bikegremlin
bikegremlin
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Was anyone hurt? Yes, I see they said "Everyone is safe," but that's not the same.
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If memory serves me, there was a fire on a building close-by. They talked about adding (or already having added) some external fire-protection plates to prevent such incidents from putting them in danger. Can't find the article neither. :(
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I highly value different opinions and ideas - especially when they come from experienced experts. So not disagreeing here, just... expanding? :) Correct me where I'm wrong: I suppose that website setup and maintenance is done by someone reasonably competent. People adding new content could (should?) be given limited access…
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@TigersWay & @mikho TL/DR: WordPress and Cloudflare have their downsides, but I still think they are "the least bad choice" with all the pros and cons considered. Long-winded drivel: I'm a kind of pers robot that usually sees the worst aspects of every solution (along with the good sides). As in: prepare for the worst,…
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Sounds quite ambitious - planning for the future. I like it. :) While I support the idea of configuring everything so that Cloudflare can be ditched if needed, I see no point in dismissing it right now, for the sake of dismissing it. If you need any help with WordPress - let me know. P.S. Thinking out loud (not that I'm…
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Still not certain on the correct proportion (and design - colours etc). Considering small article cover images, as well as YouTube video covers - especially when viewed on mobile phones. Seriously considering making the logo take almost a 1/3 of the photo for those (all those images below are gruesome, but considering just…
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Thanks for the feedback. :) What about the "logo" ("watermark")? Does it look OK? Like: a good idea to mark cover images with such a logo?
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Did a minor home-page re-design. I think that now it's a little more informative, and a little less ugly. :) Nothing smart - just bragging. :) https://bike.bikegremlin.com/ A question, for those who aren't completely visual design-blind like I am: :) I want to make a sort of a "standard (water) mark" for all the article…
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They could do the reverse thing: * Make a website on the example.com, with a one-click Softaculous install. * Set the website to "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" in Settings -> Reading * Make just one home page saying "under construction." * Create a subdomain in cPanel. * Create a staging copy of the…
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Softaculous can do that. Most providers offer it. You can set the website to not be indexed, on a qwpvisjfosfd.example.com subdomain. Then use Softaculous to one-click clone it to www.example.com. Finally, choose the Softaculous option to make the staging copy become the main site.
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Is there a (simple?) way to have comments pages show only comments (perhaps with a link to the original article), without showing the full article on top, for every comment page? Pages like this one. I'd like to not have the entire article shown above. Perhaps only a snippet, with a link to the full article. The comments…
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For the back-end: press F12 - then go to the Network tab. It will show page load times (total, and for each element). For the front-end: my website speed testing method(s). I suppose others will have even better ideas, but that's what I came up with, using the free tools that are idiot-friendly.
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Well, this is similar - only with the letters sorted alphabetically - as they should be! :)
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Had to Google that. No, I don't think so. Just some mild CDO... :)
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My first info of Gatsby was after a WP developer who's knowledge and experience I value told me to check out the new cool thing. He really got into it - and helped organize a public workshop where an experienced Gatsby developer showed what it's all about. I came there prepared. And got into it some more afterwards. For me…
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In a workshop in my city, an experienced Gatsby developer had a problem while demonstrating live how things are done using Gatsby, with WordPress as a back-end content creation/management tool. On a basic "hello-world-like" example. Figured it out later, but couldn't get it all working properly during the presentation. It…
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I would add Publii. It creates static HTML websites, but enables relatively convenient content management (regarding it's being done for a static website). I've been using it for some "small stuff." It does a decent job in terms of code optimization: performance, mobile friendliness, and GASP!!! SEO. :) "The legend says:…
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Hail Mason! Get well soon Anthony.
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Security-wise, your passwords are saved on their server. And they promise it's all encrypted and they won't look into it (I have no reason to doubt them, but for the really security concerned people, I think that's a valid argument).
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KeePass Touch is free and works fine (on my phone at least).
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I use MEGA.nz and KeePass combo. Apart from one sync hiccup (not sure what exactly had caused it, but client re-install helped), it's been working fine for years - on both Linux, Windows and IOS stuff.
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You can use one account for all the computers, and another account for all the mobile phones? Of just switch to KeePass. :)
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Yes, DB "cleanup" is always a good idea. Litespeed does a decent job of that too. For more thorough "operations" - WP-DBManager has worked fine for me. What's the best way to prolong, or disable the auto-saves?
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Never got down to writing an article on that, but WP has its pros. The ease of content update and maintenances for one. I'm yet to find a non-database driven CMS that matches that. Also - I have a few sites with about 200 posts, and about 50 pages - working with no problems. No noticeable slow-downs in the front end, or…
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WP users use of the term "static" sounds a bit confusing at times. It used to mean: pre-made, not database driven content. There are WP plugins and other ways of making WP be basically used as a back-end for creating static web pages. Good caching plugins also aim to serve once created page, without re-creating them from…
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Not strictly WP related, but it is PHP - and didn't seem sensible starting a new thread. I put this PHP code in an index.php file on a shared hosting server: <?phpdate_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');**print `uptime`; **?>It sued to work fine for a while. Now, uptime is no longer…
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If Google Analytics is to be trusted, CF does help reduce avg. page load time (it also reduces the hosting server load to a degree). Some of my articles have 5 to 10 images (not a huge number, and the images aren't huge, but not just one or two). That's on top of using redis and LiteSpeed cache. CF, if configured…
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Yes - a very good point. For Cloudflare in particular: i've measured average page load times to drop, but the page load times for visitors located near the hosting server have slightly increased. Well, unless a website is configured to serve pages too from the CF cache - in that case it's faster from any location, since CF…
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Using a CDN for images makes the DB smaller? Not just the files (uploads) directory? 5 $ Cloudflare package lets you use their network of edge (CDN) servers for serving both all the images, and all the cached pages. Or you could use a free plugin to avoid paying the 5$ fee. Called: WP Cloudflare Super Page Cache Still, I…
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Long post. Probably pointless - but some info might be helpful, or interesting. :) Example 1 This one is served through CF - so practically all the pages are cached there. GTmetrix report, for noting any optimization errors (well, Images should be better optimized, but that's a long story): * Page 1 - GTmetrix report *…
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It's not that simple. :) And no - it doesn't generally (not in my opinion). In this particular case - LiteSpeed's storing of GA scripts locally seemed to have caused the problem. Had to disable that.
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Yes. Your suggestion got the solution. I was stuck.
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Will look into it. Suspecting LiteSpeed cache for now. Since a website not using LiteSpeed (plain HTML one) is looking normally. While it too is using the same Cloudflare configuration. Just dug this out. Still not sure if it makes sense, but will look into it. :) Edit: Seems to have fixed it - for now at least. Disabled…
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Hmmm. Strange. I just checked. Cleared cache, and all: <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-64 .... and so on Looks identical (apart from the exact tracking code number) to the non WP (plain HTML) website that works fine in Analytics. And - it shows visitors in "live traffic". That's how I…
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As for the GP: They used to sell for about 50$, with discount for renewal (ending up at 30$). I thought about it, and thought: "Oh, well - it's not too bad, if I ever need it, I'll pay." Never needed anything that couldn't be solved with just a little bit of custom code (so far at least). :) Now comes the tin-foil hat! :)…
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That annoying guy who just "steps" into the conversation: =) GeneratePress is like most other themes available on wp.org: You get the basic functionality for free, but you need to pay for having all the available options using just mouse-clicks. Fortunately, it is very well documented, support is really excellent, so you…