WordPress

It’s been almost exactly one year since Automatic released Gutenberg – the new text editor on WordPress, and I’ve been using it almost continuously since then. When it first came out, I found it lacking in many respects and wrote a blog post on how annoyed I was. Since then however, a lot of things […]

A little over a month ago on the 31st of October, Google released “Site Kit” for WordPress. It blends together all of Google’s tools like Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed insights, and presents their results together in the WordPress report screen. It’s a neat idea, and I can see where they’re going with it. WordPress […]

A few days back, we got the new version of WordPress – 5.3. My hosting settings are configured to automatically update WordPress to all the latest versions, so when I logged into my admin screen a few days later, it was already up to date. As I was composing a new post in my MS […]

Yesterday on the 12th of November 2019, Automattic released the latest version of WordPress – v5.3. It’s the last major release for this year and brings a bunch of improvements to the Gutenberg editor, behind the scenes features for developers, and readies WordPress for the upcoming release of PHP 7.4. Here’s the full list of […]

I have a whole bunch of browsers on my laptop. Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Edge, Edge Insider, Brave, etc. What’s weird is that except for two of these (and soon just one), they’re all based on the Chromium project. The exceptions are Firefox, and Edge (soon to be retired in favor of Edge Insider). “Google Chrome” […]

We spend so much time on NameHero giving advice on which code to add to WordPress. It occurs to me that we haven’t given an explanation so far, about the most common mechanism in WordPress for modifications – actions and filters. So this is a quick introduction to them, why they’re useful, and two examples […]

If you’re thinking of starting a website, and have done a bit of research, two names quickly come to the fore – Joomla! and WordPress. They’re both CMSs (Content Management Systems), free and open source, and are available on all web hosting platforms. If your host is using cPanel, the in-built plugin Softalicious will already […]

A few months ago, I was auditing my site and jettisoning some of the additional code and scripts that were loading, slowing things down, and causing conflicts. One of these was a little external Javascript file that was parsing some of my links and adding target=”_blank” to them, to make the links open in a […]

When you’ve had a website for long enough, you start to get all kinds of weird requests for non-existent URLs. Sometimes, you might be forced to unpublish a post for one reason or another, and you need to do something with the incoming traffic. God forbid, if you need to change a post’s or a […]