SoccerNews.com is a high traffic WordPress site with over 600,000 unique visitors and over 2,000,000 page impressions per month. It is a content republisher and aggregator, presenting custom XML feeds for (what else?) soccer news from all over the world. The site has a very active user base, providing content in the forms of editorials […]
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I have been looking for a simple solution to create and manage “dashboard” type charts on a website. Something that would produce editable graphs, accessible content for screen readers, and fit into a responsive design. Chartist.js is a simple and independent library to create SVG charts in the DOM. Various plugins are available to extend […]
Punktastic.com is a community powered site that covers punk music in Britain, but is poised to go worldwide. They cover punk and hardcore shows and festivals, and provide album reviews, video interviews and more. With a growing audience and user base, Punktastic needed a more reliable and robust web server, so they made the move […]
Chris Gilligan Web Developer, Information Architect, Web Server Administrator, Media Producer web • video • print chris@chrisgilligan.net chrisgilligan.com I design and produce information and communication media for university, corporate, small business, manufacturing and non-profit clients: web sites Information architecture and design for open source content management systems Front-end UI design, HTML, PHP, LESS Linux Apache […]
…Recursively chmod only directories find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; Similarly, recursively set the execute bit on every directory chmod -R a+X * The +X flag sets the execute bit on directories only Recursively chmod only files find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Recursively chmod only PHP files (with […]
I recently upgraded my WordPress theme to WooThemes Canvas 5.x, and I found that some of the icons were not rendering, but were showing a letter or integer instead. I dug into the code and found that these icons are now delivered via @font-face webfonts. Meanwhile, I’m working on a client’s e-commerce site with Google […]
Here are some websites and resources that may be useful for a redesign of UTC.edu. Higher Education sites College of Southern Nevada Case Study: Acquia | College of Southern Nevada | Acquia Engage Award 2016 Finalist 68 percent increase in page views 60 percent decrease in bounce rate 90 percent increase in mobile visitors CSN.edu […]
VacantServer WordPress sites are getting hammered with bad logins and probes. We’ve implemented a plugin to log failed login attempts to syslog, and a Fail2Ban filter for the same. If you run these on RedHat, you’ll need some additional configuration info… here it is: WordPress login failure regex (error_log):
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^%(__prefix_line)sAuthentication failure for .* from <HOST>$ |
Apache nohome regex (error_log):
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[[]client <HOST>[]] File does not exist: .*/~.* |
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If you don’t need the power of a full-blown Content Management System, and want a site that’s easier to manage, WordPress is a great choice. It’s just right for small businesses and non-profit or service organizations. WordPress grows increasingly powerful, with an active development community building amazing plugins and themes that add to the software’s […]