When Technologies Collide, part 2
Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.
Category: Web Development Technologies
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc.
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc Are Not Equal Even within a specific category, such as a shopping cart, there are things a particular web technology does, and there are things it doesn’t do. Another way to say it would be that there is the way that particular technology does things, …
Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes
Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes Do you know how many themes are installed on your WordPress site? This is not a trivial question. I have seen at least one site that was hacked through an insecure theme. The owner of the site had taken a WordPress class and learned …
When your Theme Doesn’t Do the Obvious
When your Theme Doesn’t Do the Obvious Very few of my WordPress clients have true blogs. But, when they do, the communication needs for the home page are pretty specific … show viewers the excerpts from as many recent posts as makes a reasonably long web page. But, …
WordPress Framework Themes: The Hidden Gotcha!
WordPress Framework Themes: The Hidden Gotcha! A normal part of a WordPress project is to have the website owner choose their basic site structure by choosing a theme from WordPress.org. There are thousands of themes to choose from. The themes on WordPress.org are free, although many of them have a …
About Secure Certificates (SSL)
“They” say that you should have a secure certificate for your website, but what is a secure certificate?
Why Is Web Hosting Part of your WordPress Site?
Why Is Web Hosting Part of your WordPress Site? There are a whole set of website tasks and technologies that are not tied to your website technology specifically. But, your website technology cannot run without them. One of them is a web server, which is owned by a web hosting …
Comment Spam: When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site …
When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site … so can the bad guys! And, some of the bad guys will try to load your site with Comment Spam.
How Much Work Does It Take to Make It Easy for your Viewers?
How Much Work Does It Take to Make It Easy for your Viewers? Answer: A lot of work. Here is an example When I was first building this site, I threw up a Recent Posts widget in the right sidebar. It has bugged me ever since. As noted in the …
Reactive Programming Treats Variables Differently than Imperative Programming
REACTIVE PROGRAMMING TREATS VARIABLES DIFFERENTLY THAN IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING “… in an imperative programming setting, a := b + c would mean that a is being assigned the result of b + c in the instant the expression is evaluated, and later, the values of b and c can be changed …