How to optimize your setup so wordpress runs fast.

Useful web api.

List of plugins for wordpress that show Adsense or display Adsense earnings on your site or in your admin area.  I like this one for sharing the wealth.

The online generator to beat all online generators.  This one has a list of them all.  Well, maybe not all, but there are some pretty useful generators listed.

A very simple PayPal “Buy Now” button creator with a twist.

Besides creating a button, this script will also allow you to increase the price by a certain amount each minute.

Good site for designers and developers.

A technical resource that provides easy-to-understand, comprehensive tutorials for Flash, ActionScript, PHP/XML, Photoshop, and more.

PHP script to strip out the nasty things that contact form spammers use.

One of those sites worth bookmarking for the information provided. In this case, there are a lot of useful and cool PHP and Javascript tidbits at Bokehman.

A good site showing an example of using object orient modules.

Site describes the use of classes and functions. Also talks about global variables.

There are many ways to add a cron job that calls a php script - and it really depends on how your server is setup.

Here’s some example setups:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/user/public_html/script.php

lynx -dump http://www.example.com/script.php

/usr/bin/curl http://www.example.com/script.php

I found out about the last way of loading a cron with a php script because the lynx version was giving me permission errors and the /usr/local/bin/php method just wouldn’t work.

Using php_value auto_prepend_file in .htaccess and output buffering (ob_start) to highlight search terms.

Actually, these are the instructions for recompiling php with curl because all I did was compile the same version that was already running on my server.

All of this is from the shell (Putty works great for this).

> cd /usr/src
> wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-4.4.2.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
> zcat php-4.4.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> cd php-4.4.2/
> ./configure –with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs –prefix=/usr/local –with-xml –enable-bcmath –enable-calendar –enable-ftp –enable-magic-quotes –with-mysqli –with-mysql=/usr –enable-discard-path –with-pear –enable-sockets –enable-track-vars –with-zlib –with-curl
> make
> make install
> cd /usr/local/apache/bin
> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl stop
> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl status

That’s it.

Check how many pages you have indexed in the major search engines; Yahoo, Google and MSN.

Index Checking script

Use at your own risk, you are responsible for the results.

I have been added to the functionality of this script. Besides being able to setup a cron job to email you the results daily, I have hacked together the ability to dump the daily results into a MySQL database. With a database of results, you can then use that data to graph your results.