The following guide shows how to install a WordPress IIS test environment on your computer. There are many guides that do this the hard way - installing IIS, PHP, mySQL,…

When a WordPress installation sits behind a proxy server the proxy settings are added to wp-config.php to tell WordPress how to access the internet. Without this WordPress will be unable…

The file system in Windows 7 assigns a file name and extension to each file, for example document-name.docx The file extension is used to help Windows understand what type of…

By default WordPress will run an artificial 'cron job' once every minute. These cron jobs are used to maintain WordPress in the background by doing tasks like publishing scheduled posts…

The file system in Windows 8 assigns a file name and extension to each file, for example document-name.docx The file extension is used to help Windows understand what type of…

Advertising website addresses without the 'www.' is a growing trend. It's smaller, concise and gives the domain name the first bit of attention. However not all websites are prepared to…

Firefox has the ability to customise installations using a configuration file called mozilla.cfg. This file sits in the Firefox install directory, and each time Firefox is loaded it's checked for…

The following configuration/customisation is intended to be used with an install deployment of Firefox. For details of how to prepare a Firefox installation for deployment see Install and Configure Firefox…

To disable comments and pingbacks on WordPress multi-site installs - you need to use the following code in a must-use plugin. Please note - existing comments may still be displayed,…