How To Tell If Google Analytics Is Loaded with Javascript

Google analytics check if loaded using javascript in console screenshot The Problem: Sometimes if we copied a site or if we're writing a third party library, we may not know whether Google analytics has been loaded.   The Trick Google analytics using a function it defines in the global context called "ga".   How It [...] Read More

allintitle Google Search Command

Starting a query with allintitle: will return only the sites that contain the phrase directly in the site’s title.   Her’es an example for “Houston Computers”:

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Repository ‘http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release’ changed its ‘Origin’ value from ‘Google, Inc.’ to ‘Google LLC’

The Problem: You're updating you're ubuntu server with sudo apt-get update and you get the following error: E: Repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release' changed its 'Origin' value from 'Google, Inc.' to 'Google LLC' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be ap plied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.   Screenshot of [...] Read More

Fix “Connection Information” on WordPress for Adding Plugin

Have you ever received this “Connection Information” error like this when you first started a wordpress site (maybe you’re staring at it right now):   What It Means All this means is that the WordPress framework doesn’t have the ability to access the files it needs to get to.  In the case of adding a plugin, […]

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Unzipping WordPress Files in Same Directory (Not in /wordpress folder)

First, cd into the folder you want to install WordPress into: cd /var/www/html/sites/myNewSite Next, download the WordPress archive file: sudo tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz Finally, extract the files right into your present working directory: sudo tar --strip-components=1 -xzvf latest.tar.gz Note the --strip-components=1 parameter, this is what does the magic and puts the files directly in your same [...] Read More

What’s My Global IP Address · Linux Command

It's quick and easy to lookup your global IP using the Linux terminal.  Run this command on the command line prompt: curl https://ipinfo.io/ip Read More

Lookup Multiple Domain and Page Authorities with One Search

We just found a great online tool for checking and comparing l of your domains’ authorities according to the Moz SEO metrics: domain authority and page authority.   Domain Authority Check For Multiple Domains   What’s great about this tool is it allows you to see a table with all of your domains’ Domain Authority […]

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Obtain the Author Name for WordPress Post

Many times we will need to display the author's name for an article on our WordPress site.  Thankfully the WordPress team made this very each with a custom php function called get_the_author which prints the name of the author associated with the post   The PHP Code <?php echo get_the_author(); ?> Read More

PostgreSQL: Date Sorting NULLS FIRST

Sometimes we will have a date field that is nullable.  For instance, sometimes we way way a date field to be null if a certain event never occured for that record.  Sometimes we will want to sort the data so that the nulls are the first results.   Let's say we have a table like [...] Read More

Fix Visual Composer (aka WPBakery) After WordPress Update · Undo Gutenberg

So you wake up to find your wordpress site autoupdated and all the Gutenberg editor has taken over and worse yet, visual composer stopped working!! Relax, it's easy to fix, just go to "Add plugin" page and search for "Classic Editor" Here's a  video going over the steps: Read More