Google and iFrames
Well, apparently, WordPress supports iframes by default now. I updated an old post that needed an iframe, and spent a lot of time looking for plugins for it, but it turns out, that wasn’t necessary. Read more here.
New Balance Kids Shoes in Japan
Just a note from the notes file: New Balance shoes in Japan run in different shoe widths, but for kids, the widths are not stated. However, the codes for shoes is a hint for width: 300-series shoes are more narrow…
Translation: 給与収入
Just a note for something floating around in my notes page: 給与収入 is a term that one may come upon when dealing with Japanese taxes. It means employment income. 給与所得 is a related term that means something like taxable income.…
WordPress, Hotlinking, and Cloudflare
I was wondering what happened to the sites I was running the other day. Why didn’t my images show up? I re/un/installed speed booster pack, some lazy image loader plugin, and whatnot. It took a long time. Then I realized…
WordPress and Special Characters
Starting from yesterday, I had a terrible time trying to figure out what was wrong with WordPress. I couldn’t login as my usual user, which uses a special character in the username. Actually, I got blocked by WordFence because it…
Best WordPress Drag-and-Drop Editor Plugins
Chris Lema reviews a few drag-and-drop visual WordPress editors on his website. Of course, paid options are the highest scoring. But a few, such as PageBuilder by SiteOrigins and Make, can also be had for free. Look at his site…
XPS Function Keys
Dell XPS laptops all have mixed function and media function keys. For the XPS 11, the special functions are turned on by default, with F-key functions requiring the Fn + F-key combination. This can be pretty annoying for those that…
Cloudflare and WordFence
If you are using Cloudflare and Wordfence, be sure to use the “CF-Connecting-IP” HTTP header setting. By not doing so, I blocked Cloudflare (and the world) from accessing my site. Big mistake! I was locked out of my own site,…
Open Media Vault: Part 1: Installation
This year, I got a Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a gift and thought about purposing it to act as 1) a network drive, 2) a media server, and 3) an OpenVPN server. The day I got it, the Raspberry…
Resolving the “iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone” Error
Sometimes iTunes will throw an error saying “iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone”. This can be an extremely frustrating error, especially since iTunes will want to restore a device, deleting all the new media and settings since the…