January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Domain-Specific Redirects in WordPress Multisite

How to write an htaccess call to handle an entire mapped domain on WordPress Multisite.

Warning: This post has a pretty high geek factor.
You’ve been warned.

Since Otto (@ottodestruct) fixed the wordpress permalink issue in WordPress 3.3, when I moved christopherprice.com to a different WP install, I decided to eliminate the /%year%/ portion of the permalinks he recommended previously.

Since it is very bad for SEO to have previously ranked pages just disappear and show up at different URLs, I needed to set up a 301 redirect (permanent) instruction for each old URL to each new URL. For example:

http://domain.com/2011/post/ should now redirect all visitors (including Google spiders) to http://domain.com/post/.

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November 30, 2011 By 3 Comments

Gmail Exchange in iOS: Does the Trash Icon Delete or Archive?

Does the iPhone Gmail Exchange Trash icon Delete or Archive?I changed one of my gmail (Apps for Your Domain) accounts from the standard iOS gmail setup to an Exchange service. I did this primarily for push calendar syncing, but I noticed that following the change the iOS Mail app appeared different in subtle ways. In particular, the Archive icon was gone from my iPhone toolbar, replaced with a Trash icon. So, does the Trash icon Delete or Archive?

After digging for far too long, I excavated the table below from the depths of the Google support site. (Spoiler: It Archives.)

Action on mobile device/client (e.g. iPhone/Outlook) Result in Gmail on the web
Open a message Mark a message as read
Move message to Starred Apply a star to the message
Move a message to a folder Apply a label to the message
Move a message to Spam Report a message as spam
Move a message to Trash Message will be archived.
Send a message Store message in Sent Mail
Delete a message in inbox Move that message to Archive
Delete a message from a folder Remove that label from the message
Delete a message from [All Mail] Move the message to Trash
Delete a message from Spam or Trash Delete the message permanently

Source: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=161771

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May 14, 2011 By 2 Comments

Slow Script on iGoogle

I’ve been driven a little (more) nuts lately with my iGoogle popping up with the following slow script error:

Slow Script - Safari is no longer responding because of a script on the webpage “iGoogle” (http://partnerpage.google.com/denverboulder.com?tab=mS). Do you want to stop running the script, or let it continue?

Error text:

Slow Script – Safari is no longer responding because of a script on the webpage “iGoogle” (http://partnerpage.google.com/denverboulder.com?tab=mS). Do you want to stop running the script, or let it continue?

Here’s the solution…

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