I’d like to announce the beta availability of our Zferral + Chargify WordPress plugin. Let’s describe why the plugin was necessary. We had a client, who wanted to credit any of their affiliates for a sale once a customer had purchased something from the hosted payment page at Chargify. Normally, this can handled pretty easily… Read more »
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Accessing the remote ip of the user via Rackspace Load Balancers
Rackspace recently launched their load balancer service to the public, it’s an awesome service/appliance. It’s easy to setup, and works out of the box for most things. One thing we noticed that changed was that the REMOTE_ADDR of the visitor was no longer visible, most comments were being posted from the ip address of the… Read more »
Security Update – WordPress 3.1.2
The WordPress foundation has released a security update for WordPress, we’ll be performing upgrades for our customers between 2AM CST and 5AM CST on April 27th 2011. We’re not expecting any downtime for any of our customers, this is just a heads up. If we forgot your site in the mass update, please e-mail help@zippykid.com… Read more »
Ideas of March
The PHP community blogosphere is coming alive again, thanks to a post by Chris. I thought I’d put in my two cents as well. Why I Like Blogs I can read them at my slow pace. They usually contain more information about a topic I’m interested in. Blogs create credibility, they show up in google… Read more »
Long term goals of ZippyKid
I’ve been fairly busy and quiet for the past few months, I wanted to stop that trend and give people some background on what’s going on. I’m having the time of my life, as some of you know, I’ve been closing down my consulting business, and ramping up ZippyKid. Lately, I’ve been approached by some… Read more »
MySQL 5.5 GA launchd issues with Snow Leopard
I did a clean install on my Macbook Pro this morning, part of the clean install means, re-downloading things like MySQL. When I installed it, I noticed that the pref-pane wouldn’t start MySQL. Even when it asked for my admin password. I thought maybe it was a boot up issue, so I rebooted, and got… Read more »
How to test your WordPress Cache
The images above show you how to analyze the effectiveness of your cache. Our previous post on How to make WordPress Fastertalked about caching static content, using Mod Pagespeed, and Nginx. The question becomes, how do you measure the effectiveness of your cache? Turns out it’s fairly easy with Safari. If you look at the… Read more »
How to make WordPress faster without the use of a plugin
When it comes to web page load time, she should always say “wow, that was fast”. A Quick update based on Frederick’s comment below ** Please do not take these tips as THE answer, this is a complement, not a replacement. I have purposely not given specifics on how to configure anything, or what value… Read more »
Using font-face with a CDN and Firefox
We experienced an interesting issue for one of our customers today. The fonts they had specified using the @font-face technique, would not render in Firefox. The fonts would show up fine in Chrome, Safari, and IE, but in Firefox 3.5 the fonts would not render. After doing some research, and talking to Jake Smith and… Read more »
We're Hiring – 1 Easy way to make Christmas money.
ZippyKid is a WordPress Hosting company, we host websites for small businesses, and A-list bloggers. What differentiates us is that we use WordPress exclusively, and we manage the entire process for our customers. You’ll rarely need to teach someone how to FTP, you’ll be doing the changes for them, or you’ll be making the changes… Read more »
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