nopCommerce Video Tips: Setting Up nopCommerce in Visual Studio 2012

Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 12:00 pm

Hi! Well, after writing over 170 articles here at Arvixe, I’ve decided to try a new approach. While some people learn better by reading, others find watching a live video to be more instructive. As a result, we’ll be publishing a series of videos covering various mojoPortal topics. If there’s a topic you’d like to see covered, just shoot me a line at [email protected], with the subject line: “Arvixe Tutorial Topic Suggestion”. Enjoy!

Today, we’ll go over how to set up nopCommerce in Visual Studio 2012.

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How to Disable YouTube Related Videos in phpFox

Written by Stephanie Brown Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 12:00 pm

This article will show you how to disable the “YouTube related videos” when a YouTube video is shared on your phpFox website.

By default, when a video is shared on your phpFox website via YouTube, YouTube shows related videos at the end of viewing the video.  You can disable this related videos with a simple change in the admincp.

Login to your admincp, and type related in the search box in the top right of the admincp.  Select the Disable YouTube Related Videos Global Setting.

Prevent Malicious Bots/Spiders From Accessing Your Site Using .htaccess

Written by Khaleel Demeri Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 12:00 am

There are various types of bots and spiders that transverse sites for different reasons. Among them activities such as email harvesting and other malicious activity. By using a .htaccess file, you can block the majority of well know malicious bots.

Bad bots typically ignore the wishes of your robots.txt file, so you’ll want to ban them using means such as .htaccess. The trick is to identify a bad bot. Below is a useful code block you can insert into .htaccess file for blocking a lot of the known bad bots and site rippers currently out there.

How to Remove Notifications Link from Scrollable Header Box in Clip-Bucket v2

Written by Richi González Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 12:00 pm

Hello,

As you may have noticed already, notifications have literally no use in Clip-Bucket. The main developer, Arslan Hassan, even said once in a post at the Clip-Bucket forum, that the notifications system was a feature he wanted to implement, yet never had the time to finish it. So let’s free some space up there in the header box by removing the link to them. This article applies for those who use the default cbv2new template. These instructions may be exact for the whole v2 branch.

Disappearing Articles in MODX

Written by Bob Ray Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 12:00 pm

It’s time to create new post in your MODX Articles Blog. You right-click on your blog container in the tree and select “Write New Article.” The form to create a new blog post comes up, you spend an hour or two writing your blog post, set it as published, and click on the “Save” button. Now, you go to the front end and look at your blog. The new article is not there. You go to back to the Manager and navigate to the Manage Articles panel. It’s not there either, nor is it in the Resources tree at the left. Is all your work lost forever? What happened?