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I was looking to change the way my personal website at simondalfonso.id.au is accessed. Currently, both http://www.simondalfonso.id.au and http://simondalfonso.id.au work separately. I wanted to change it so that the www version re-directs to the non-www version, in effect removing the www prefix (See here for some history on the topic).

The following piece of code added to a .htaccess file achieves this nicely:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

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Today I was working on my band’s website, which is based on Wordpress. The site contains two different sidebars, 1 and 2. I encountered a problem when after I added the Search sidebar widget to sidebar 1, it was ‘used up’ and I could not add it to sidebar 2 also. After some brief searching and thinking, I realised what I could do.

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Having made the decision to use the comment system, I needed to then add some extra fields to the comment form, which would accept pieces of information that were part of the reviews. I searched around briefly for some information on the web regarding how to modify the Wordpress comment system, but could not find much, hence I have written the following short account of how to add custom field to the Wordpress comment system.

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I recently installed a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) setup on my copy of Windows Vista and set up an installation of Bamboo Invoice. I created an invoice to send to a client but then realised there was no PHP mail configuration. I couldn’t be bothered (and am not very expert) setting up a mail server on my computer, but it occurred to me that I could just reference the SMTP server provided by my ISP that I use for my usual email sending.

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Want to add functionality to your site/application so that upon hovering over a link to a site, a thumbnail image preview of the site will appear in a dynamic pop-up? Check out http://thumbnails.iwebtool.com.

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