Many websites show a “total number of items in your basket”. So, how do you get that information out of Magento if you’re not in the checkout process? You can simply call the Mage Helper file checkout/cart. If all you’re …

This is the third Think Visibility I’ve attended (much thanks to Branded3 for forking out for the ticket!) I’ve really enjoyed the previous conferences and this one was no exception. Whilst I’m not an SEO, I have a keen interest …

I was setting up SSL on our local Debian box at work, and needed to generate a new cert. apache2-ssl-certificate failed to work though, so what have they done with it? Well, they’ve moved it. If you’re setting up SSL …

I had the need recently to find a cron job on a server. I was logged in as root, but I didn’t know who the cron job was set up as. You can get a list of all users who …

I was having issues with a site recently whereby the jQuery UI Tabs that were on the site weren’t working in IE. After chopping out all other includes and HTML/CSS that wasn’t needed for the tabs to display, I narrowed …

I was reading about the impending release of WordPress 3.2 and the fact that it will only be supporting PHP 5.2 and above. This also sparked discussion at http://yoast.com/requires-php-52/ regarding Yoast’s plugins now requiring PHP 5.2 (it has a check …

WordPress MU, or just WordPress now as of v3, supports “networks” of sites. Once you set up the main site, you can install other sites into folders, or on to subdomains of the main domain. There is a lot of …

There are a few things I enjoy other than web development. I love SEO, and Law also; having never found enough time to tackle either, I like to keep my eye in whenever something crops up. Something that SEO and …

I have Plesk installed on my web server. 1and1 helpfully redirect all subdomains (wildcard) at a the server when you register the domain. This means that you can add subdomains straight to Plesk without having to register them through the …

What is the Open Graph protocol The Open Graph protocol enables integrations of your web pages into the social graph. It is promenantly used by the Facebook Platform. Whilst the development has been undertaken by Facebook, they’ve built on top …