I have some notes on the wordpress schema; I am trying to tidy up my tag list on my blog, there’s a shed load of tags which only have one entry in the database, there are some spelling mistakes and some inconsistency in the use of spaces and plurals. But I might leave those with…
Read moreMinnow theme for WordPress
One of my favourite WordPress themes is the ultra clean minnow theme, it has not been updated for a while but its wordpress codex page is here, and I have made a copy of my theme directory. To see a thumbnail, see below/overleaf …
Read moreEmail Verify
Another GDPR requirement is that when signing up for something, the publisher needs to verify that the email given is genuine and belongs to the user. WordPress offers several plugins; there are other ways, here are my notes …
Read moreMoving this wordpress url and domain
I am looking to move this wiki to a location within davelevy.info. Here are my notes…
Read moreDonating with Gocardless
A British payment processor for managing direct debits accessible it seems to charities and maybe political parties. Here are my notes …
Read morePHP, 1and1 and (most) of my webspace
I had to upgrade the PHP versions on my 1and1 domain systems. I am now on 7.2. I used the 1and1 control panel. Here are my other notes including the fact that I have replaced the A-Z index plugin. This was written in 2019. …
Read moreUmbraco CMS
I need to help appraise an Umbraco project. Here are some links I find useful.
Read moreA carousel slider
I installed wp logo showcase plugin on another blog and need to uninstall it, so I have copied it across to here. Below/Overleaf there is a slide show.
Read moreRed or Blue
A poll, using YOP Poll between Red & Blue [yop_poll id=1]
Read moreEasy Index
While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…
Read morePolling in WordPress
I checked out YOP Poll this evening; a wordpress polling plugin. Here are my notes.
Read moreFlickr Slide Shows
This page documents my use of widgets, HTML and plugins to display flickr slide shows on my blogs. As at August 2021, I am using wordpress plugins see below/overleaf or on the blog wordpress now support flickr URLs with a native embed. I just have to paste the URL. Here are my notes, developed over…
Read moreWordPress in the Cloud
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.
Read moreYANF web calendar
I came across https://tockify.com, it seems to be a calendar implemented as Software-as-service and access via http. It could be useful for wordpress (or other CMS) sites where plugins are unavailable but html is.
Read moreWordPress 301 Redirects
I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …
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