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Parallels Panel key update deferral notification

Updated 06/02/2012 For just under a year now i’ve been getting a daily mail from the Plesk daily maintenance script titled Parallels Panel key update deferral notification With the following in the body of the message. Unable to update . An error occurred while processing your key. You can try updating it later. This problem… Continue Reading

WordPress categories not working

I recently encountered a problem where categories on this blog suddenly stopped working. Apparently it’s quite a common problem where both categories and tags stop working. In my case it was only categories. Tags continued to work perfectly. As it turns out, the cause of the problem was a plugin called Advanced Permalinks. I had… Continue Reading

Taking a snapshot/backup of WordPress from the command line on a Plesk server

I quite regularly need to take quick backups of a WordPress installation while working on a Plesk server. Here’s a script I created that will dump the DB as well as backup the WordPress directory where the site files are in. The concept is easy, execution was a little more complicated since Plesk can now… Continue Reading

Shopp plugin – Blank payment settings

If you use both the excellent WordPress plugins Membership (from WPMU Dev) and Shopp together, you will encounter problems with the PayPal Express payment module in Shopp as they both share a common class name. Symptoms include no payment options in Shopp’s payment settings and the following error message in the logs: mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP… Continue Reading

FXD Pegasus Manipulator 4

Last updated 02/11/2011 Overview The FXD Pegasus Manipulator 4 is one of the more popular 4 channel 2.4 GHZ co-axial RC helicopters in it’s class. Released in 2011, what makes it so popular is it’s performance in this price range. Its available in shops for around $130 AUD or around half the price on eBay…. Continue Reading