Tag: WordPress
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Thank you!
Thinking aloud reaches a half million views
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Congrats: your browser supports TLS 1.2 and strong ciphers
Why bother with old and deprecated TLS protocols?
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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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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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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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How to get SSL working in WordPress
If you, like me, trust no one on the Internet; if you know Internet and security are two words that never really go together; if you really understand the cesspool of danger that the Internet is, you would never fill in a web form that doesn’t use SSL. Having just completed the new Zixi website,…
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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…
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Still recovering from Drupal: one year later
It’s time to build and write another website — something I do about once a year, it seems. After my last (self-inflicted) debacle with Drupal (here and here), there was no question that I’d use WordPress for the new website I am developing for Zixi. And when I decided today to write (yet another) love…