WordPress (part 1)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

One question that seems to crop up all the time concerns marrying AOM to WordPress.  I just want to briefly discuss some ‘hot-to’ and ‘not-to’ situations concerning making these two systems work together. The first point I want to emphasize is that Associate-O-Matic is not a plugin for WordPress. I see a lot of questions [...]

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Index.php vs. Shop.php

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I admit to being confused about the actions of many AOM users regarding the shop.php file. Specifically the need to rename it, usually to index.php. I understand why some people may choose to rename the file in this way; a directory is generally designed to display an index file during a call. So if you [...]

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Go, Daddy, Go!

Friday, January 9, 2009

As I mentioned in an earlier post, many Associate-O-Matic users have problems with GoDaddy as a hosting service. And I’m not keen on it myself – I think their control panel is so simplistic as to actually make it more difficult to use, and they don’t make simple tasks any easier by dumbing them down [...]

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Mod_rewrite: A Users Guide

Friday, December 12, 2008

Mod_rewrite: A Users Guide

Setting your AOM site up for mod_rewrite can be a crucial step towards making your site both more user-friendly, and search engine-friendly. But to many people, especially those without much experience, it can seem like a daunting task. We’re going to break the steps down, and make this important area look like the easy setup [...]

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