I came across a post from Shoemoney awhile ago in which I learned about improving Wordpress performance with the wp-cache plugin.

I just want to point out that if you are using OpenAds within your Wordpress theme, using OpenAds’ PHP invocation code will result in not rotating between banners associated to your publisher zone until the cached pages are expired.

The only workaround is to use the Javascript invocation code but keep in mind that this may alter your website performance.

While for some people the native Wordpress editor may be sufficient, it’s kinda hard to make some more complex layouts with it’s basic functionnalities.

Integrating Javascript to your content is made impossible as the editor breaks the code and while you can enter some HTML code, it may be broken too as the Wordpress editor replaces some tags. For example, try adding a <div> and you’ll see that upon saving your post, <div> will be changed to a <p> tag.

TinyMCE Advanced Plugin

Wordpress uses TinyMCE, a Javascript content editor. If you’d like to keep using TinyMCE but would like to get advanced features, there’s the TinyMCE Advanced plugin available for free. This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Together these plugins can add over 40 new buttons to the toolbar.

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I just ran into a POP3 authentication problem on my new VPS running cPanel. When I tried to perform POP3 authentication, it always returned “-ERR authentication failed (Bass password?)”.

I found out that there were two POP3 daemon installed on my server and that the wrong one was called through xinetd. The VPS had been setup by my provider so I knew a bit less about it than when I install everything myself.

If you ever get this problem, here’s the solution:

1. Login to your Linux box via SSH as root.
2. Run the following command:vi /etc/xinetd.d/popa3d
3. Locate the line ‘disable = no’.
4. Change the line to read ‘disable = yes’.
5. Save and close the file by pressing ‘esc’ and typing ‘:wq’.
6. Now restart the xinetd service: ’service xinetd restart’.
7. Login to WHM and navigate to: WHM > Restart Services > Select the Link ‘POP3 Server (cppop)’.
8. When prompted to restart the service, select ‘Yes’.

You should now be able to access your cPanel email via POP3.