Blog-o-Goodness
I came across this clever thing for making a website seem faster to user. This is pretty clever since a lot of what makes a computer “seem” fast is the way it responds to the user moreso than how fast it is. I recall this was an early Apple Macintosh trick – make *something* happen … Read more
Below is the description for the plugin Manual Control for Jetpack. There is so much going on here that I’ve copied the text and taken a screenshot of the page. At some point the plugin will probably be completely removed. It is creepy how Jetpack does things like auto activating new modules whether you want … Read more
I want this “visibility” setting for my widgets on a new site that I’m working on: I know that *something* exists to do this, because I have it here on ericshefferman.com! I have the Widget Logic plugin but I’ve always disliked that it doesn’t have a logic/conditionals cheat sheet right in the plugin. And it … Read more
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While rooting through all my websites to bring them up to use SSLÂ (so they have that nice https:// and a lock that shows google likes them), I removed a bunch of old plugins and themes that haven’t been updated in years (internet decades).
This first image is a true gem – the “default” WordPress theme — that came complete on installation along with insisting that “admin” be the default user
And here’s another special one — to give the internet the look like it would have had when I was a kid:
One final note on the SSL conversion from http to https:
Google Search Console had some serious issues with the robots.txt file for this site that took me a while to resolve.
It kept giving cryptic error messages and suggesting I read a page that didn’t really explain anything.
The instructions I followed from wpbeginner.com suggested adding this new secure site to the google search console.
And there I was told that my site was not mobile-friendly!
So I took a look for myself using mobiletest.me and…