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Creating Custom WordPress ShortCodes

One awesome feature of WordPress is the ability to add in and use custom shortcodes in your posts to customize how your content looks. Shortcodes are bb-code style tags that you put right in your post, for example: [gallery] In this post I will give you a quick tutorial on how to create your own...

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How To Add Virtual Network Interfaces To Debian/Ubuntu

Linux OSes make it insanely easy to bind multiple IP addresses to a single network interface. This is mainly useful for servers, where you often have one ethernet NIC with several several static IPs. In Debian-based OSes such as Ubuntu, all it takes is a changing one file and running one command to add a...

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Why You Should Use A Password Tool

At this moment I have over 100 logins for various online accounts. There is no way I could remember all of those passwords without a password organization tool. The program I personally prefer is 1Password, mostly because of my mac roots, but there are many others such as Keepass and Lastpass. The way those programs...

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A Quick Way To Improve Your WordPress Blog’s SEO

As old as it is, the robots meta tag can have a great effect on your blog’s SEO. One little trick I’ve used for the past few years is to allow all links to be followed, but only index certain pages. With WordPress this is as easy as putting this chunk of code in your...

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How To Disable/Bypass The Gmail Spam Filters

One common complaint about gmail, especially for Google Apps users, is the fact you are pretty much forced to use their spam filtering. Generally I get good results with them, but to be honest I prefer sorting through emails myself. Most guides which go over how to disable their spam filter use something like a...

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