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Sometimes websites have a WordPress blog installed in a sub directory, and you want to display the most recent posts on a page of the website that is not part of WordPress.

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If you login to your WordPress Dashboard and see that Akismet is giving you an error message regarding a deactivated key, or if your blog is suddenly getting more spam than usual, you might need to get a new Akismet key.

You may also see this error:

Akismet Error Code: 10003

Howdy! It looks like you have an Akismet Personal subscription, which does not appear to be appropriate for your current usage. In order to continue using Akismet in this way, you will need to upgrade your subscription to one of our Enterprise or High Volume plans.

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It’s good for search engines, like Google, to only have one version of your website indexed. To Google, the www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com are not the same. You can use this code on Apache servers inside a .htaccess file. It’s worked for me on several different hosting companies.

To redirect to without www version:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

To redirect to the www version:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

My beloved dog has some health issues that has required me to monitor her around the clock. As she’s improved I’ve been contemplating how to again regain my freedom and be able to leave the house for short periods of time. But I wanted to know that she was safe in her enclosure and not in distress. I figured out how to use FaceTime and call my MacBook laptop with my iPhone and to see what she was doing.

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If you’re on a Mac, running Word 2011, and you want to publish a book on Kindle, it is really hard to find a good tutorial on how to create a table of contents. Many of the tutorials are for Word for PC, which actually has a critical feature missing, that makes it much more tedious to do on a Mac. So here are the steps I used, in the hope that it helps another person to do the same thing.

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I wonder if you can call something a parody when it’s actually completely accurate?

If you use eCommerceTemplates and want to export the mailing list into Constant Contact, you can follow these steps. Make sure you have explicit permission from folks before you send them bulk emails!

1. Export from ECT store (Mailing List, Action: Dump Entire Mailing List)
2. Convert CSV file to XLSX (because CC needs this)
(Option: Break fullname (first last) into two columns or whether to leave it as one value)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-text-into-different-cells-HA102809804.aspx
3. Sign in to CC, Contact, Pick List, Add Contact, From File
4. Select which fields to import and map them to CC fields
5. Import and done.

Sometimes you want to display the last few posts of a WordPress blog on a regular website page, assuming the WordPress installation is in a sub directory of the website. This is an alternative to using an RSS to HTML method. I’m saving the code here for myself, and in the event it helps another developer.

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Since my Nationals tennis victory, Fireball has been stalking me at parties. Each time I encounter it, I grab my iPhone and search for “is Fireball gluten free” and find a heated debate. So, I decided to test it using my Elisa test kit, which is accurate down to 10ppm.

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Jill’s tennis team, hailing from Robinswood Tennis Center in Bellevue Washington, has won the women’s doubles 2.5 National title! Many thanks to all of Jill’s clients who have been patient with her delays due to her commuting 50 miles round trip from Edmonds to Bellevue. It was worth every single gallon of gas!

Here’s the link to the Bellevue Reporter Article: http://www.bellevuereporter.com/sports/227269611.html