WordPress - Best of Breed

It’s a simple as the title of this post…”Best of Breed”. When it comes to online blogging applications, WordPress is Best of Breed.

It’s free! But that does not make it great, just easily accessible.

It has a huge following! Have a WordPress question? It’s answered in a couple hours on their forum. Need some advanced help? You can find easily a WordPress pro online in minutes. Need some special feature? There’s a very good chance that someone else as already had that need too. You’ll likely find that there is a plugin already written for your feature.
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Setup an IDN in WHM/CPanel

I recently ran across a question where the user wanted to setup an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) in WHM/Cpanel. For those wondering, an IDN is a domain name that uses non-ASCII characters, such as ñ, ü, ý, etc. I learned that the process to setup such a domain in WHM/Cpanel is quite simple.

To setup the domain in WHM, you first need to convert the IDN domain name to Punycode. For example the non-ASCII domain name “xn--fsher-kva.com” converts to the punycode version, “xn--fsher-kva.com”. Once you have the punycode version of the domain, you’re set to go. Just make sure account username does not use punycode or any non-ACII characters. Just use plain ASCII characters for usernames. Continue Reading »