As you may have noticed, the images in my articles have, starting today, a shadow border. I wanted to add a nice looking border and shadow to my WordPress images without a plugin. Plugins have their own costs in terms of performance, so I did not want to add a plugin for this simplest function. … Read more WordPress: How to Add Border and Shadow to Images
If you have a website hosted on your Synology NAS that is built using WordPress, Joomla or a simple html page, you may be interested in the uptime of your website. There is a free online tool called UptimeRobot that checks if your website is still online every 5 minutes. If your site is offline, … Read more Synology: How to Monitor Website Uptime
Are you thinking about disabling comments on your WordPress blog? Reasons such as Cookies, Spam and EU GDPR often discourage administrators who then prefer to completely disable comments in WordPress. This WordPress blog has been working just fine without comments since the first day. My ideas are definitely not perfect, but at a certain point … Read more How to Disable Comments in WordPress
After WordPress 5.2 or the latest upgrade, most people are getting the following error message: “The site is experiencing technical difficulties.” In reality there can be two messages, depending on what we are viewing at that precise moment: the public site or the wp-admin link. The two new error messages are: The site is experiencing … Read more WordPress: The site is experiencing technical difficulties
I think AdBlock software is a bad thing. It’s making free, quality content disappear from the Internet. It’s working against small business owners and supporting big corporations. It’s turning people against each other and disseminating hatred. It’s making us insensitive to the struggles of others. It’s making us think it’s okay to be selfish and … Read more How to Block AdBlock on Your WordPress