Posts Tagged ‘way’
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 Until recently, I have used a default wordpress theme which historically is a bit old and used to be a default theme to the older versions of wordpress.
Since however, I’ve went to many updates and on the other hand I do like and enjoy the template I have decided to continue use it for my blog until this very day.
However this nice theme’s default behaviour is a bit weird, since by default the Single opened posts are configured in a way that the usual index page sidebar is missing.
As in the sidebar there are plenty of navigation buttons and search in the blog button, at a certain moment I have realized it’s probably not a good idea that the single.php (single blog posts) open up with the right sidebar missing.
Thus I’ve decided to put back the missing sidebar in the single posts, with a hope that this will be helpful to my readers and hence have positive impact on the overall blog user experience.
Doing so prooved to be rather easy, here is how I added back the right sidebar to my wordpress single posts :
1. Edit blog/wp-content/themes/default/single.php
debian:~# vim /var/www/blog/wp-content/themes/default/single.php
2. In the single.php look up for the code:
<div id="content" class="widecolumn">
Substitute this html code with:
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
3. Next find the code:
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Right before the get_footer(); php function add in the function;
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Tadam! Refresh a single post in Firefox and you should see your blog index.php sidebar to show up.
Tags: behaviour, blog, Button, code lt, content themes, default behaviour, default theme, div, div id, Firefox, footer, function, gt 3, hand, idea, impact, index page, moment, navigation buttons, older versions, page, php, Search, Single, substitute, Tadam, use, user experience, var, vim, way, wordpress blog, www
Posted in Web and CMS, Wordpress | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 16th, 2011 By the default wordpress does not have support for changing the exact font, therefore copying and pasting a text made in Open Office or MS Word often places in the Post or Page wp edit fonts different from the default one set for articles.
Hence some articles after being published on a wordpress blog show up with improper font and the only way to fix that is to change the font first in Open Office and then copy back to wordpress instead of simply being able to change the font from within the wordpress article.
To get around this problem, there is a nice plugin fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin which aids wordpress with an awesome Word like edit functionalities.
, downhload location for FCKEdit for WordPress is here
Here is a screenshot of the extra nice functionality the FCKEditor for wordpress providces.
Installing the plugin is like installing any other wordpress plugin and comes easily to:
debian:/~# cd /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins
debian:/plugins# wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin.3.3.1.zip
...
debian:/plugins# unzip fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin.3.3.1.zip
...
debian:/plugins# cd fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/
And further enabling the plugin from:
Plugins -> Inactive -> (Dean's FCKEditor For WordPress) Enable
fckeditor for wordpress will replace the default wordpress editor TinyMCE straight after being enabled.
I’ve done also a mirror of the current version as of time of writting of this article, one can download the fckeditor for wordpress mirrored here
Now really file editting inside wordpress admin panel is way easier and convenient 😉 Cheers
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Posted in Everyday Life, Various, Web and CMS, Wordpress | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 24th, 2011 I needed to link a new created WordPress Post to external web page address. So when one clicks over the created post he opens an external website.
I’ve googled around to see how this can be achieved and found ordpress external links plugin
I gave a go of the plugin, but pitily I couldn’t make it work. I decided to try some other methods and after some time I tried another approach. I used the HTML >a href=””< My Post Title </a> as a title and it appeared this simple method prooved working 😉
Here is a small screenshot, from wordpress Add New Post dialog
By the way the information online I’ve found on how this the external link creation for a Page or a Post is made was quite obscure and messy. i wonder why there is no clear explanation on the direct a href link creation, especially since WordPress is a de-facto standard for a blogging platform and nowdays powers up so many websites engines around the world.
Tags: creation, de facto standard, dialog, external url, external web, href, href link, HTML, information, link, link creation, lt, nowdays, online, page, platform, plugin, post, quot, screenshot, standard, time, url, way, web page address, Wonder, Wordpress, working
Posted in Linux, Various, Web and CMS, Wordpress | 3 Comments »
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 I'm managing few wordpress installations which requires me to type in:
Hostname , FTP Username and FTP Password , every single time a plugin update is issued and I want to upgrade to the new version.
Below is a screenshot of this annoying behaviour:
As you can see in the above screenshot, there is no way through Update Plugins web interface to store the password permanently. Hence the only option to store it permanently is to manually edit wp-config.php (file located in wordpress docroot, e.g. /path/to/wordpress/wp-config.php , inside the file find the line:
define ('WPLANG', '');
Right after it put a code similar to:
define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpsockets');
define('FTP_BASE', '/path/to/wordpress/');
define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', '/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/');
define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ', '/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/');
define('FTP_USER', 'Username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'Password');
define('FTP_HOST', 'localhost');
Change the above defines:
path/to/wordpress/ – with your wordpress location directory.
