After searching the internet far and wide for an iframe solution for WordPress, I mostly found uppity comments about how it was not secure, and you just should not use them.

Well, sometimes there are good uses for the iframe. Such as using an iframe for Google Calendar, or if a client uses some other third-party calendar provider and get their content through the use of the html tag iframe.

Remembering what I had to do to extend WordPress to be a more full-featured content management system, I took my cue and created a new page template. You could call it “calendar.php.”

It is in the template where I just chose to place all of my code for that page and pulled the iframe in rather nicely.

I used a PHP include to bring in the actual html, but I’m pretty sure it will work just putting the iframe code directly into the template file (though I have not tested that).

So if you’ve been beating your head against the wall looking for a way to get an iframe into the body of a WordPress page, this is a simple solution. Though one that is more technical than you should have to be for a content management system.

I found one example, but his solution did not work for me.

Taking his cue, however, I did implement SuperFish as a starting point.

Implementing SuperFish is pretty simple, so I’ll leave their documentation for that part of this “how to.”

After you get the SuperFish plugin working with wp_list_pages in WordPress, you run into a major problem with sIFR and any of the dropdown solutions for Wordpress. The CSS wp_list_pages creates is applied to the <li> tags, and sIFR will want to replace all of the sub-pages text as well as the text for the top level pages.

To get around this, I installed the plugin List Pages Plus and made a couple modifications.

Once you have the plugin activated, you need to edit the “list-pages-plus.php” file included. Change the following line:

$litem[$k] = "\n\t" . ‘<li class="’.$class1.$ac.’"><a href="’.$href1.’" title="’.$title1.$at.’">’.$pre.$text1.$post.’</a>’. "\n\t <ul> \n\t" .’<li class="’.$class2.$sac.’"><a href="’.$href2.$sah.’" title="’.$title2.$sat.’">’.$spre.$text2.$spost.’</a>’;

to:

$litem[$k] = "\n\t" . ‘<li class="’.$class1.$ac.’">’.$pre.’<a href="’.$href1.’" title="’.$title1.$at.’">’.$text1.’</a>’.$post. "\n\t <ul> \n\t" .’<li class="’.$class2.$sac.’"><a href="’.$href2.$sah.’" title="’.$title2.$sat.’">’.$spre.$text2.$spost.’</a>’;

And then change this line:

$litem[$k] = "\n\t" . ‘<li class="’.$class.$ac.’"><a href="’.$href.’" title="’.$title.$at.’">’.$pre.$text.$post.’</a>’;

endif;

to:

$litem[$k] = "\n\t" . ‘<li class="’.$class.$ac.’">’.$pre.’<a href="’.$href.’" title="’.$title.$at.’">’.$text.’</a>’.$post;

endif;

Now, if you really wanted to be complete, you should also change the position of the input box in the form for the admin, but it is not a necessary step. The hack will work whether it looks right in the admin form or not.

After you have made the above code changes, go into the settings for List Pages Plus and add <div class=navReplace> and </div> to the last two input fields for the parent item.

Now, change wp_list_pages to wp_list_pages_plus in your header file (or wherever you are implementing your dropdown menu with sIFR for the top level).

Your last step is to use the span tag as your selector for your sIFR replacements. Using the class example I gave above, your selector would be “.navReplace”

If you do the above, you can get sIFR working on your top level navigation items with dropdown menus.

You need to rename Firefox to something like Firefox Beta or Firefox Minefield to get MultiFirefox to recognize Minefield as a version of Firefox.

After renaming it and restarting multifirefox, you will be able to load Minefield and any other version of Firefox compatible with multifirefox.

After further analysis, we realized it was actually that the domains were being bombarded with spam to their accounts. Exim was raising the server load dramatically, because neither account had the default address set to :fail: no such address here.

By using :fail:, “the email is never accepted into the server. During the initial SMTP negotiation when the senders SMTP server connects to your SMTP server, the sending SMTP server issues a RCPT command notifying your server which email address the email to follow is intended for. Your server then checks whether the recipient email actually exists on your server (a POP3 account, an alias or a catchall alias) and if it does not, it issues an SMTP DENY which terminates the attempt to deliver the email.” (source: ConfigServer)

These two accounts were being bombarded in such a way that they actually brought the server to a crawl by not having the default address set to :fail:.

