Category: web design
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Update to PHP 8.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 on Digital Ocean for WordPress
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 doubt and I chose to keep my original configuration on one of the DOS pages. The packages below I found by using the commands in […]
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Learning during COVID-19
Many years have I been dancing around…
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Schema and SEO
Today was a massive amount of work on two clients websites.
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WordPress Option Page/ Settings API and Meta Boxes
I spent several hours on a new project and kept hitting walls…
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Update to PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 on Digital Ocean for WordPress
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.
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Recovering from WordPress 5.5 crash
Backups are so important even if…
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Javascript, AJAX, and Church
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 my understanding…so I was bummed out and my day reached a low point in addition to some other choices I had to make. But at […]
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Hardening WordPress Security on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu Server Droplet
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 command line prompt. Use arrow keys in nano editor to move through file. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS at the time of this writing. Update all installed […]
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Conducive
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 it’s a good replacement for simple websites that don’t need comments or lots of updates. Jekyll is flexible, so much function can be easily built […]