Add Faveicons to your WordPress site
I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole. I previously had not bothered to create faveicons for my WordPress Sites. I was doing some work with the Redirection plugin and saw a lot of 404 entries for apple-touch faveicons. As I dove in I realized I should add them.
Continue readingBuffer for Social Media postings
I looked at the various alternatives for Social Media Management for WordPress sites. The WordPress plugins were either overly difficult to configure or expensive. Buffer offers a reasonably priced alternative to manage social media posting.
Continue readingLogitech K480 Bluetooth Keyboard
The K480 easily connects to Android, Windows, Chrome, IOS and MacOS machines to allow efficient typing on your phone or tablet.
Continue readingCreate a channel on your YouTube account
The process to create a new channel on your YouTube account can be a little tricky. Here is step by step process for adding a channel.
Continue readingYour toilet and faucets could be spying on you.
Sept 2019 – Pretty soon you won’t even be able to trust your toaster. Voice activated toilets and faucets could be used to spy on your conversations and water usage.
Continue readingInPixio Photo Eraser
InPixio Photo Eraser solved a common problem for me. I have a couple of location blogs. I often need to take photos where unwanted people or objects are in the photos (Like my inlaws.. ooops, just kidding). I was editing unwanted objects out with GIMP (An open source Photoshop work alike). I saw some ads for the InPixio product and decided to give it a shot. It turned out to be a great investment.
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WordPress Categories and Tags missing in Gutenberg
Missing WordPress Categories and Tags Solution – Sept 2019 – I noticed that when editing posts on my sites that the categories and tags controls were missing. The problem was a conflict with the Autoptimize plugin. The resolution was fairly simple and involved only a slight performance hit.
Continue readingHow to block WordPress Comment Spam
I needed to find block WordPress Comment Spam. I have a couple of WordPress starter sites on a shared host and was getting hit with comment spam from a particular IP range. A quick solution was to block the IP range using cPanel.
Continue readingI’m going to retire my Dlink Cameras due to a security risk
Unfortunately I will have to retire my Dlink cameras due to a security risk. In order to access my dLink cameras, I need to significantly lower the security settings on my Chrome browser
Continue readingResolving an Autoptimize / Sassy Social Share conflict in WordPress.
While trying to optimize the CSS of a WordPress site using the Autoptimize plugin, it created extraneous bullets. The solution was simple.
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