Archive for the ‘tools’ Category


Magazine style automatically updated WordPress blogs

I’ve been wanting a magazine style template for my main website splash page for about six months. And I’d been wondering how those scrapers, scraped you rss feed into their blog. Sometimes procrastination is a good thing when I finally got around to looking into it all I found most of the pieces [...]

Magpierss allows you to easily build portals

TimesToCome was once a bleeding edge website. The splash page had a black starry background with a javascript ufo flying around as any self respecting cool website did in the 1990s. Times changed, and animations fell from favor so it went static. Over time the designs changed but the splash page remained [...]

Woopra free analytics software for your website

Many web hosts charge extra for log file access or don’t offer log file access at all. If this is true for you check out Woopra.
Woopra provides live information, not daily like Google analytics. It has a wonderful interface and is painless to install. You just add the appropriate plugin or javascript [...]

PHP log parsers to make it easier to find trouble in your access-log

While doing research for the WordPress Security Suite ( Prevent Bot Registrations, Prevent bots, scrapers and other badness on your WordPress blog ) I needed some tools to pull agents, user requests and ip numbers from my log files and just give me a list of the unique ones of each.
So I wrote 3 PHP [...]