I love Jetpack. It’s a plugin with a ton of functionality. Recently Automattic – the company behind Jetpack – has been improving its utility, allowing users to access features that previously required purchasing separate plans. Such as CDNs for WordPress related JS and CSS, and fast image hosting from EDGE servers across the globe. They […]
How To Display The “Last Modified” Date On Posts
Article freshness is an important aspect of maintaining a site. Too many of them focus on churning out new content, without a care for updating old posts and pages. Some content of course, is evergreen. “How to” articles are a great example. You’ll find a whole bunch of them here on the NameHero blog! But […]
3 Ways To Force Whitespace In The WordPress Editor
A few days ago, I had to solve a weird problem with formatting in WordPress. I use a table plugin that automatically expands the table columns to fit the widest content. However, I wasn’t happy with where it was breaking a sentence and wanted to increase the table column. So I decided to put some […]
Where To Put Custom CSS In WordPress Without A Plugin
The default way in WordPress to include custom CSS is to use the “Additional CSS” feature in the theme customizer under “Appearance” in the dashboard like this: While this is an easy and convenient way to insert additional CSS for your theme, it’s fatally flawed because the system uses a GET request for the CSS, […]
How To Remove The Image Border In WordPress Widgets
For one of the most popular web page building platforms in existence, WordPress can get pretty frustrating with basic stuff. I guess most of that is due to its organic growth from a blogging platform, to a full-fledged design tool. Sometimes we need to fix basic stuff that you’d imagine would be its bread and […]
How To Monitor Your Site For Downtime For Free
Last month something weird happened, and I started getting messages from my Google search console like this: Apparently, my sites were returning a “526” error – which indicates an invalid SSL certificate. Troubleshooting, it found out that it was caused by using wildcard Let’s Encrypt certificates while also using a Domain Name Server that was […]
Gutenberg Allows You To Replace Code Insertion Plugins
For a long time now, web pages have been more than just text on a screen. Even posts in WordPress which are ostensibly articles, are now a lot more than just the posts themselves. There are all kinds of hidden elements in pages that are not visible to the use. Schema markup, HTML tags, tracking […]
How To Add Custom Image Dimensions To WordPress Dropdowns
For some of us who write a lot on WordPress, a few extra seconds shaved off a routine task can be huge, especially when we have to repeat those things multiple times in a single post. For example, sizing images is a big one. Using Custom Image Dimensions in WordPress Every website’s layout is different, […]
How To Safely Disable XMLRPC In WordPress (While Keeping Jetpack)
One day I got a bunch of notifications from my WordPress security plugin that some IP addresses were blocked because of multiple incorrect login attempts. By itself, this is nothing to wonder at – after all, WordPress is the platform most targeted by hackers simply because it’s so popular. What was surprising, was that it […]
How To Allow SVG File Uploads In WordPress Media
There’s a lot of “wisdom” floating around on the Internet about what kind of image formats to use on your website. PNG or JPG? What size, and resolution? Which compression algorithm? Despite what a lot of articles tell you, there’s no one solution and you need to constantly test to separate myth from fact. Vector […]