Category: WordPress
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Thank you!
Thinking aloud reaches a half million views
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Thinking about using WordPress? Self-host.
The best hosting for WordPress is…your own cloud server.
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Saturday night’s all right for encrypting
With apologies to Elton John
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A love affair that just gets better and better: WordPress 4.2
Source: WordPress › WordPress 4.2 “Powell” On the off chance that you don’t know how much I am smitten by WordPress, this short ode to WordPress 4.2 should do it. Conversely, you all know by now how much I abhor Drupal. So, recruiters, stop sending me Drupal contracts, OK? Just because my blog comes up when you…
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yobyot.com gets SPDY
Did you know that there’s a huge change happening in the way browsers communicate with web servers? And that change is gonna make the web go faster than ever? Google is behind this sea-change, which they originally called SPDY (pronounced “speedy”). Well, now SPDY is about to become the new HTTP/2 standard. By the end of the…
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Dumb and dumber Alex
Over the Xmas-New Year’s holiday, I decided to move this blog from GoDaddy (feh!) to an Azure virtual machine. There were two reasons. First, I wanted to compare AWS to Azure (Azure is classic MSFT — they are far behind. But they have enough money to catch up and a long history of doing so and then…
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What I did on a rainy Fourth of July
It’s the Fourth of July — and it’s raining like hell. That’s the bad news from an early season Hurricane Aurthur (see the nearby NOAA radar image for an idea of what it’s been like today). The good news? I don’t have to grill until tomorrow, which is forecast to be glorious. So, what’s a…
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How to display PDFs in any WordPress post or page and on any browser or device
I’ve been using WordPress a long time. This blog alone dates back to 2006. And in all that time, I’ve always been frustrated with the WordPress handles PDFs. Until now. PDFs (and other graphics formats) really add to the content of your blog. In my work life, they are one of the main formats we…
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The faster we go, the rounder we get
Yup, the title of this post is from the from the Grateful Dead’s 1968 album Anthem of the Sun. While I am no deadhead, I bought the album as a kid and thought, “Hey, these guys are trippy.” And that’s an apt description of my new WordPress theme, called “Spun” and developed by Caroline Themes.…
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How to use WordPress to develop a successful B2B website
The new zixi.com is just about a month old. And I couldn’t be happier with the results. Traffic is way up; average on-site times are increasing and Google seems to really like the site’s content, boding well for future traffic increases. My love affair with WordPress is well known (see related posts at the bottom of…
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Decisions…decisions or another in a continuing series of Drupal-basing posts
You know that area at the bottom of your LinkedIn profile where you get to claim that you know something about something? I don’t spend a lot of time on LinkedIn but I noticed that I claim to know Drupal, hours after launching the new www.zixi.com, a website I did in WordPress. I not only survived…