The US rank and traffic site compete.com has just undergone a major makeover. The data are now presented much nicer than earlier and you can extract graphs to put on your own site if you feel the urge;

A while back the international competitor, Alexa.com, did something similar but I think Compete is way ahead this time when it comes to user interface.

The only main downside is that most of the data on compete.com requires you buying a Pro account which most people (myself included) can’t afford.

Should all these data be free and available for everyone? And what’s your opinion on these traffic/rank sites? Feel free to share your thoughts/concerns/ideas in the comments below.

Recently I’ve been building various custom form plugins for WordPress. And even if it all seemed to work properly I would get an “404 page not found” error instead of my “thank you page”. I know I’m not the only one as this has been reported before.

The reason this happens is basically due to the fact that some form values should NOT be used as they will cause a conflict with the variables passed by WordPress itself. Among them are values like: name, day, year etc.

So, if you are running in to this issue/bug yourself you can isolate the “forbidden” values by simply filling in one value on the form after another and performing a quick submit between each and every one. As soon as you get the 404 error you will know you’ve found one (of potentially several) values you will have to rename.

What you need to do then is give your form field (e.g. text input, textarea or select box) a new name. A field named “year” could then be passed on as “dyear” or similar. Nothing more to it actually.

Please feel free to comment should I’ve left something out, or leave a thank you if I saved you some headaches and time

Happy coding!

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