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Monthly archives: July 2010

Cloning vs copying virtual machines in VirtualBox

28 July 2010

VirtualBox is a great virtualization software but it is sometimes hard to do some advanced tasks in it. One of those tasks can be creating copies of virtual machines.

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Multiple blogs and multiple languages with WP Hive

23 July 2010

I have three sites on one WordPress installation thanks to great plugin called WP Hive. I’m not going to write about installation and configuration of this plugin because everything can be found on plugin page. I’ll just say that it’s very easy to setup and to use. However there can be one problem with WP Hive: it does not allow to have multiple blogs with different languages. But I found a simple solution for this and that’s why I’m writing this post :)

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Enabling SFTP update option for WordPress

12 July 2010

By default WordPress allows updates of itself, plugins and themes by FTP or FTPS connection. FTP is old and not very secure and should be avoided so it would be better to use much more secure connection type like SFTP (FTP over SSH). To make it available we need to install some packages on our server.

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Blog language change

12 July 2010

I’ve decided to change language of this blog to English. I think it’ll target more people and it’ll be good for me and my English language abilities. I’m sure there will be lot of mistakes and badly written sentences but it’s my way of learning :) Soon I’ll translate all old posts into English and from now on all further posts will be in English only.