Well, here it is. My first official newsletter. Writing it up presented the question of “FFS, how should I title this?!”, but I ended up going for the name of the newsletter, the week and the year. Ambitious, I know, but that’s how I roll. Anyway, here we go. WordPress News 🗞 Seventeen and a… Continue reading »
Hello, long time no speak!
Hi there! Yeah, well, long time no speak from my end 😬 😅. If you’re receiving this email you have at some point in your life subscribed to one of my newsletters. And, let’s get this out of the way right away, you may no longer wish to be so. And that’s okay, so feel… Continue reading »
Goodbye Sharon
A week ago I wrote this: Goodbye Sharon. You were the best Mom this exchange student could wish for. I am devastated to learn of your sudden passing, and I will miss you dearly. You see, a little over 30 years ago I was an exchange student in the United States. My exchange family were… Continue reading »
Assume your audience is international – not American
I see this all the time. Newsletters dropping in my inbox referencing something super specific to the United States. Like Thanksgiving, for instance. And it excludes those that don’t subscribe to your point of view. If you don’t know where the person is from, assume they are international. Don’t go for that default (American) approach… Continue reading »
Stop Chrome from hiding full URL
Chrome 86 adds yet another obfuscation. Slugs are no longer visible and only visible upon hover. Chrome has been trying for ages now to hide the full URL in its address bar – Ominbox in Chrome’s own terminology – and I find it annoying as hell. There are so many reasons for me to always… Continue reading »
How To: Restart Your Camera in Mac OS X
Working from home, for most, includes a fair amount of video conferencing. But, what if the camera on your Mac produces No Connected Camera errors and effectively won’t work or has suddenly stopped working with apps like Facetime, Skype, Zoom or Google Meet? Well, you can either go for a full reboot of your computer,… Continue reading »
Koko Analytics for simple Stats
Years ago, when you needed a simple way of displaying stats in your WordPress Dashboard, the only set and forget option was WordPress Stats which later got incorporated into Jetpack. And for years, that’s exactly what I installed in WordPress sites. But besides the fact of Jetpack slowing your site down, its Stats module is… Continue reading »
Force re-downloading plugins and themes with WP-CLI
Recently I found myself needing to force download all plugins and themes in a WordPress installation. Now, the old way would be to download them, upload them via SFTP. Very laborious, no fun. Enter the fun way: WP-CLI. If you’re unfamiliar with WP-CLI, it’s the command line tool for WordPress. And as all sites on… Continue reading »