Work-life balance
I’m so grateful for the work that I’ve been doing for the last few weeks. It has been a wonderful project that has kept me…
I’m so grateful for the work that I’ve been doing for the last few weeks. It has been a wonderful project that has kept me…
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…
I was reading a short post on a friend’s site and he mentioned “lost hobbies.” Here’s my compilation of…
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 …
How to Add Social Icons to a WordPress Menu with CSS and Flex Read More »
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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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 …
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 using Jekyll and I’ve set it up where it just works for well for my needs. I have at least two websites using Gutenberg, one …
If you haven’t read my first post in this series, The Basics of WordPress Security, read it now then come back here. The second line of defense is your installation of WordPress. I’ll get into the nitty-gritty of the installation in this post. You all know about those easy-to-use install services on your hosting platform …