Category: Programming

Backup WordPress Database and Files

By Nick | July 1, 2011

A WordPress website consists of two main parts:

  1. Database – stores all of your website content including posts, comments, links and website settings (but not physical files like images uploaded).
  2. Files – where the code is stored to access the database and make everything work. Themes, plugins and user generated files (images uploaded) are all stored together in the wp-content folder.

Backing up just the database will mean you do not have a backup of images and files uploaded which are usually very important to a website.  So for a reliable backup of your WordPress website you need to backup the database and files. Read More »

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A Potentially Dangerous Request.Form Value Was Detected

By Nick | April 11, 2011

ASP.NET automatically checks for HTML being sent by GET or POST requests as a security precaution and throws the following nasty error if it finds any: Read More »

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Connecting to MySQL Server Across a Local Windows Network

By Nick | April 8, 2011

To access MySQL Server over a local Windows network you will need to open up the port that MySQL is using and also grant privileges for the user that will access the database server.

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Backup a SQL Server 2008 Database From a Shared Hosting Environment

By Nick | March 21, 2011

SQL Server hosting is usually expensive so shared hosting is often used to keep costs down. With shared database hosting, and with shared web hosting, security is usually tighter and this leads to some standard functionality not being available. With SQL Server 2008 shared hosting the Back Up task is often disabled.

In this article we cover an alternative way to backup your database using the Generate Scripts and Export Data database tasks. Read More »

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WordPress Comments Feed for a Custom Post Type

By Nick | March 11, 2011

We have already covered how to include custom posts in WordPress feeds. The changes made affect the comments feed and now will list comments for all post types. Read More »

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Using Additional Thumbnail Sizes in WordPress

By Nick | March 11, 2011

WordPress already lets you specify different sizes for media files uploaded. The sizes thumbnail, medium and large are included and the image dimensions can be configured under the Tools > Media menu.

However, if you require more image sizes you can register them in functions.php using add_image_size() Read More »

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WordPress Feed for Custom Post Types

By Nick | March 11, 2011

If you are using the new custom post types with WordPress you may have noticed that the custom posts do not automatically appear in your feed. Read More »

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Remove HTML with Regular Expressions

By Nick | February 22, 2011

Working with websites you often need to strip out HTML tags, tag attributes or the complete contents of a HTML tag from some text. Regular expressions can make this very easy and so we thought we would share some that we use all the time. Read More »

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mysql.data Incorrect number of arguments for PROCEDURE

By Nick | January 20, 2011

The following error occurred while using the MySQL Connector for ASP.NET:

mysql.data Incorrect number of arguments for PROCEDURE 'stored procedure name' expected 3 got 2

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Nesting ASP.NET User Controls

By Nick | December 20, 2010

While trying to nest ASP.NET user controls inside other user controls you may experience the following error:

The page ‘[control 1].ascx’ cannot use the user control ‘[control 2]‘, because it is registered in web.config and lives in the same directory as the page.

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