We needed to create a site that could limit some pages and posts to logged in members only. To do this we used three different free plugins.
To protect the content we used:
Member Access
We quickly discovered that the default registration page and log in pages would be pretty confusing to people. These pages look like they [...]
Tag Archives: wordpress
WordPress Member Area
WordPress.org Vs WordPress.com With Douglas Welch
June 23, 2009
On this episode I talk with Douglas Welch about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org and when you might want to use WordPress.org vs WordPress.com.
WordPress.com is hosted and managed by automattic (the company behing wordpress). If you choose WordPress.com you don’t install or control the software.
WordPress.org is the home of the open source wordpress software. [...]
SEO – Ashley Berman Hale
May 6, 2009
I got the opportunity to have a great conversation with Ashley Berman Hale. During out conversation we discussed various topics to help local businesses to understand SEO and web promotion.
Choosing a CMS
April 11, 2009
As a small business owner you might be in a position to choose a CMS (Contact Managment System) yourself, but you should have an idea of the options available to you so you can my more informed about this impact of one choice or the other. In this episode Glenn and Gerry discussus varius options [...]
Joomla – Interview with Joe Hacobian
December 30, 2008
Joe is a heavy proponent of Joomla which is a PHP Contact Management System to help small business maintain their own websites. I think you’ll gain some inside into what Joomla is all about by listening to this interview.
WordPress Question Answered by Matt Mullenweg?
November 9, 2008
Charles Stricklin
First I’d like I’d like to thank Charles and the crew over at the WordPress Podcast for airing my question to Matt (the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress) . It was a nice treat to have Matt right there to answer my question. I’m not sure if he answered my [...]
Fast and Secure(ish) WordPress Installer.
October 18, 2008
I created a little quick installer for WordPress for those who have ssh access. This process assumes you have your database setup already.
Its features include:
Automatically downloads and installed latest version
Set the 4 secret keys: AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY and NONCE_KEY to random values
Set the $table_prefix to a random value
Here’s the process.
Use Telnet or Putty to connect [...]



July 13, 2009
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