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Add the Background Color Button in the WordPress Editor

For those of you still using the Classic Editor in WordPress, you might find this code useful. It’s how to add in the background color (“backcolor”) button into the TinyMCE editor. Go into your theme’s functions.php file and add this code (usually you do this at the bottom of it but above the closing “?>”…

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Help! I Put Info in a Form on a Website and There’s an Error. How Do I Recover It?

I submitted a form (via the POST method) and the page on the server I was submitting to (Basecamp in this instance) gave me a 500 Internal Server Error page. Crap! That post took me an hour to create… but I was able to get the data back and submit it again successfully. I’ll explain…

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Make Sending Email Easy

What is My SMTP Server? Having Trouble Sending Email? Getting email working can be frustrating. You want to make sure the email you send to your clients actually reaches them or your business can grind to a halt. Your website host and others don’t seem to be offering an outgoing server account anymore since it…

Final Reminder / Notice About Your Domain Name

Final Reminder / Notice About Your Domain Name

Ha! I got one of these scam/fake notices today (“FINAL NOTICE – Your account is pending cancellation”) which looks like this: This is a scam – don’t fall for it. There is NO such thing as “search engine registration” so don’t fall for it. Go to Google and type in your domain name. If your…

Stop Using Internet Explorer… Like, Now!

Stop Using Internet Explorer… Like, Now!

If You’re Using IE, Your Computer Has Probably Already Been Hacked If you’re using Internet Explorer (by Microsoft) as your web browser, please stop using it. You may already be hacked – yeah, that’s how bad it is! People still using Windows XP (which was a good operating system but it’s no longer supported) got…

What does the browser padlock symbol mean?

What Does the Website Padlock Symbol in My Web Browser Mean?

What is the Browser Padlock Icon? If you see that a website has a lock beside it in the search/address bar, that symbol does not mean you’re locked out of it, it means the website is using security where information between your browser and the server is encrypted. It’s a good thing because people between…