Mitch Bartlett – Page 2

January 1, 2015

Delete WordPress Spam Comments from Database Using phpMyAdmin

Spam gathers in my WordPress comments by the thousands every day. It can get quite overwhelming to manage. Especially when attempting to delete the tens of thousands of comments Akismet marked as “Spam” at once. If you attempt to delete too many comments at once from the WordPress Dashboard, it will likely error out or even worse, crash your site....

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May 25, 2014

How to Clear Iframe From Web Pages

I’ve experienced problems with malicious websites that display my web pages within an Iframe on their own sites. If you’re not familiar withÂ what an Iframe is, it’s an HTML tag that can be used display another web page in a split view. The Iframe tag was very common in the late 90’s and early 00s, but these days it is...

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April 30, 2014

How I Got Out of My Anti-Social Bubble (and How You Can Too)

Back when I lived in Chicago, I felt like I was at the center of the universe. I was working for a hugeÂ dot-com company and attended all the conferences I could. I met many people with many backgrounds. I couldn’t get on the ‘L’ train without running into somebody I knew. In 2006 I moved to Sioux Falls and lost...

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November 1, 2013

How to Move Your WordPress Site to a New Host

It can be perplexing to move a WordPress website to a new host. There are quite a few steps, and if everything isn’t done correctly you could lose data or suffer downtime. There are a couple of ways you can go about migrating your site to a new host. If you’re a pro and are familiar with MySQL, I recommend...

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October 5, 2013

Finally Leaving Dreamhost

Posts about web hosts sucking are very common. There are so many that I try to stay away from those types of posts, but Dreamhost’s customer service (or lack therof) motivates me to write this. I mean, they have to be #1 when it comes to ranking worst Customer Service experiences. If everybody had a web host, they would even...

Tech Comments: 5

September 7, 2013

Yet Another Social Icons Plugin

I have been searching for the perfect plugin for WordPress that allows me to easily add social icons to via a widget. There are some good plugins out there, and a lot of bad ones. None of them had everything I needed though. The Simple Social Icons plugin came close. But it doesn’t include a few networks I need to...

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