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Dec 20, 2024

I am not going to go into depth about the level of stupidity that is going on in the WordPress community. If you want to read all about it TechCrunch has a nice overview of the whole thing. For the most part I think the whole thing is nothing more ...

Oct 16, 2023

One of the first steps I had to sort out in deciding to move from WordPress/ClassicPress to Astro is how do I get the content out of WordPress/ClassicPress to a format that Astro would be able to deal with. Fortunately Astro accepts content in markdown so a quick search for ...

Oct 15, 2023

This has been in the works for awhile, but it was finally time to move from ClassicPress to Astro. The site is not complete yet, but I have ported the posts and several pages over and I feel confident that most of the content is here. I am still in ...

Jan 25, 2023

Most of the WordPress/ClassicPress websites I work on use Cloudflare I don't often have problems with the W3 Total Cache footer comments in the footer. Cloudflare usually just removes them. But recently I was helping a friend with a website that had the W3 Total Cache plugin installed and the ...

Jul 28, 2021

Recently I had a client come to me with a very interesting problem. They have multiple web servers running behind a Cloudflare load balancer and the majority of those requests flow through the load balancer and are directed properly. However, there were still a number of requests that would make ...

Jan 12, 2019

Helping people with their websites over the years has, for the most part, gotten easier. It got a lot easier when I started recommending to clients to use WordPress. It was simple, people could look at the editing screen and easily add/edit their content. That all changed when Automattic and ...

Nov 20, 2018

I have been testing the WordPress 5 Beta's since they came out and prior to that I had installed the new Gutenberg plugin on a test website just to get a sense of what is coming in WordPress and I have to say that the future of WordPress is a ...

Jun 11, 2018

For the record I am not a lawyer and I will not guarantee that any of the content below will help you in being GDPR compliant. Normally I don't pay a lot of attention to laws coming out of the European Union, because frankly I live in Canada and for the ...

Oct 21, 2017

If you are just starting out with WordPress it can be daunting. The huge amount of themes and plugins to choose from is huge, not to mention the learning curve of purchasing a domain name, setting up your hosting, installing WordPress and eventually getting to writing and publishing your website. ...

Aug 31, 2017

It was not long ago that I was looking for a way to block visitors from some countries on some of my clients websites. The sites really only needed to be accessible from North America and did not need to be exposed to the extra visitors, bandwidth and possible hackers ...