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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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.

Google limits the number of ads that you can place in your blog per page. When you place the adsense code by modifying index.php so that the ad appears below a post, the ad is going to appear beneath all the posts on your blog’s homepage. This is not what we want.

For the ad to only appear under the first post and nowhere else,

The Quick Way

Edit index.php and place the following code wherever you want the ad to appear:

  <?php if ($wp_query->current_post < 1) {
adsense_deluxe_ads('above_posts');
} ?>

Replace adsense_deluxe_ads(’above_posts’); with your adsense code. If you want the ad to appear below the post, you would paste the above before <?php endwhile; ?>

Source.

We’ve similarly placed 3 link units at the top of first three posts on our home page using this code:

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I have (or should I say, had) 199 subscribers to my RSS feed (burned by feedburner) of SridhaReena site. I found out that it is possible to redirect these subscribers to the RSS feed of my new site (this one, howtotuts.com). Note that the redirection works only for 30 days. Here are the steps to follow:

1. Log into your feedburner.com account, go to your feeds list and click on the feed you want to redirect (let’s refer this as old feed)
2. Click Edit Feed Details… link at the top
3. Paste the feed URL of your new feed in the Original Feed field
4. Click Save Feed Details button

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