Often time when working on a site that multiple developers have treaded long before you uncovers some interesting discoveries. One such discovery can be spaghetti CSS which can be a nightmare. One way that I find useful to use is to insert borders in the CSS classes. I work in an environment that does not […]
Querying YouTube Video Statistics Using Python
Using Python and the YouTube API you can query and store a channel’s video statistics. Using either the video ID or the channel ID you can retrieve a host of information from YouTube. This is a brief outline of my approach. I’ll be expanding on the steps in the near future. I used two scripts […]
What a Horrible Thing to Do GoDaddy!
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini (.user.ini) Being new to WordPress and relatively new to shared hosting on GoDaddy / Plesk I have come to some “right of passage” or my turn in the barrel experience. After getting our blog up and running it was time to consider backup, restore and migrating […]
Configuring FTP with GoDaddy
Using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a decision that I made to augment how I manage files in addition to the standard GoDaddy offering. I can create on my laptop and very easily move content to my web server without having to open Plesk. GoDaddy recommends using FileZilla which is what I installed, configured and […]
How to Install an SSL Certificate from GoDaddy onto Plesk
This guide covers how to install an SSL certificate that was purchased from GoDaddy onto a site that uses Plesk. The first step is to buy a certificate from GoDaddy. We chose the “SSL Certificates” option shown in the picture above. Once you buy the certificate from GoDaddy, GoDaddy will email you a link where […]
Installing WordPress on GoDaddy & Plesk
Has anybody suffered through this process?