You heard it right, you can now run PHP 5.3 applications on HostMonster. I’ve only testing this on HostMonster, but I would assume the same applies to BlueHost. Simply add this line to the beginning of your website’s root .htaccess file: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53 .php After making this change you can test it using phpinfo() and [...]
I found out just recently that in some cases when you perform a blank search on a WordPress site you are redirected to the front page with an error message. If you encounter this issue simply apply the fix below, which modifies the blank search into a search for one space. This is enough to [...]
Have you ever encountered a case where you want to access your WordPress site from multiple site URLs (for example a local URL and an external URL, or multiple external URLs)? Solution Change the Site URL and Home URL to a relative URL, making the domain name irrelevant to loading the site. Oh, but it [...]
A topic of contention that has been around for many years is that of using ORDER BY RAND() to select random rows. This method is said to be very slow, doesn’t scale well and should not be used. Is this the case? Does it have its uses? Well, they say the proof is in the [...]