Easy Way to Stop Those Varmints from Stealing Your Images n Stuff
If you don’t lock down your directories, people can come along and poke through them and take your images and sometimes even pirate a copy of your theme. (though I […]
Easy Way to Link to a Specific Spot on Someone’s Site
Probably everyone else remembers how to do this, but I didn’t, and if it helps even one person I’ll be glad. Suppose you’re writing a blog post, and suppose you […]
PHP – More Stuff to Think About
So I just had another client’s site have a problem, most likely from incompatibility between a plugin they needed and the version of PHP running in their hosting plan. Specifically, […]
Upgrading Your Version of PHP for Fun and Profit
What does it mean to upgrade your version of PHP? (start using a newer, better version of PHP to run your site) Why should you do it? (your site will […]
Good Habit – Keep Your Hosting and Domain and Backups Separate
You know how the royal family has to travel separately, in order to mitigate risk to the line of succession? Of course you do, it was the entire plot of […]
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, A Featured Image Needs to Be the Right Size
So we all know that a lot of communication is visual (and thanks to Dr. Merhabian, we know it’s 93% visual) so it makes sense that the photos on your […]
Tinkering Under the Hood – Increase PHP Memory Limit
So you might notice some apps or scripts are executing slowly, and if you have the time and inclination (and access to your cpanel via your host), you might want […]
Back That Thing Up!
I made a fun video with my friend Lydia at Expresso Designs today about backing up your site and safely updating, and I realized I was overdue for a website backup […]
Adding Your Logo to the Login Screen
I thought it would be a fun thing to see a photo of my kids every time I signed into the back end of my site. And, of course, you […]