The admin dashboard widgets in WordPress are handy and informational, but sometimes you don’t need or want them on a particular deployment. WordPress allows you to hide them by clicking the Screen Options button at the top right and deselecting the ones you don’t need. This is nice and easy, but it only hides them. … Continue reading
Sometimes it’s nice to display a PDF embedded on a page without forcing the visitor to download it. Using the Google Docs PDF viewer, we can easily do that with a shortcode and this snippet of code. To display the PDF, insert the shortcode in your page or post using the following syntax: If you … Continue reading
On many systems using the default WordPress configuration, emails originating from a WordPress site will likely have some undesirable traits. These are: From: WordPress wordpress@domain.com Return-Path: apache@mail.domain.com It’s likely you’ve seen this before. It’s pretty much the default. The problem is, it’s useless most of the time. Let’s fix that. Change the values in the … Continue reading
“As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a … Continue reading
Have you noticed the ads in newspapers, magazines, on television and even on actual product packaging, where instead of companies listing their own web site, they say “Find us on Facebook”? It’s almost universal at this point, it seems. There’s a trend in marketing that puts all the Internet marketing eggs into the Facebook basket, … Continue reading
Back many years ago, when granny was young and grass was green, I used to blog quite frequently. This was before it was even called blogging. I was a young buck and had a different set of interests than I do today. A lot of the stuff I wrote wasn’t very thoughtful or useful to … Continue reading
I only see light and contrast this great when all I have is the phone camera.