Do you have traffic coming from a source that you’d prefer not to be associated with? Is there a forum hotlinking to one of your images and using up your bandwidth? Fortunately there’s a pretty easy way to block these connections with a small text file called .htaccess.
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Google Analytics gives you the ability to track visitors by custom variables, but I couldn’t seem to find much information on it until I knew the right term to search on - hint, it’s “__utmSetVar”.
The __utmSetVar javascript function lets you set a variable that Analytics will then use in the statistics it keeps. Say [...]
This is a spin off of a previous post that I did on displaying a message to guests on a Simple Machines forum. A commenter asked a question that I assume was looking for a way to wrap ad code the same way I was wrapping the welcome message.
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Help! I’ve forgotten my Wordpress password!
Ever been there? Wordpress has a built in method to email you a new password, but what happens if it’s been so long that you don’t have access to the email address any longer? Or if you have too many email addresses and can’t remember what address [...]
If you’ve spent much time on forums you’ve no doubt noticed that many forums will display a message to guests welcoming them and often displaying a link to the registration page. Not having found a simple solution to do this in my two Simple Machines Forums I looked at the code to see if [...]