The Best Wordpress Plugin Money Can Buy

in Wordpress | September 8, 2014

Recently this author began a project that already had a Site Admin who , aside from being a smart and well-rounded dude, was also quite well versed in Wordpress. I'd go so far as to say that Wordpress was his bread and butter and he certainly had a trick or two to share with me that I had not seen before--despite having extensive experience in...

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Error Establishing a Database Connection: Wordpress on Bluehost

in Wordpress, Bluehost | February 6, 2013

I recently got a report that a site that had been functioning for months, and whose code had been untouched, had just gone down and was displaying the horribly ambiguous Wordpress error in black text on a white screen: "Error establishing a database connection". The website was hosted by BlueHost. When this happens, it means that Wordpress is having trouble communicating with the database you...

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Removing the Wordpress Admin Bar

in Wordpress | June 13, 2012

Wordpress has its pluses and minuses, and while it's a great tool for getting a website up and running quickly and easily, it's still got loads of annoying features that are sometimes even more annoying to get rid of. One of my least favorite Wordpress features is the Wordpress Admin bar. That's the annoying dark gray bar that drops down from the top of your...

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