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There’s a great thinkpiece by Justin Tadlock over at WP Tavern (read it, dammit!) in response to Aaron Jorbin’s recent post at The Daily Jorbin on whether MAGA hats should be banned from WordCamps. And, like thinkpieces are meant to do, it’s got me thinkin’. Are MAGA hats hate speech, or are they expressions of …
I won’t do business with companies that enable terrorism and hate.
Introduction This post is about how to move a WordPress website from your computer to a live server, from start to finish, mostly manually but making quick use of one plugin along the way. Table of Contents Tools mentioned 1. Export your database from your local development server 2. Locate your site files 3. Connect …
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An account of my month-long experience as a trial Happiness Engineer for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.
This just in from Wordfence. Are you using any of these six plugins? If so, fix ’em.
A few months ago, I agreed to take on a WP site that had been put together by someone else a few years earlier and then abandoned. The core files and plugins were all badly outdated. The reason that was dangerous, as I explained to the site owners, was because old files are vulnerable. As …
A couple of years ago I started trying to figure out how to use this version of javascript called jQuery. I’d heard a lot about it, and had seen it in action in a few places, and I thought it was really cool. I had little trouble using it on regular HTML pages, but when …
The problem with most WP plugins is that they break. This is a list of the best-coded plugins out there… which is a kind of list I haven’t seen before.
I’ve been interested in the concept of universal access in web design for some time, since much of the work I’ve done in education has involved teaching adults with learning challenges. (Actually, the more I teach, the more it seems that people with so-called challenges outnumber the people without them, which suggests to me the …
I don’t know what people imagine the life of a modern novelist to be like, but the fact is, I’ve got my fingers in a lot of different pies besides writing. Once, I thought that being a professional writer meant never having to do anything other than write. I realized after a while that just …
