Category Archives: Technical Aids

This section provides a place for issues I run across in various situations. It’s more of a misc are to house these solutions

WordPress: Redirect Https To Http On My Site?

I had the biggest problem with this for the longest time. My WordPress site would occasionally strap on a nasty https: to some of my posts for no reason, which seemed to mess with some of my page results.

After trying different .htaccess suggestions, this one seemed to work for me (Apache Server configuration)

In any case, add this snippet of code to your .htaccess file located in root. (paste at top)

# redirect all https requests to http
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L] Continue reading WordPress: Redirect Https To Http On My Site?

Enabling Google Pagerank in Internet Explorer (where is it?)

I just installed the Google toolbar, where did Page rank go???

OK, I wont go into the semantics of if PR is important or not, you can read more on Pagerank

Simply, this article is on how to get PR to show in your Google tool bar?
(just so you know it’s been somewhat hidden)

01- Install Google ToolBar

02- Right click on Google Toolbar and select “Google Toolbar Options
(you can also click on the wrench icon

03- per the illustration, click on PRIVACY, and check the Google Page rank boxes (see image)

04- SAVE Continue reading Enabling Google Pagerank in Internet Explorer (where is it?)

Transfer my domain FROM Network Solutions to another ISP


Hope this helps if you got stuck like me. The section for doing this is created NOT that obvious really complicating things when you want to move your domain to another ISP

Authorization Code:
Please note when it gets down to #7, you can call (1-877-496-4994) to get your Authorization Code or do so thru this same section

01Sign on

02– click MANAGE ACCOUNT

03– click on tab “MY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

04– Now under the title that says “Find All of Your Products Below“, you’ll see in Blue –  “MY DOMAIN NAMES“, Click this

05– Now you should be in a section called DOMAIN NAMES, you’ll want to scroll almost to the bottom in the section that says
Details for yoursite.com (see my illustration) Continue reading Transfer my domain FROM Network Solutions to another ISP