I followed my previous tutorial until I had to use these additional commands to continue. There was a DOS installation that I chose the default/recommended answers wherever I was in …
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Many years have I been dancing around…
Today was a massive amount of work on two clients websites.
I spent several hours on a new project and kept hitting walls…
I kept seeing a notice on WordPress Site Health about PHP needing an update. On Ubuntu, it was showing 7.4 as the PHP version but not in WordPress.
Backups are so important even if…
Last week, I built an AJAX form into a WordPress plugin. It was working until I found out this week that it wasn’t working the way it should have by …
There are a few WordPress plugins available for doing this but I wanted to create a custom menu with custom icons for the custom theme I am building and also …
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This is my third entry in my WordPress security series. The $ in the code blocks represents the command line prompt. Ctrl+C will clear page logs when they hide the …
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May 19, 2018 is the date that I moved from WordPress to Jekyll. And it’s been a good learning experience. There’s one more platform that I feel comfortable with and …
Finally showing interest in exploring Hugo with GitLab or Netlify. Started looking through it last night and going through all the available themes on GoHugo to use as a starter …
I’ve seen so many posts on the pros and cons of Gutenberg thanks to Khürt Williams sharing links with me on email and in his blog. Thankfully, my blog is …
This was written in response to an email question. I’m paraphrasing the question. I’m just trying to figure out how to get on the web with very little expense…. I …
For four years, I saw WordPress from all angles, then in the last of four I started to think that installing it would be easier because from the beginning it …
I had to change my workflow because I am new to the right way of doing this and I’m finding my groove in all of it. First, I was pushing …
Occasionally this site appears down and if reloaded several times, a “connection timeout” with 500 comes up. I thought I had fixed this. I went back into my cPanel and …