How Do I Embed My Chatroom Onto My Website?
One of the more frequent questions we see is people wondering how do they embed their chatroom on their website, and more often than not, it’s run off of WordPress. Although I wrote this while going...
View ArticleWhat Do YOU Want To See?
My week long break from courses is coming up soon, and I have nothing to do for it. So I figured that I would put a day or two towards GeekShed. The only problem is that I don’t know what I should do....
View ArticleCan I Link Two Channels?
One question that is routinely asked in #help is how a channel owner can forward users from one channel to another. They usually ask this because they have changed channel names, and there is no other...
View ArticleGrouping a Nick: Why and How?
So you’ve registered your nick, but have more than one computer/device that you join IRC from. You might be wondering “do I need to register a new nick and have people add that nick to access lists as...
View ArticleWhat is SSL? What Benefits Does it Offer, and How do I Use It?
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, and is a method of encrypting data being transmitted over the Internet that is used by e-commerce sites and other sites that require sending and receiving sensitive...
View ArticleCan I Make A Private/Secret/Restricted Channel?
At least twice a month, someone will come into #help asking about private channels or how they can secure their channel to prevent anyone except those they want in it. Since there are probably those...
View ArticleIntroducing GeekShed Embed: A WordPress Plugin
After helping many people who were having trouble adding the TFlash chat client to their WordPress powered website, I decided to write a plugin that would create a shortcode that people can use to...
View ArticleGeekShed Embed v2
EDIT: This post is about a WordPress plugin that has been written. It is NOT about the TFlash client itself. No updates for the TFlash client are planned at this time. About six months ago, I (Ryan...
View ArticleIf You Use The Mibbit Chat Widget…
If you use the Mibbit chat widget on your site, please ensure that server messages are visible to users. Having it disabled makes it so the server and services messages to the user are not displayed,...
View ArticleGeekShed Embed v2 Released
NOTE: This is a plugin for users of the self hosted wordpress.org software; it is not for users of wordpress.com. (Although I would love it if at some point in time… well, that’s me dreaming…) As I...
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