Submitting your blog posts to Digg.com is a great way to get traffic and gaining new visitors who could turn out to be potential feed subscribers depending on the merit of your content. So adding a small button to encourage the readers to submit your blog post to Digg is only logical.

Kenny Carlile has put together code that will add the Digg Submission button to your WordPress blog posts. Stories already submitted will show how many times they have been dugg and stories not yet submitted will post to the submit story page with information pre-populated (first 350 characters from the post will be pre-populated for first-time submission).

Here is how we have used this code to place the ‘Digg It’ button to the left of posts in single view with the content wrapping around the button:

1. Create a file called diggthis.php in your theme’s directory having this code.

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Is someone stealing your content and just pasting it on their blog hosted at Blogger? If so, follow these steps to set things right:

Update: According to Jonathan of plagiarismtoday.com, there is no need to follow these 4 steps. Check out his comment.

1. Visit the offending blog and flag it as objectionable.

   

2. Visit Blogger’s Report a Terms of Service Violation page. Select the second radio button ‘Someone is stealing my content’ and press Continue.

   

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All DreamHost hosting plans have full backup "snapshots" of your data (all the files and directories) taken at regular intervals (two hourly backups, two daily backups, and two weekly backups). This means that it is possible for you restore your site from a backup that DreamHost took in the last hour (that’s the latest). The procedure to restore your site from one of these backups is outlined in the reference link mentioned at the end of this post. You can also write a small shell script which will backup all the current latest contents of a directory of your web space as a .tar.gz file. Once this .sh file is ready, you can use cron to run it automatically at any time interval of your choice.

The following are the steps one should take to set up the daily automatic backups of this blog’s theme directory. The backed up file will be stored on the server as well as sent as an email attachment.

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This is a step-by-step tutorial on installation of KnowledgebasePublisher, an opensource PHP/MySQL knowledge base, FAQ script that you can install on your web site.

KnowledgebasePublisher is an opensource knowledge base software, FAQ software, or just content manager about any other type of article that you want to publish on your website. It’s so easy to use that you can be managing knowledgebase on your website right from your own web browser.

Official Demo | DonationCoder.com Demo (as a visitor)

Features:

• Unlimited Categories
• Glossary Terms
• Powerful WYSIWYG
• Instant Response
• Searching
• Add attachments
• Five different admin role
• Protect categories
• Commenting / Rating / Send to friend
• Users can ask questions
• Related Articles
• RSS

While the instructions that comes with the script are better than most others’, it still leaves some to be desired. So here are the installation instructions:

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Those who are behind strict corporate firewalls might not be able to access their web host-provided cPanel. The solution is to install cPanel Proxy on a sub-domain (like http://cpanel.yoursite.com).

cPanel Proxy is a small PHP script that gives access to your cPanel at port 80 by acting like a proxy. Its installation is as simple as uploading the files to a sub-domain.

Below are the steps to set it up:

1. Download the latest version (current: 0.4.1) from here and extract the contents to your local disk.
2. Create a sub-domain. Now, for this you will need to have access to cPanel. So create this when you are at your home or any other place other than the restrictive firewall location.
3. Upload all the files to the root directory of your sub-domain. Ex.: public_html/cpanel

That’s it! Now you should be able to access the cPanel at your sub-domain.