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Bootstrap 5 Columns In a Row

Today I needed a solution to a problem, my designer had designed a fantastic category page for a clients eCommerce store, the category page featured rows of 5 products, which on firth thinking I thought I could get away with maybe 4 in a row or perhaps even 6 in a row. Unfortunately 4 meant […]

Protecting WordPress wp-admin server wide in WHM with cPanel, ModSecurity and ConfigServer Firewall

As a server administrator I find it a real nightmare securing and monitoring various WordPress installations, and one of my life goes has always been to protect systems such as WordPress from the core of the server rather than relying on manually modifying .htaccess or code, or using plugins (as would be the case for […]

Deleting stats for awstats, analog and webalizer across all WHM accounts with SSH

I run and manage several large servers for WebDesires and recently I was doing my usual bi-annually cleanup of clients accounts to lower overall disk usage across the servers and as part of this cleanup I realised that awstats, analog and webalizer were using up allot of space across all the accounts. Now in my case […]

Override rel="canonical" in WordPress

We have two blogs that we actively use for developer related content, this blog “deano.me” which is my personal blog and WebDesires Blog. The problem is that sometimes posts are relevant for both websites and anyone who knows about Google and their duplicate content policy knows how serious it can be to do this incorrectly. […]

Increase max upload file size PHPMyAdmin - cPanel / WHM

on cPanel / WHM servers for some reason PHPMyAdmin has a ridiculously low upload_max_filesize setting of usually 50MB, this makes PHPMyAdmin useless for large SQL imports, especially with systems such as Magento where databases can be 900MB+. Fortunately you can increase this limit to something more useful, to be able to do this though you […]

PHP & Issues with Smart Quotes

I consider myself a seasoned PHP Web Developer, with over 10 years working in the field and with all the care and attention I’ve given Web Development over those 10 years it frustrated me recently to come across a problem that a client was having which baffled me, seriously baffled me! My client has a […]

How to disable reviews on a facebook page

A client of mine recently had a serious problem with Facebook and reviews left by visitors to his business Facebook page, he was getting bombarded by his competitors who were leaving bad reviews that he felt were negatively impacting his business. With Facebook there is now no way to hide the reviews tab or disable it […]

Smooth Scrolling Website in iOS - CSS

A client recently approached me wanting some fixes and improvements to his responsive website, his main problems were with mobile view of the website where things needed cleaning up and streamlining. While in the meeting he mentioned that another site was scrolling really nice in Safari on iPhone, but his site was sluggish and looked […]

PHP inside HTML files using .htaccess

Recently I was trying to fix a website that needed to run PHP script from within HTML files, the site originally used a htaccess rule to set up html files so they were executed just like php files but this had stopped working. The problem is, there are many different methods for defining file extensions […]

Increase PHP memory limit with ini_set

As a developer you will constantly need to increase the memory that is allowed for PHP, you will usually find that this is essential when reading and/or writing large files or when working with large data sets. Luckily there is a very easy way yo increase the amount of memory allowed to PHP so that […]

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