Username and Password – with your respective FTP username and password. The localhost
That's all, from now onwards the User/Password prompt will not appear anymore. Consider there is a security downside of storing the FTP User/Pass in wp-config.php , if someone is able to intrude the wordpress install and access the documentroot of the wordpress install he we'll be able to obtain the ftp user/pass and log in the server directly via FTP protocol.
Tags: Auto, base path, behaviour, config, content, documentroot, downside, Draft, file, g path, host, line, localhost, location, location directory, password, Path, php, plugin, Protocol, screenshot, security, someone, time, type, update, User, version, way, web interface
Posted in System Administration, Web and CMS, Wordpress | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 1st, 2011 The Return Path variable on one of the qmail mail servers I manage was improperly set.
New newsletter mails initiated by the php scripts on the mail server had the improper return path set in the mail headers, like so:
Return-Path: <anonymous@mail.mymailserver.com>
Therefore many mail servers dropped messages as the set Return Path variable in the headers was incorrectly set to the domain mail.mymailserver.com
Thus to change the Return Path to the correct one that should have been mymailserver.com I had to include mymailserver.com in qmail’s control file /var/qmail/control/bouncehost, e.g.
root@qmail:~# echo 'mymailserver.com' > /var/qmail/control/bouncehost
root@qmail:~# echo 'mymailserver.com' > /var/qmail/control/doublebouncehost
By the way the return path in qmail is set by:
> qmail-inject and qmail-send
There seems to be also some way to ovewrite the default set return-path variable with some php variables but I have never tried this one.
Cheers 😉
Tags: anonymous mail, Auto, bouncehost, Cheers, com, control, default, domain, domain mail, doublebouncehost, Draft, file, lt, mail, mail headers, mail server, mail servers, mymailserver, newsletter, ovewrite, Path, php, php scripts, php variables, Qmail, Return, return path, root, server, var, way
Posted in Linux, Qmail, System Administration | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 16th, 2012 I needed to set TeamViewer to autorun, each and every startup on one Xubuntu Linux
Xubuntu is running by default with Xfce 4 . Xfce is a sort of a very liteweight GNOME like graphical environment.
In Gnome the way that is through invoking the gnome-session-manager .
In Xfce the command is almost analogous doing changes is done by running:
user@xubuntu:~$ xfce4-session-manager
Further on simply use the Add button to add applications to load each time user (opens xfce session) / logs in.
Cheers 😉
Tags: add button, Auto, Autorun, Button, Cheers, command, default, Draft, environment, Gnome, graphical environment, Linux, LinuxXubuntu, liteweight, session, session logs, session manager, sort, startup, TeamViewer, time, time user, use, User, way, XFCE, Xubuntu
Posted in Linux, Linux and FreeBSD Desktop | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 Once again, I experienced Skype microphone issues!!! Its getting really annoying, since almost randomly I get issues. Skype is a terrible program and depending on a proprietary thing like Skype is a real pain in the ass.
This time it was totally strange as there was no way to record any voice inside Skype Call while testing with (Echo / Sound Test Service)
After a lot of puzzling and getting a bit angry I found this time the issues are caused by some settings which somehow changed in GNOME Sound Preferences microphone to mute:
You see on above screeshot that somehow the stupid thing get mutted 😐
After unmuting and restarting Skype, the microphone started working in Skype again …
Tags: Auto, bit, Call, Debian, Draft, echo sound, Gnome, Linux, lot, microphone, pain, pain in the ass, Problems, program, screeshot, Service, Skype, Sound, sound test, stupid thing, test, test service, testing, thinkpad, time, voice, way
Posted in Linux and FreeBSD Desktop, Linux Audio & Video, Skype on Linux | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 30th, 2011 Earlier I've blogged about how to prevent brute force attacks with fail2ban, denohosts and blockhosts , however there is easier way to secure against basic brute force attacks by not installing or configuring any external programs.
The way I'm talking about uses simple iptables rules to filter out brute force attacks.
