Free VNC server software on Windows

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RealVNC only gives free version to personal usage of their server software while it limits the functions. Could you suggest some good free VNC server software with full functions? TightVNC is an open-source software for VNC with servers and clients. You can download the server software for Windows from TightVNC download page: http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php The software
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How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects?

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I recently changes the media aspects. The problem is that the existing thumbnails are not changed to the new aspects. How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects? The “Regenerate Thumbnails” works like a charm for me: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ . It allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail
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How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE?

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How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE? You can configure Google CSE to read the query variable (by default, it is q). Then, in your WordPress’s .htaccess file, add these 2 lines RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^ https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz&q=%1 [R,L] Here, “https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz” is your CSE’s public URL or the webpage that contains the Google
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How to allow pre tag in WordPress comments?

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How to allow pre tag in WordPress comments? You can add a filter hook for pre_comment_approved: <?php function filter_handler( $approved , $commentdata ) { // inspect $commentdata to determine approval, disapproval, or spam status return $approved; } add_filter( ‘pre_comment_approved’ , ‘filter_handler’ , ’99’, 2 ); ?> Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/pre_comment_approved

Programming language popularity indices?

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Any good programming language popularity indices? Those are interesting ones: TIOBE Indexhttp://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014 This ranking is published as blog posts. So no persistent homepage found yet. The January 2014 version is: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/01/22/language-rankings-1-14/ Programming Language Popularityhttp://langpop.com/

Installing WordPress in a sub directory while working for the whole site

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How to install WordPress in a sub directory while working for the whole site? Putting the WordPress files in the root directory seems messy. A method is introduced here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory The process to move WordPress into its own directory is as follows: Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we
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Excerpt in homepage, category, tag and author pages for WordPress theme Twenty Thriteen

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Excerpt in homepage, category, tag and author pages for WordPress theme Twenty Thriteen. Also add the “read more” link after the excerpt. The patch: diff –git a/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php b/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php index 4f61b22..53b4686 100644 — a/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php +++ b/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/content.php @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ </div><!– .entry-meta –> </header><!– .entry-header –> – <?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display
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Installing Fedora 19, Error “you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device”

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Installing Fedora 19, Error “you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device” . It seems appear from Fedora 15: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=271743 This can be solved by adding noefi nogpt to the kernel parameters when booting the Linux for installation in grub as follows. Note: the “_” between nogpt and root is the cursor, not the
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How to change the maximum execution time and memory size allowed for PHP

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I see this message in the error log of httpd: PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in and PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted How to change them to a longer and larger value? To change the allowed maximum memory usage of PHP: Set memory_limit = 256M
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How to install WordPress on Fedora 19

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How to install the latest WordPress on a newly installed Fedora 19? Thanks! First, install the LAMP (you already have ‘L’) stack: # yum install httpd php php-mysql mysql-server php-gd and start these services: # systemctl start mysqld.service httpd.service Then, install WordPress on the LAMP stack following the tutorials on the Web. Two good ones
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How to delete all topics and posts from a user/spammer in myBB?

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This is a tutorial on “how to delete all topics and posts from a user/spammer in myBB”. Please check out the answer. I use the Goodbye Spammer plugin for MyBB. First, install it after downloading the plugin form its homepage: Upload ./inc/plugins/goodbyespammer.php to ./inc/plugins/ Upload ./inc/languages/english/goodbyespammer.lang.php to ./inc/languages/english/ Go to ACP > Plugins > Activate
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Question2answer: show excerpt in the RSS feed

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There is a “Include full text in feeds:” option in the “RSS feeds” configuration panel but no options/method to only show excerpt instead of the “full text” or nothing for RSS feeds. This need to hack the question2answer source code. Details are in the answer. The changes based on Question2asnwer 1.5.4: diff –git a/qa-include/qa-index.php b/qa-include/qa-index.php
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WordPress: How to use Markdown for writing posts

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I like the Markdown editor whick is widely used (e.g. This site) and very convenient to use. How to add a Markdown editor for WordPress? I tried some plugins and find they have their strengthens and disadvantages. Here are my requirements: Compatible with my existing posts. They should still display well. I can accept minimum
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