There are times when little problems pop up using WordPress that you just might not expect. Most users don’t know or care about what character encoding their computer and browser are using but when that character encoding is different from what WordPress uses it can lead to some odd problems. Usually the tell tale sign… Continue Reading
As long as there has been the ability to leave comments on websites there has been spam. I recall creating a guestbook for a client once and even though the guestbook used a captcha it did not take long before it started to become overwhelmed with spammy comments. Fighting spam has become so difficult in… Continue Reading
I just recently got back from Disneyland with my family and if there is one thing Disneyland does well it is managing crowds and people in the parks and rides. I am sure Disney does a great deal of testing to discover how best to manage the people and crowds at their parks and that… Continue Reading
WordPress is a great content management system but there are still times when you either just want to add a page to your website that is not a part of WordPress or when perhaps you just want to give make sure all the pages on your website whether they are in WordPress or not all… Continue Reading
One of the pieces of advice I usually give people about their website is to take it seriously. Think about it, your website is the public face of your business to the world if you don’t take it seriously then why would anyone else take you seriously. It can be hard to take your website… Continue Reading
I love working with WordPress, it makes so many things easier for clients and it gives me as a web developer a great deal of flexibility to extend and offer to clients what they need for their websites. Unfortunately there are also times working with WordPress makes me scratch my head, this was one of… Continue Reading
If there is one thing I hate it is when my clients websites go down. I work hard to keep the server software and client websites software up to date to keep the sites up and the servers running as best as they can. There are things outside of my control that can make all… Continue Reading
I don’t travel down to the United States very often but when I do get down there it is always nice to be able to stay connected. Unfortunately the mobile companies here in Canada like to charge fairly exorbitant prices for their roaming into the US. The last trip we took as a family I… Continue Reading
Adding the rel=”nofollow” on links in WordPress can be a pain especially if you want some links to be nofollow and some to be followed. Thankfully with the WordPress Rel Nofollow Checkbox plugin you can simply create your links how you normally would and just select the checkbox if you would like it to be… Continue Reading
I published a post yesterday over on Cloud Storage Buzz listing 10 ways to backup your website to the cloud. There are a lot of services out there that can help you protect your website and while many of the services I mentioned at Cloud Storage Buzz will help you keep a regular backup of… Continue Reading