Broken Links

As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.

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Search Engine Optimisation

I need to brush up on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation. Here are my notes and links. NB this is not yet state of the art and will currently save you about 5 minutes …

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Simple clean wordpress themes

For various reasons I had a look at alternative themes. I am currently using one called minnow, or on this wiki which I believe is no longer supported. In particular I find it frustrating that the social media menu does not display the platform icons, except for twitter. Otherwise I find it quite cool. I…

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WordPress, IONOS & file descriptors

I am having a problem with my web hosting solution. The CMS is wordpress; I installed W3 Total Cache which is too hungry for file descriptors given my disk space is subject to a quota. How can I solve this? If I can. Here some notes and links, …

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A test for logo showcase

I need to make a test for my logo showcase plugin, this has now been fixed with new additional CSS although the pictures need to be centre aligned.

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Towards a new theme

I can’t make the Nulis theme work with modals and there’s been a problem with CSS for a while; I am planning to switch my theme again. I have collected  whole bunch, and have short-listed  I like Cronus, which is a derivative of Tempo. Nulis and Cronus seem to have been abandoned.  Here are my…

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Merch

I was asked by my sister for advice on building a web e-commerce solution which set me thinking about if I could sell some “merch”. Here are my notes. …

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This site, moving home

I have finally moved this wordpress wiki into the davelevy.info domain from its historic site at wiki.davelevy.info; it’s now at ./wiki to be precise. Here’s how I did it. …

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