Here is a small script to stop ssh and FTP invaders which try to initiate more than 3 consequential connections in 5 minutes time to port 22 or port 23:
SERVER_MAIN_IP='AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD';/sbin/iptables -N SSH_WHITELIST
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -m recent --name sshbr --set
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -j SSH_WHITELIST
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -m recent --name sshbr \
--update --rttl --hitcount 3 --seconds 300 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
/sbin/iptables -A SSH_WHITELIST -s $SERVER_MAIN_IP -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -m recent --rttl --remove
The only thinIf the rules are matched iptables filter rules will be added to the iptables CHAIN SSH_WHITELIST
In case if you want to add some more truested IPs add some more iptables rules, like:
ALLOW_IP='BBB.CCC.DDD.EEE';
/sbin/iptables -A SSH_WHITELIST -s $ALLOW_IP -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -m recent --rttl --remove
Each filtered IP that matches the rules will be filtered for 5 minutes, if 5 minutes is enough, the 300 value has to be increased.
Tags: ALLOW, BBB, blogged, brute force, CCC, ddd, dport, EEE, filter rules, INPUT, ips, iptables, Linux, Main, name, nbsp, port, port 22, port 23, removeEach, sbin, server, ssh, sshbr, SYN, time, value, way, whitelist
Posted in Computer Security, Linux, System Administration | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 
While looking over the installable packages in System -> Administration -> Software Center on my my Debian powered notebook, I’ve accidently rolled over a game called Abe’s Amazing Adventure , as a big oldschool arcade game fan, I’ve immediately clicked on Install being impatient to see the overall game atmosphere and gameplay as well as storyline.
Abe’s Amazing Adventure is available under the debian package name abe and can be installed by issuing:
debian:~# apt-get install abe
I was pleasently surprised to find out the gameplay and the overall game feels like the golden classical arcade game Dangerous Dave
For youngsters who never played the amazing absolute killing arcade ! as well as for people who feel nostalgic about Dangerous Dave 2 here is a nice gameplay screenshot:
Here is also a screenshot of Abe’s Amazing Adventure gameplay:
You can see the great resemblense between the two games even by the screenshot; In both games you have to collect keys to open doors and diamonds which gives you points. Of course there are some differences as you can see Abe’s Amazing Adventure ‘s graphics has some additional items like Baloons with which your main character can fly over distances (for a limited time). There is also more diversity in the enemy types you face on the road to unlock the different doors. The game has also a red stars which while taken saves the game so if you quit the game on next game load up starting the game automatically starts you from the last save point.
The ( 6 ) baloons seen in the screenshot on the left upper corner can be used occasionally to fly some distance by pressing Enter .
There are health recovery kits one can take to recover, some health damaged by hitting obstacles on the way.
The game story is short but entertaining, just like the general game feel:
The game music is relaxing and more or less in the spirit of arcade games, the keyboard interactivety is pretty good as well.One thing I see can be improved to make the game better are the graphics, they’re a bit childish and too cubical, where sometimes some more general characters and obstacles animation will give the game a better look. Anyways for the year 2003 and for a free software arcade the game is not bad. For children and growing kids the game is just perfect, even for big kids like me its good to spend an hour of jump and run fun 😉
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Posted in Entertainment, Games Linux, Linux, Linux and FreeBSD Desktop | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 8th, 2011 The usual way that one is supposed to check a certain partition let’s say /dev/sda1 disk UUID (Universal Unique Identifier) label is through a command:
vol_id /dev/sda1
For reason however Debian does not include vol_id command. To check the UUID assigned disk labels on Debian one should use another command called blkid (part of util-linux deb package).
blkid will list all block device attributes so it doesn’t specifically, passing any partition as argument.
Here is an example output of blkid :
server:/root# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="cdb1836e-b7a2-4cc7-b666-8d2aa31b2da4" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="c67d6d43-a48f-43ff-9d65-7c707a57dfe6" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="e324ec28-cf04-4e2e-8953-b6a8e6482425" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="1DWe0F-Of9d-Sl1J-8pXW-PLpy-Wf9s-SsyZfQ" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/mapper/computer-root: UUID="fbdfc19e-6ec8-4000-af8a-cde62926e395" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/mapper/computer-swap_1: UUID="e69100ab-9ef4-45df-a6aa-886a981e5f26" TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/computer-home: UUID="2fe446da-242d-4cca-8b2c-d23c76fa27ec" TYPE="ext3"
Tags: cca, command, computer swap, deb, deb package, debian gnu, dev, Disk, disk labels, doesn, DWe, ext, ff, gnu linux, Linux, linux deb, LVM, mapper, package, partition, partition disk, quot dev, reason, root, sda, sdb, sec type, server root, Unique, UUID, vol, way
Posted in Linux, System Administration, Various | No Comments »
