Easy throwaway email addresses
Easily create unique email addresses to give to companies, so you can tell who leaked your address to spammers and shut them down.
How-to
Where are you using this plugin?
How to tell where a plugin is used so you know whether you can deactivate it.
Making Contact Form 7 more usable
If you use Contact Form 7, there’s a thing you might do to avoid user misunderstandings from the default form behavior.
Controlling how links to your pages appear elsewhere
Before you post, use these settings to control you search engines and social media describe your webpage.
iThemes Security incompatibility with Matomo
How to resolve 403 Forbidden error or 403 Not Allowed error when using Matomo on a WordPress site that also has the iThemese Security plugin.
Plugin review: WP Rollback
If a plugin update causes a problem, how do you find out which plugin and how do you rewind to a previous version?
Using Buffalo LinkStation or TeraStation NAS as a music source for Sonos
Untypically, this post isn’t about WordPress, but it’s a technical topic I couldn’t find answers to online, so I hope others with the same problem… Read More »Using Buffalo LinkStation or TeraStation NAS as a music source for Sonos
Plugin review: CC Child Pages
I often want a page containing an automatically generated grid of subsidiary pages, without having to work hard to make it happen.
Speed up your website with WebP
Make your images load faster using WebP format on your WordPress website. If images are faster, the page is faster. And a faster site gives… Read More »Speed up your website with WebP
Reusable Blocks and Patterns
Two of the features that make the WordPress block editor a thing of niceness. They save time and prevent inconsistent formatting in the content of your pages and posts. But how and where are they best used?
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Sifting Through a Ton of Spam Comments
If you’ve installed a spam control plugin such as Antispam Bee, you shouldn’t be getting a lot of new spam comments on your posts. But what about the thousands of comments you received before activating spam blocking? Some tiny fraction of them may be legit comments from actual people, that you’d like to keep.
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For authors who have their own websites, this is a way to leverage the site to engage readers, to encourage additional sales and reviews. When… Read More »Post-Read Pages
How to make non-skeevy QR codes
Recent statistics show that use of QR codes — those dotty squares that point your smartphone to a web page — are on the rise.… Read More »How to make non-skeevy QR codes
How to Migrate a WordPress Website
You’re switching website hosting to a different provider (here are my recommended providers). You want minimum downtime, and to avoid breaking anything you might not… Read More »How to Migrate a WordPress Website
E-book download garbage screen
This is about an occasional problem I’ve seen with e-book downloads. When you click the download link (as opposed to using the context menu to explicitly save the file), it opens in the browser, but the contents are garbage characters.
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Using the Accordion Control
The Accordion control lets you create “click to expand” outline entries. I share the custom CSS I came up with to make this control more… Read More »Using the Accordion Control
How to Manage Your Passwords
For your security, it’s best to use a different password on every account. But keeping track of them all is a pain.
Graphene Theme How-to Compendium
I make a fair bit of use of the Graphene theme, which has two features I frequently want: a non-scrolling menu and sidebar widget areas.… Read More »Graphene Theme How-to Compendium
Make menu items into buttons
Highlight selected menu items in your WordPress site by changing them into buttons.
SVG File in a Web Page
The problem with raster graphics (such as your typical JPG, GIF, or PNG file) is that they don’t scale up very well. They get fuzzy… Read More »SVG File in a Web Page
Thoughts on Featured Images in WordPress
Where should themes display featured images, how can you gain some control over that, and how does that tie in to what images show up… Read More »Thoughts on Featured Images in WordPress
Remove your mailing address from MailChimp newsletters
Bottom line: you can’t; use mailerlite instead. By law, a company sending email for you has to know your mailing address. The law doesn’t require… Read More »Remove your mailing address from MailChimp newsletters
Hide the author name on pages and posts
If all the content on your website has a single author, it may be superfluous to display author name on every post, especially if your… Read More »Hide the author name on pages and posts
Responsive Widgets to Top in Graphene Theme
Graphene is one of my favorite themes — I’ve used it on several websites. It has a nice look out of the box, a reasonable… Read More »Responsive Widgets to Top in Graphene Theme
Configure MailChimp to email blog updates
This article assumes you already have a MailChimp account and a subscriber list there (even if there is nobody in it yet). I’ll show how… Read More »Configure MailChimp to email blog updates
Contact form that goes to different recipients based on selection
If you’re not the only person involved, in managing your web presence, you might want to have email from your contact form go to different… Read More »Contact form that goes to different recipients based on selection
How to remove the credit line from a theme
Most themes have a bit of text and a link at the bottom to the maker of the theme. Especially for their free versions, there… Read More »How to remove the credit line from a theme
Adding Subscribe link after Sassy Social Share follow icons
The plugin Sassy Social Share, which I recommend for share buttons, includes the ability to add a widget with “social links” to the organization’s social… Read More »Adding Subscribe link after Sassy Social Share follow icons