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[23 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

If you have a website, sometimes you would want to block visitors coming from a country. For example you are running a promotion for certain countries and you don’t want visitors from other country to see it. Other than that, many years ago when I was in the e-book selling business, there are two countries (I am not going to reveal) which has very high chargeback cases, meaning they buy with their credit card and then inform their credit card company that they did not authorize the charge. The credit …

PHP Hacking, Password Recovery »

[4 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Fortunately resetting the Wordpress administrator password is very easy through phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL using your web browser. If you don’t have one, I’d suggest you to ask your server administrator to install one.
Once you’re logged in to phpMyAdmin, you need to make sure you’re editing the Wordpress database that you’re supposed to. The list of database should appear on the left pane. Click on it to select the database.
Once you’ve done that, click on wp_users on …