Enabling a Captcha for TikiWiki anonymous visitors Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor When administrating a wiki site with TikiWiki, you may want to allow anonymous visitors to edit your wiki content. When you allow anonymous visitors edit, you can potentially have unwanted robots edit your site, filling in spam and unwanted content. “Robots” or “Bots” are automated crawlers that scan websites. Some robots are designed to add Read More >
Adding a contact form to TikiWiki Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor TikiWiki has a built in contact form that can be enabled in your TikiWiki site. This contact form will allow visitors to contact your through a form on your website. This article explains the steps in setting up a simple contact form within your TikiWiki website. Configuring the TikiWiki contact form Log into TikiWiki. Click Read More >
Bypass firewalls with cPanel proxy subdomains Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this article I’m going to review connecting to your cPanel account’s various services, when there is a firewall on your computer or router not allowing a normal connection over the standard ports. There are several default services that come with your hosting account, these operate over a different port than the standard port 80 Read More >
Importing Blogger data into WordPress Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Customers that initially built their blog sites with Google Blogger (Blogspot) can have the blog information imported into their WordPress software by using the “Import” feature in the WordPress dashboard. WordPress has a built in “Import” feature that allows you to import different blogs like Blogspot, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and even WordPress. The import process is Read More >
How to create an image preview style in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell After learning how to set the Image Style Preview in the last article, you may need or want a bit more customized image style. Perhaps you want to add a setting between thumbnail and medium, or even one larger than the current large setting. There is a setting in Drupal 7 that allows you to Read More >
WordPress: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell If you are updating your WordPress site via the automatic update script, you may run across an anomaly where you receive a maintenance message on your site. The message reads “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” and occurs on every page on your site, including the admin login. While this message is supposed to be temporary, Read More >
How to add images and image links to your WordPress sidebar Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell The sidebar is a wonderful piece of real estate on your site to place relevant content that may not fit directly on a page or post. Most content in a sidebar is text, however you can certainly add some diversity by making some of those text links into buttons or image links. Adding an image Read More >
Adding Meta Data to your WordPress sidebar Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell The sidebar of a website, although traditionally used for navigation links and ads, can be used for any data you would like to place there. The most common use in WordPress is to display other posts links, archives, and categories for further navigation into the site. You can, however, use the sidebar to put anything Read More >
Adding Nested Links to your sidebar in WordPress Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Default and older WordPress themes use nested lists to present their sidebar information. A nested list is simply a list of unordered items inside one another. A simple example of a nested list is below: Flowers Lilies Roses Dogs Boxer Poodle You may have your own nested lists you wish to add to your sidebar Read More >
Basic MediaWiki site overview Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor What is MediaWiki? MediaWiki is a free open source software designed to provide free information on the web. A major website online that uses MediaWiki is Wikipedia. Wikimedia developed MediaWiki by developing Wikipedia and Wiktionary. If you are developing a site that is intended for multiple users to edit the content and to provide free Read More >
Creating an Image Gallery in MediaWiki Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Along with adding images in your MediaWiki articles, you can also add an image gallery to you MediaWiki page. Formatting the image gallery in MediaWiki is a little different than formatting individual images. For information on how to insert images into MediaWiki pages, please see our tutorial on How to insert images into MediaWiki. The Read More >
Formatting images in MediaWiki Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor If you do not know how to insert an image in MediaWiki, please see the previous article on how to insert images in MediaWiki. Formatting images in MediaWiki requires special wiki code to be inserted into your image code. Unfortunately, MediaWiki does not have the code built into their WYSIWYG editor. The following table will Read More >
How to get help for programs from external forums Updated on March 12, 2025 by Scott Mitchell While we do our best to help each customer with their problems regarding the program they are using, there are times when you may need to consult those who know the ins and outs of your particular program better than we do. While we can help with most programs’ general settings and behavior, and most Read More >
How to install a new theme in SMF 2.0 Updated on February 23, 2022 by Scott Mitchell When working with your SMF community forum website, you will work hard to make it stand out. The most popular way to customize the site is to install a new theme, sometimes called a template. Themes and templates come in many different styles, so you may need to try a few to decide which is Read More >
How to insert images into MediaWiki Updated on February 21, 2022 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Inserting images in MediaWiki takes a few steps to accomplish. First the file needs to be uploaded. Then you will need to insert the code in the page that places the image in the content. This article will explain the steps to upload and insert images into your MediaWiki pages. Important! If you have not Read More >
How to edit the footer in SMF 2.0 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Does the footer area of your website seem like wasted space? If you would like to add some links or images to your footer area, you can do so by editing the template in your SMF admin dashboard. You can also remove the links and version number as well, giving you some more space. While Read More >
Adding and removing redirects in MediaWiki Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor When renaming, deleting and restoring pages in MediaWiki, it is necessary to know how to redirect URL’s that are no longer working. When visitors bookmark pages or Google caches your old pages, they will get a “404 not found” error when looking for the old link. This makes it necessary to create a redirect in Read More >
Adding pages to MediaWiki namespaces Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor After learning how to create a MediaWiki page, you can organize your pages into namespaces. Namespaces in MediaWiki are similar to categories in that when you create pages and they can be stored in certain page locations. For example, You can have “How to?” pages stored in the “Help” namespace, or you can have discussions Read More >
How to edit MediaWiki pages Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor MediaWiki by default allows anyone to register and add content to your wiki site. Editing pages is fairly straight forward and is a basic function of managing a wiki. This article will explain the basics of how to edit your MediaWiki pages. How to edit the Main page The Main page is the home page Read More >
Deleting and restoring pages in MediaWiki Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Pages can be deleted or removed from MediaWiki when spammers, abusers, and vandals deface pages or create unwanted pages on your site. When “deleting” a page, the page is actually not deleted. MediaWiki will remove the page from the site In the event a page was deleted by accident, you can restore the page from Read More >
