Happy End for WD My Cloud 4TB Constant Clicking Sound

This is my experience with a recently purchased WD My Cloud with 4TB of hard drive space. Since they are not yet available for purchase in Japan, I saved the US postage fees and found one used on amazon.co.jp. After obtaining the device, I plugged it in and immediately noticed that it was emitting a […]

List of Blogging Platforms Unblocked in China 2014

Finally I have finished a new and even bigger list of (mostly English) blogging platforms that work in China. A total of 47 sites, where you can set up a blog (mostly free), were tested if they are blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Please note, that there is a possibility that any of […]

How to: Hidden PHP Form Field to Block Spam Bots

These are simple instructions on how to add a hidden text field in a HTML form that prevents spam or automated form submissions. The solution is for those using any kind of a PHP script such as a “contact form” plugin/extension for Joomla or WordPress. In this example, I have edited the Core Design Perfect Forms […]

How To Restart Ghost CMS Installed with Softaculous & cPanel

To make any changes to the theme, you must restart Ghost. I found plenty of guides, of which none worked for me. This is how I managed to restart Ghost CMS using cPanel and (limited) SSH/shell access. Ghost was originally installed using Softaculous. I had two reasons why I needed to have Ghost restarted. I wanted […]

Quick & Easy BEdita Install To Start Blogging

BEdita doesn’t come with one default front end, you can make your own or choose from one of the ready examples provided within the plugin. One of them is based on the Twenty Ten WordPress theme. In this little how to, I will install it and see how quickly I can get a modest but working […]

How to Add Japanese Language to WordPress

This is how to afterwards install and setup Japanese language files to WordPress. Also I’ll show how to change the backend “dashboard” language per user. WordPress is dead easy, which however does not always apply to documentation as was the case here. Thus I made this little how to. Of course, if you are starting from […]

How to Add Trailing Slash “/” to Joomla URLs Without .htaccess

I wanted to add a slash “/” to the end of all the URLs on my install of Joomla 3.3.1. So that all the pages on the site would have an address like “http://www.domain.com/page/”. As default, Joomla creates URLs without the trailing slash, ex. “http://www.domain.com/page”. This is possible to achieve with .htaccess, in my case however, […]

Fix Joomla 3.x “Undefined constant DS” or Blank Offline Page

This is how to fix the “Undefined constant DS” error using Joomla 3. In my case, the problem was that the offline page was blank (just a white page with no text on it). Only the “Site Offline” page stopped working, everything else was working fine. In such cases, the first thing to do is […]

Port Forwarding SoftBank ADSL Two Routers Trio3-G & Fon

In Japan, one of the cheapest broadband connections is SoftBank ADSL. The speed is said to range from anything between 3Mb to 50Mb, but actually it’s more like 10Mb down and 1Mb up. I recently got a connection from SoftBank and was struggling a bit with setting up port forwarding using two routers. So I […]

Why Editing WooCommerce “.po” Language File Has No Effect

I wanted to change some automatically generated text for WooCommerce version 2.1.10 and found out that editing the “.po” language file directly in ~/public_html/wp-content/themes/mytheme/languages simply does not work. This is because there is both a .po and .mo file that needs to be updated. One option was to install the Codestyling Localization plugin for WordPress, which just […]

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