So in your cPanel installations, you should make sure the default address is set to :fail: for all accounts to ensure a safe, stable hosting environment.

In WHM, if you go to “Tweak Settings” under “Server Configuration,” you can set the default for new accounts to go to :fail: and prevent high server load from mail attacks.

GMail and Google Apps for Your Domain capacity is now 6 GB. That’s per user.

Using GMail and GA holds many benefits. If you configure it from your domain’s registrar console, your email will work even if your hosting provider is having troubles. It means less downtime for your emails.

Also, emails do not take up space on your server or hosting account. If a user does not download messages off the server, spam will quickly multiply. I’ve seen over a gig of spam in one user account before! Depending on your hosting package, you could be scratching your head wondering why you can’t upload your 200k picture to your website.

The GMail interface for webmail is second to none. Searching emails, organizing emails, sending/receiving, anything you want from a webmail client… GMail powers it better than any other free alternative I’ve used (and I’ve used most, if not all, of the major ones).

Now, my tabs can reflect groupings in my workflow. When I come back to the tab in the third position, I may want to open additional tabs related to the website contained therein. Rather than just opening new tabs at the end, I can now group them all together and bring a little more organization to my tabbed browsing.

A friend could not even access his wp-admin page, because of the glitch in the plug-in!

To the Bad Behavior author’s credit, he did issue a patched upgrade rather quickly. This is quite disturbing, however.

We noticed that this blog did not block us out of the main content or the admin, but it did prohibit MarsEdit from posting or retrieving posts. Very interesting. I’m not sure why the plug-in would only block certain types of access coming from the same IP. Because it was through MarsEdit, we did not see the standard Bad Behavior message. This makes it even more disturbing as we would have had no idea what was causing this failure in our offline blog editor.

WebGeek posts on “Bad Behavior Behaving Badly“:

This was no minor glitch, and something like this could have serious consequences for websites and businesses. If left unattended in this state for a long time, a site could lose valuable search engine rankings, after the spiders of the Big 3 (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) find that they are locked out repeatedly with 403 errors. It’s most likely that these losses would be temporary, but there’s no guarantee, and by that point the damage is done.

And the explanation comes from the Bad Behavior blog:

Update: Some people have asked for more details on what exactly happened. In brief, yesterday I moved all of my sites to a new dedicated server. In the process, I decommissioned an old blacklist I was running which I thought wasn’t being used, not realizing that Bad Behavior was still set to use it. Shortly afterward, I found myself locked out of my own blog, just as you all did. So therefore, this release.

WebGeek has recommended the removal of Bad Behavior from all blogs until stability can be assured. We agree, but suggest if you want to keep the updated version of Bad Behavior going on personal blogs you monitor closely, it will help to see if this plug-in has truly stabilized.

If you need to generate leads for business to business sales, you should seriously consider white papers.

One of our search engine marketing clients has built a tremendous business off of leads generated from white papers. While we explore demos, free trials, webinars, and anything else we can think of, white papers are the tried and true answer to lead generation.

To put it in technical terms, when we A/B test, white papers come out on top.

Most importantly, I am continually getting no love when I try to send email via Apple Mail. What happens at first, is that it looks like it is trying to send then several minutes later I’ll get an error message saying it couldn’t be sent and asking if I want to try another outgoing server.

Usually after this message, if I try again, the email will just send right away using the exact same settings. A friend of mine has reported the same issues with his Google Apps for Your Domain accounts.

And this problem does not seem to be limited to Google Apps. My GMail accounts are also suffering the same fate.

If you are having this problem, a temporary solution allowing you to send more quickly is to close Apple Mail and reopen it. Upon reopen, it always seems to send right away. Otherwise, you have to wait several minutes to get the error message before you can send again.

Another issue I’ve had is that my redirect for my webmail does not always work. All of my other subdomains pointing elsewhere work fine, but the Google Apps configuration has been frequently failing on me. If both of these issues persist, I may, sadly, have to leave Google Apps for Your Domain.