Resolving 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.
Continue readingUsing Google Lighthouse / PageSpeed Insights to benchmark your sites.
Find and remove duplicate files
Over the years I had accumulated numerous duplicate photos. I found an open source solution that worked well.
Continue readingWordPress crash after updating BackupWordPress to v 3.9 – June 10 2019
I was doing some plugin updates on my sites. When I updated a site to version 3.9 of BackupWordPress. The site crashed with an HTTP 500 error.
Continue readingWordPress 5.2 update hangs on ‘Unpacking the update . . .’
When updating a site, you may run into a situation where WordPress 5.2 update hangs on ‘Unpacking the update.
Continue readingUse the Bundle Outdated command to keep your Rails applications secure
Using outdated gems introduces vulnerabilities to your Rails Applications. There is an easy way to find outdated gems.
Continue readingCopy and paste with Putty running on an Ubuntu VM
THIS was driving me batty. I have Putty running on Ubuntu which runs on an Oracle Virtualbox on a Win 10 machine. I was trying to copy and paste and getting nowhere. The solution turned out to be pretty simple
Continue readingAn easy way to determine which version of Linux you are running.
Determining the exact version of Linux you are running is fairly simple.
Continue readingGoodbye Google Plus
The folks at Google have pulled the plug on Google Plus.
Continue readingUsing Cloudflare with Westhost WordPress sites
Using the Free version of Cloudflare provided by my hosting company (Westhost) dramatically improved the speed and reliability of the WordPress sites on my shared hosting plan.
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