Learning during COVID-19
Many years have I been dancing around…
web design
Schema and SEO
Today was a massive amount of work on two clients websites.
WordPress Option Page/ Settings API and Meta Boxes
I spent several hours on a new project and kept hitting walls…
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.
Recovering from WordPress 5.5 crash
Backups are so important even if…
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 …
How to Add Social Icons to a WordPress Menu with CSS and Flex
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 didn’t want to have one more plugin on the website. First create and name your social menu as Follow Us and add each social name …
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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 …
Hugo, maybe
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 for my current design. This will be a slow-moving project.