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September 29th, 2006

Solutions for Failing Eyesight

Don’t make the font size larger — zoom it!

Yesterday, I reread a blog entry I wrote earlier this year about my failing eyesight (“The Eyes Had It“). My far vision has always been bad, but now I’m beginning to lose my close vision, too. Miraz, my co-author on the WordPress book, commented that

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September 29th, 2006

Automating WordPress Database Backups with WP-Cron

Take all the effort out of backing up.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article explaining how to back up a WordPress database. This is something that all WordPress users should be doing regularly.

But if you’re like me, you just don’t think about manual backups. I went through a spell where I

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