Blocking bots and other unwanted visitors

At some point, you may want to block visitors from certain IP addresses from accessing your site. You can do this by creating a .htaccess file and inserting the following code:
order allow,deny
deny from 111.11.111.111
deny from 222.22.222.222
allow from all
Of course, replace 111.11.111.111 and 222.22.222.222 with the real IP addresses that you want to block.

Save yourself time and a few headaches by planning for url changes

I recently decided to use some of my custom scripts that were already installed on a few sites, on other sites that I own. Because I hard-coded my site’s url in each file, that meant that for each site that I also wanted to use the scripts on, I had to edit a number-a huge [...]

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