WordPress Increase PHP Memory for cache.php

This trick isn’t guaranteed to prevent all WordPress-generated PHP memory errors, but it certainly seems to help reduce their overall occurrence. For some reason, after my host upgraded their servers to Apache 1.3.41, I began logging an extremely high number of fatal PHP “memory exhausted” errors resulting from the WordPresscache.php script. Here is an example …

Akeeba Backup

Akeeba Backup is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS, quite a bit different than its competition. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server. It creates a backup archive which contains all the files, a database snapshot and a restoration script. The backup and restore …

How to Scrape Meta Tags From Any Web Page With PHP

A couple of weeks ago I was going to work on a new project, it was a directory-like kind of app. One the things this application had to do was let users add their websites to their profiles, and so the first question came up, “how am going to get their website’s title and meta …

Using ‘date’ meta-tags for dynamic content

Why add a date to your content? Everyone wants to see the most current content. Why should you want to date it if the server will automatically tell the browser that it’s all ‘brand new’ when serving an active page (i.e. PHP, ASP, JSP, etc.)?! By putting a date on your content you’re admitting that …