http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:13:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a long session going around in circles, I think I have cracked this particular nut! Yes indeed - I now have been able to create accounts on a Wordpress site, hook those accounts up to use a GAFYD as OpenID to log in to Wordpress using the same credentials as ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2009/11/28/more-google-apps-as-openid-for-wordpress/ Searching for VPN information for a SOHO environment was very difficult this afternoon for some reason. Therefore I'm saving the links I've found here for future reference: Enable VPN server in OS X for remote access via iPhone, Windows, and OS X clients IPSecuritas "the most advanced, yet free IPSec client for Mac ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2009/11/12/vpn-for-mac-a-few-quick-links/ Of these plugins to Manage Wordpress users and Google apps, the most promising sounding is of course WP Google Apps - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-google-apps/. That's the one I tested first (WP Google Apps 1.0 on Wordpress 2.8.5), with no real success. The first issue is that the plugin is nested an extra folder ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2009/11/10/testing-wp-google-apps/ On a quest to make my Scout group's website as simple as possible to use, I'm searching for a way to enable a single-sign-on (SSO) capability. Why you ask? So that our adult leaders and lay helpers can access both the Google Apps backend and the website with the same ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2009/11/09/managing-wordpress-users-and-google-apps/ The amazing Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin has just been updated to enable upgrading your Wordpress installation from 2.7 to 2.7.1 This plugin really makes it easy to upgrade Wordpress, even from an old install way back at version 1.5! The author had finished development when Wordpress announced the native ability to ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2009/02/21/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin/ The renovations continue up at the main site. The latest page to get the makeover is my money maker : now titled 'Improve Your Income.' By small, realistic amounts is the sub-text here! Sure you could make a lot of money, but that would be the exception rather than the ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2008/01/07/earn-extra-cash-easily/ The AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin » Acme Technologies Zeitgeist is a plugin to manage placing adsense blocks into individual posts!Nice job. http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2007/11/04/adsense-wp-plugin/ Technorati is a site that aims to index the live web, or all the fast updating content like blogs, photos, videos and so on. If you want to have some say over how your blog is presented, you can 'claim' it there. When you do, they will ask you to create ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2007/07/12/technorati-blog-directory/ Check out these neat tools at http://js-kit.com/. Simply by adding two lines to your website you can add a poll, comments or even a ratings system. The basic tools are free to use (at the moment), with adds potentially being added into the items down the track. http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2007/07/10/easy-way-to-add-polls-comments-or-ratings/ When you are running your own Wordpress blog on H-Sphere you will eventually want to install a new theme. What makes this interesting is that WebShell, the tool allowing file access to your H-Sphere hosting account, doesn't appear to allow you to upload a directory (folder) from your computer. Since ... http://www.fantastic.net.au/blog/2007/07/08/uploading-folders-to-webshell/