UBB.threads and Wordpress experts

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Google’s Pagespeed recommend using a CDN to reduce load times, but ignored it for whatever reasons. I finally bit the bullet and signed up for MaxCDN’s service, then implemented it on 2 of my websites. The first website was VAGunTrader, where the traffic is very high ( approximately […]

I’ve been looking at this puppy and finally pulled the trigger the other day. It is an intelligent thermostat from Nest that learns your habits over time and acts accordingly. The overall goal is to watch energy used to heat and cool the house and to be as efficient as possible. So far, I must […]

I just finished up a remake of a highly trafficked UBB.Threads forum and it turned out very well. The UBB.Threads forums are the number one ranked for their category on Google, but the front portal was an aging Joomla install. Enter WordPress. With a very nice theme to start from (Glance ) and some custom […]

I’ve had quite a few customers request a custom BBCode for Vimeo, so rather than go into a long post about it, I will post the file and some short instructions on how to implement. There are really two ways to add a Custom Tag. One being to manually type all the appropriate fields in […]

A forum that I consult to ( SimHQ ), recently informed me that YouTube has changed the URL format for when you click the “Share” Link below the video. It no longer matches the URL in the address bar and this was causing some confusion. The URL in the address bar is the still the […]

From what I’ve seen, the naysayers win in most cases and it ends up with the forum turning off the option entirely. Whoever wants it, just can’t get it. Matter of fact, this is the case over at Ubb.central right now ( I posted the solution there as well ). It’s turned off for whatever […]

A feature that has always been needed on ubb.threads is a simple way to upload images directly into a new post without having to either upload to a gallery forum first or a popular picture sharing site, then link to it. There are other methods too, including having a companion photopost installation that links the […]

Ubb.threads has a very underused, but powerful capability in what are called “Custom Islands”. You essentially can have a php code module be scheduled to run at whatever interval you want to produce output to be used as one of the custom islands (left or right) on your forums. I was recently asked to provide […]