I ask you who wouldn’t be a little proud now? 🙂 A lot of the credit has to go to my friend Frank who shared with me this really amazing WebPageTest resource. OK so they gave me the grade and that makes me sound biased right? Well at first I got straight Fs from them. … Read more
I’ve had a problem in the past where I would get error messages from wordpress when attempting to install plugins because it did not have the file system permissions it needed. I ended up setting the wp-content directory access to 777 temporarily and then reverting to 755 when done (allow read/execute only). There should be … Read more
I’ve noticed a problem in the way I manage my media library – if I don’t go out of my way to compress images to a reasonable quality level for speedy delivery, nothing in the path of execution does it for me and the images download slowly because they’re too big. I could use photoshop … Read more
A recent power outage that lasted for hours reminded me of how vulnerable I’ve been. I’ve had a UPS but if the power stays out and the battery dies oh well… I fixed that adding a APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 S. To sense the power I ran the included USB to the back of my … Read more
I installed the WP Mail SMTP plugin and got my API key setup. Then it worked on the first try. First I got email at my primary account but then also sent one to a gmail account I have on the side. Congrats, test email was sent successfully! Thank you for trying out WP Mail … Read more
I’m going to see if I can edit this post and put a map in it.
I setup the WP RSS Aggregator plugin and can show feeds of interest here like that. But I want to go further there and create ONE feed that aggregates ALL topics of interest while ALSO filtering the content to less than every item in the feed. The WP aggregator will do that but only for … Read more
Playing with the WP RSS Aggregator plugin I may have added my first RSS feed. Trying this shortcode to display slashdot news…. [wp-rss-aggregator feeds=”slashdot”]
After a rough start this server finally has a public static IP with registered security certificates etc. What a learning process! I’m glad it finally works and I can do something besides wish I could get technical assistance from AT&T. To their credit their stuff usually works good but in this case I needed technical … Read more