WordPress Theme Hacking: Twenty-Seventeen
Google Sites’ update put me in a bad situation. I’m pretty busy as is, but the new Sites doesn’t fit my needs as well as I would like. Not to mention that the old Sites was slow and unresponsive. So…
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Increasing WordPress File Size Limits
How do you increase the default wordpress file size limit? There are several different things to do: Increase the file size in Settings> Media or Network> Settings for multisite Increase the file size in php.ini () Find these settings and change…
WordFence New Functions and Errors
While trying to troubleshoot some JetPack issues today, I ran into a new WordFence issue. A couple, actually. Here are the problems and the solutions: WordFence does not cache WordPress anymore. They removed the Falcon cache. Use CloudFlare instead! Source…
Desktop SQL Editor
The other day, I accidentally overwrote an older post. Luckily, I have daily backups running, so it wasn’t too hard to get a backup SQL file. But my backups are all SQL files, so I had to think hard about…
WordPress Themes
I’m a big fan of the masonry/grid style layout of Pinterest, and I wanted to bring that look to my own websites. I started with DW Wallpress, which has a very nice layout. It’s not a full-width theme, though, limiting…
Facebook Logins
I’ve been playing around with Facebook Logins (Developer Apps) so that I can get social logins to work with WordPress. There have been a few problems with it so far: Facebook tells me there is an OAuth error, but it…
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.
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…