Disabling Featured Image on Posts with Elementor
I recently had the chore of converting an existing web site built with a ten year-old theme and page builder to something more modern. I chose the Astra theme and Elementor page builder, both “Pro” versions. Manual migration wasn’t as tough as I thought it would be because the site was mostly blog articles written…
Watch Your Logs! Stop the Bad Guys.
If you’re running a WordPress site with the Apache web server and haven’t looked at your server logs, it’s time you did. Unless you’ve installed some fairly heavyweight server and network protections you’re probably going to see that a lot of the traffic to your web site are hackers looking for vulnerabilities they can exploit. …
So maybe I’m pretty good with WordPress after all
I began my techie life as an 8088/86 assembly language programmer, a skill that’s all but disappeared with today’s incredibly faster processors and terabytes of addressable memory. From there I went to Forth and C. Then perl, PHP and SQL. I worked with Drupal for a few years, mostly doing module development. The one platform…
How NOT to provide tech support (you listening, Ubiquiti?)
I won’t get into the details of installing the Ubiquiti access point hardware. There are plenty of videos and how-tos on the web for that. Instead, this article is about the troubles I had installing this hardware. I finally got it working, no thanks to Ubiquiti’s crack tech support channel. My Unifi purchases: Security Gateway…
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Bye, Drupal
For many years, since version 4, I was an evangelist for the Drupal content management system. I built a lot of PHP modules for it and considered myself fairly expert with it. One Drupal site I built ran 90% on a custom module I’d built called FeedBuddy. It was an RSS aggregator of third party…
Slow downloads for Apple App Store updates? Try this.
I discovered a nifty trick for those excruciatingly slow Apple Update downloads. My friend left his broken 2008 Mac Pro with me last week. It turned out that he just neglected to plug in the display power supply. The computer has been down for a year(!) because of that. Since the machine hadn’t run since…