Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated – CubeCart
“Deprecated” means a particular function of php, used by CubeCart, is no longer available. In this case, the functions are ereg, eregi and eregi_replace.
Geek Stuff
CubeCart V3 and V4 Absolute End Of Life Imminent
Back in the first decade of this century, a system called CubeCart was developed that was pretty revolutionary at the time. It worked really well for those wanting to build a simple-to-use but comprehensive eCommerce website. Over the years it grew and changed, with V3 being the first popular CubeCart version. It is now up […]
Price Increase on RSS Masher Imminent
If you have seen my recent posts on YouTube Playlists Training, or on Making Your Social Accounts Go Viral Using FREE RSS Feeds, you will be aware that I am a big fan of RSS Masher. Damon has created a wonderful product, but he can’t keep the special pricing as it is, for much longer. He’s […]
Make Your Social Accounts Go Viral Using FREE RSS Feeds
There are lots of places you can get free RSS feeds, and you can use tools to get the information from them onto your social media accounts, automatically or manually.
IQ Block Country preventing access to WordPress admin?
A recent update to the excellent WordPress plugin IQ Block Country has resulted in a problem – IQ Block Country preventing access to WordPress admin. The symptoms are that you can see your main website, but that your admin gives a blank screen. I am not sure if it is related to an update of […]
PayPal Changes and WooCommerce Sites
A number of clients have written to me in a bit of a panic about the PayPal changes and WooCommerce sites. They have received an email from PayPal saying changes are needed to their websites to be compatible with new security measures PayPal is introducing (“IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades”), and they have no […]
“mysqli_real_connect(): Headers and client library minor version mismatch” on WordPress
In the last week or so (it is now mid April 2016), the message “mysqli_real_connect(): Headers and client library minor version mismatch” has started appearing at the top of a lot of WordPress sites. This is also preventing people from getting to their wp-admin login pages, so it is a pretty tricky thing to fix […]
How To Rank Your Videos With RSS
The easy version: Watch this video and I can do this for you for $5 on fiverr. Here’s the gig: https://www.fiverr.com/geckogully/do-video-ranking-magic-with-rss But if you want to do it yourself, here is How To Rank Your Videos with RSS… Once you have made your video and uploaded it to YouTube, one of the next steps to […]
What is RSS?
This video introduces RSS as a way to subscribe to websites and save time on the Web. An “old vs. new” theme illustrates how RSS differs from visiting web sites independently, including: The new and old ways of reading news on the web An introduction to RSS Readers (using Google Reader as an example) How […]
Encryption on the Web: Explained
Encryption is fundamental part of using the Internet securely, but it is mostly invisible to the user. This video explains the basic idea of encryption and specifically the two types of keys that are used online: symmetric and public. It teaches: • Why encryption matters on the Web • An example of encryption used in […]