Sidebar Message WordPress plugin
February 19th, 2012Sidebar Message is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display messages in your WordPress sidebar that only appear on specific posts or pages. Messages can be fully customized using the visual editor. There is also the option to add an eye-catching icon to the message.
Converting from Serendipity to WordPress
February 16th, 2012
This post is aimed at advanced users. If you lack the technical skills to carry out this conversion I can do it for you for a small fee. Please contact me for more details.
Serendipity is a great CMS and I’ve been using it for a long time. But times have changed and the WordPress admin area is just amazing. It makes blogging so much easier that I absolutely had to convert my s9y blog to WordPress. To make the conversion I needed a suitable importer script and, indeed, I found one online. It’s an opensource script that a bunch of different individuals have contributed to.
Installing MaraDNS on CentOS Linux
February 6th, 2012
MaraDNS is a lightweight alternative opensource DNS server for Linux. MaraDNS has some really interesting characteristics:
- Low memory usage – On an OpenVZ VPS ( no vswap ) MaraDNS uses about 5MB of RAM as opposed to 90-100MB for the venerable BIND.
- Separation of recursive nameserver and authoritative nameserver – If you only need an authoritative nameserver for your domain names you can skip starting up the recursive nameserver service.
- Ease of installation – MaraDNS is easier to install than other alternative nameservers like tinydns.
- Excellent documentation – The documentation on the MaraDNS site is quite good at explaining things in simple language.
So let’s take a look at how we can get started with MaraDNS on CentOS Linux.
Ajax Whois WordPress Plugin
January 29th, 2012
Ajax Whois for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to add a domain name lookup form to your WordPress blog posts or pages.
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Finding out disk space usage using Linux shell
January 28th, 2012
Finding out your disk space usage using the shell or command line in Linux is easy once you know how. This article takes a look at the different commands that tell you your disk space usage at different levels of the file system i.e. from entire disk volumes/partitions all the way down to individual files and directories.
