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
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, …
Read moreLabour & WordPress
The Labour Party are moving from the Nationbuilder web site to a customised wordpress environment. Here are my notes …
Read moreHUGO
Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. Here are my notes , I tried three times, the most recent attempt in Dec 2022. …
Read moreWordPress calendar plugin
I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a…
Read moreMigrating from Storify
Storify is going, how am i going to rescue this content. Target should be wordpress. This is going to be fun. Not! Here are my notes.
Read moreLightsail & WordPress
First I had to get permission, then it was easy. There is a wordpress canned service, and how to install, boot and retrieve the password is documented here. This article by Adrian Milne helped in doing the copy from source.
Read moreArchive Widget Plugin
I have just installed the “jQuery Archive List Widget”. This offers collapsable archive lists. It’s so easy. You configure it once installed by the widget management page. It’s now available on my home page’s 2nd page.
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