When the WordPress comment option is abused by spammers, it becomes a real pain in the "@ss". With thousands spam reactions, disabling -and removing- WordPress comments is the only way to go. Here is how to disable WordPress comments in both the WordPress Dashboard interface and in your MySQL database. As a bonus, I show you how to re-enable comments too!
Learn how to perform disk cleanup in Windows Server. Gain gigabytes of free disk space by cleaning up Windows Update-, Service Pack-, and hotfix installations. Analyze and clean WinSxs, install cleanmgr in Windows Server 2012 Core, or move SoftwareDistribution folder.
How to add DNS servers -or resolvers- to a Windows Server network adapter, or interface using WMI and the netsh command. This one is quite old but may come in handy sometimes. In this example we use Google's Public DNS server addresses and localhost to add as DNS Servers on our server.
After installing a new Windows Server 2012 R2 machine with the DHCP role enabled, adding a DHCP server used a 169.254.x.x IP address as server name. Instead of the servers hostname...
Explicit Congestion Notification is an extension to the Internet Protocol and to the Transmission Control Protocol and is defined in RFC 3168. ECN allows end-to-end notification of network congestion without dropping packets. Windows Server 2012 is the first Windows Server version to enable Explicit Congestion Notification, or ECN, in the TCP stack. This is also known as ECN Capability in Windows.
Joomla websites using the Googlemaps plugin for Joomla are actively abused as open proxy for launching Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The problem with the Joomla Googlemaps plugin lies in the fact anyone can execute cURL HTTP requests to remote websites.
How to set up a global Geolocation DNS load balancing Varnish Cache Content Delivery Network with Bind9, geo-ip database, Varnish Cache and DigitalOcean. DIY High-Availability for your website!
Learn how to set a good PHP realpath_cache_size and optimize your PHP performance. . Increasing realpath_cache_size might greatly improve PHP performance, as PHP states: "this value should be increased on systems where PHP opens many files." Setting a correct value for PHP realpath_cache_size can greatly improve PHP performance and optimize WordPress - and other CMS's - websites.
Sometimes you may want to display commas in tag names. For example if you have a business directory listing and want to create one single taxonomy (tag name) "cafe, restaurant, bar". This post shows you how to create a filter in your functions.php file to display WordPress tags with a comma, enjoy!
Replace all instances of a string in WordPress using phpMyAdmin and SQL statements, or a WordPress plugin. Learn how to replace content in your MySQL database in bulk with MySQL REPLACE.