Embedding YouTube videos or any other flash based object is an everyday routine operation. That's why it's too frustrating when after embedding new <iframe> code from YouTube and editing post, the code disappears and your video, map etc vanishes. Of course, we can use old YouTube embed code - there is even a special option in YouTube 'Share' set, but we want to use a new, advanced (as they say) option. To make <iframe> embed code work stable in WP we need to: 1. Insert … [Read more...]
Google search tips
June 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
* Phrase search ("") By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages … [Read more...]
Only avatar shows as sharing thumbnail on Facebook
April 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The problem is when you share a page on Facebook - there is no option to choose from variety of thumbnails as it regularly happens. Instead the only thumbnail you may post to FB along with your post is an avatar or gravatar. How this avatar thumbnail problem was solved: 1. First look into the source code in header section for doctype information. I fyou see something like this below, you need to insert piece of code that Facebook needs to share your page with multiple thumbnails. <!DOCTYPE … [Read more...]
FTP trap on transfering files in a wrong mode – FTP transfer type
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
After transfering files (html pages and some images) to hard drive, changing them and uploading back, web-site pages broke... I was trying to upload backup - the same story. My angel told me (I won't think about it by myself:) to check FTP transfer type. I've noticed it is set to Binary. I forgot to switch it back to 'Auto' after some specific files upload. In my case I needed to upload "clean" images from my very old backup to start web-site's pages working properly again. But! … [Read more...]
You Have Reached The Limit Of Password Reset Attempts
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As I see many people do experience this Facebook password reset problem. Sometimes there's a security threat when somebody tries to steal your FB password. In this case friend of mine lost FB password. While attempting to reset password, Facebook said "You Have Reached The Limit Of Password Reset Attempts". The solution was to wait another 24 hours and demand password reset again on this page https://www.facebook.com/recover.php. It failed again with same formulation You Have Reached … [Read more...]
