfident. [...]

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Empowering Your End Users

When ever someone asks me to build a web site for them, I generally do my best to get out of it. It’s not that I don’t want to build their site. It’s not that I don’t want to maintain the site. I just don’t want to charge them for it… To the people who [...]

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Drop Your @telco.webmail

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I work for a school district, so I get a lot of odd questions. A client - err coworker - needed help with a mailing list and her organization’s @bellsouth.net account. Having worked there before, I knew that what she wanted was impossible. Their mail server ‘mail.bellsouth.net’ can handle emails in 200 round bursts. But [...]

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