Archive for category Web Development
access database godaddy 500 error
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on November 9, 2011
A while back I moved a database from one GD hosting account to another just copy/paste and I couldn’t figure out why my code stopped working and was giving me a 500 error! It was a junior mistake it turns out. Because I copy/pasted the access_db folder with the database inside, it inheirited the permissions [...]
Modularity Lite WordPress theme change table row background color light blue
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on October 5, 2011
If you’re using Modularity Lite WordPress theme, you may notice that if you use a table on one of your pages or posts, every even row has a blue background. While this may be a desirable action sometimes, it’s not all the time. Here’s how to get rid of it: Goto your hosting account and [...]
Delete the description from an Issuu pdf document RSS
Posted by Mitch in Internet, Web Development on October 3, 2011
Let’s say you have an RSS feed of some PDF documents on Issuu and you want the feed to be sans-description. Issuu doesn’t let you upload/save a PDF without a description, and if you edit the document after upload it won’t let you save it that way either unless you have a description. But….if you [...]
Fatal error: Call to undefined function require_wp_db() wp-settings.php on line X
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on May 18, 2011
In a first for this website, we (and one other site I had hosted in the same account) were brought down for about a day while I had to fix a little issue with a recent update to WordPress. I went from version 3.0.1 to version 3.1.2 and as I always do, I used the [...]
Convert ODBC to OLE connection string
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on November 30, 2010
This need came about when a database of mine stopped working with a Godaddy hosting account (kept getting a 500 error). The page is ASP and the database is Access 2000 with a dsn-less connection string. After their support messed with it, the page came back up, but now it had this intermittent connection error: [...]
Which website visitors can’t Google Analytics track?
Posted by Mitch in code, Internet, Web Development on November 5, 2010
1. Attention Deficit Web Surfers. As then-United States Senator Ted Stevens will tell you, the internet is a series of tubes. Tubes filled with water naturally in which Web Surfers play. Some of these people have a hard time letting a webpage fully load before they decide to click onto the next image or page [...]
ASPMail not working on Planet Online hosted website
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on October 27, 2010
A client noticed they weren’t receiving any more emails from their website form so I tested out the ASPMail function and it was throwing an error: Mail send failure. Error was Cannot create file This error is due to an issue with the TMP or TEMP directory on your IIS server. Refer here for more details. [...]
Bulk delete wordpress posts
Posted by Mitch in Uncategorized, Web Development on October 20, 2010
I had a project a while back which involved adding thousands of text files to a WordPress account as new posts. In the process of testing the Import step using CSV Importer I would have the full import fail because some of the files were corrupt or of a different format or invalid characters which I [...]
How to stop a Flash video that keeps autoplaying
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on October 6, 2010
No real trick here, you probably just need to set Autoplay to false using the Component Inspector in Adobe Flash. If it’s true when you export the swf then no matter the parameter you set, it will continue to autoplay.
Sorry, your comment has not been accepted error
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on May 6, 2011
This error is due to having your Cookie Privacy settings too high! In Internet Explorer, you can set the Privacy settings under Tools–>Internet Options–>Privacy tab. Either set the slider to Medium or add the site under sites and click ALLOW. This will enable the WordPress plugin: Cookies for Comments to drop a cookie onto the [...]
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