Every so often I try to bin WordPress, and move away from it. I have most recently tried to use DokuWiki to try and get away from WordPress, this can still be seen on labbook.skippy.org.uk, where the some of my notes are now going to live. Things I don’t like […]
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A quick change of themes, I was getting less and less happy with bhost, that is not to say its a bad theme, just I wasn’t happy with how it looked, I am now using baskerville. One of the things this new theme allowed me to do was stop using […]
TL;DR – It doesn’t work yet 🙁 I am trying to move my mcgaw.eu to my new server, however, I have been adding things after the local part deliminated with a +, for a while now, while this works out the box with symbiosis, it doesn’t seem to work with Sentora […]
Silly PHP upload limits One of the things that I find really unhelpful is that PHP by default has a silly small upload limit, normally I get around this on a per site basis by editing .htaccess with the following, However I can add some stuff to the end of […]
Following on from Setting up Sentora and setting up HTTPS on domains, it is now time to do something about the encryption of emails between clients and the server (I have written about end to end encryption on macs before). I hate playing about Postfix and Dovecot, Paul commented on Twitter that he had managed […]
In my last post about encryption, I managed to set up SSL using Let’s Encrypt on the control panel subdomain. Now while I have talked about this twice before, here and here, and converting WordPress to SSL. This is a new easy solution, that is far far less hacky!!!! (not […]
If you have ever had to set up, manage, migrate or otherwise look after more than about three WordPress installs you will know it gets more than a little bit dull to look after them manually. Thank you to the people behind wp-cli, as it makes life so so much […]
Following on from Part 1, we now have three of the Norse Goddesses up and running (If you hadn’t guessed what my naming convention is by now…) The site we are going to use for this bit of the up and running is a small site that has a fair […]
For the last long while my personal blog, Professional Site, and Tas’ site have all been run on Vor, a Machine running Zpanel CP. With Zpanel being superseded by Sentora, its time to upgrade vor, and move some things around. I plan on moving This site, the others mentioned above, […]
On the server is a site that wants to be both SSL and non SSL, this is not something that is natavily supported by Sentora/ZPanel, so what we did in SSL on Zpanel / Sentora will not work here (sad face) EXPLICITLY DON’T do that! if you have done it […]
Running a hosting business, I frequently chat with folks making the decision on where to host their sites. Other times, people are evaluating existing services and expenditures, wanting to make sure they are getting the best value for their hosting investment. This makes good sense. But almost without fail, people […]
I have now got HTTPS set up on //skippy.org.uk from a server point of view (following these instructions). I now need to tell Word Press that from now on its to play nice. Settings > General Add an S to the HTTP:// and off we go. One of the things […]
With the passing of ZPanel into the dark, and hopefuly being reborn as Sentora, one of the things that would be a nice to have built in to Sentora would be support for letsencrypt.org: Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority: It’s free, automated, and open. Arriving Summer 2015 but […]
What is Photon? this is a question I asked myself when I went looking for the name of the Jetpack app that does Image CDN (Content Delivery Network). Photon according to the WordPress.com documentation: Photon is an image acceleration and modification service for Jetpack-connected WordPress sites. Converted images are cached […]
A while ago I wrote about some offline WordPress editors, recently I managed to get my hands on a copy of Blogo (available via the App Store). My Previouse nice to have list was: Presented the WYSIWYG more like that in the edit screen for posts (the images and captions being sorted […]
For a while I have been looking after, and running other websites, these three make for new additions to my portfolio: Biscuit – for girls who like girls and boys FreedomNews – The new news site for Freedom Press FreedomPress – An online store front for the Freedom Book Shop […]
Most of the sites I work on are biased on the open source project WordPress, examples include Biscuit Mag, Freedom Press, Freedom News, and My Professional site; some sites like Just Vigilantes, and Does UKIP Hate You? are not. One of the nice things about self hosted wordpress is the backend […]
I have been mistaken for Go Skippy Car insurance quite offten! even though my blog has attracted other peoples negative reviews of Go Skippy Car Insurance, (I have not won any Positive or good reviews of Go Skippy). So to try and limit the number of people who got confused […]
If you have looked at my contact page recently (or at all) you will see that there is both a form, and an email address ([email protected]//skippy.org.uk). This was put there because I hate it when other websites force you to use a form to “email” the person you want to […]
A while ago I was asked by the wonderful Lottie if I would work with her on a project. Biscuit is that project. What is Biscuit? Biscuit is a brand new online magazine for the growing demographic of women who identify as bisexual. While gay and lesbian resources have abounded […]
For those of you who get confused, and think I am Go Skippy Car (and or) Van Insurance, I am not, I am not eCar Car insurance either… From: heselden <[email protected]> Subject: postal address Message Body: could you please supply me with your postal address as I have got to send to […]
Over at Just Vigilantes we have been working on a new project, soyouwannabuyaboat.com, The main domain name is kind of Maffi’s fault, and subsequently was bought for this project back when I was first looking for a boat, however it got put on the back burner. Narrowboat Sale was bought […]
It’s common for me to advise my clients, mostly small businesses, non-profits and independent professionals on all phases of setting up their websites. Sometimes they listen to my advice. But not always. The best suggestion I give out routinely is, ironically, the most ignored by my clients. When I started […]
The ACC (Association of Continuous Cruisers) website is up and live. Have a look and give us your feed back. Email Tas [email protected]associationofcontinuouscruisers.org.uk .
Just Vigilantes use the ZPanel Control Panel, ZPanel is a system that helps in the day to day tasks involved in administration of a typical website on the internet. Its goal is to simplify running web and email hosting across multiple, separate domains, along with all their associated services. Specifically, […]
I have been thinking about moving Skippy.org.uk and my 365 away from WordPress, as WordPress is a bit overpowered for myself as a lone user, and causes my server to run hard when hit with a lot of users. I am poking my 365 at the moment with a view to making […]
Skippy.org.uk is quite an old blog, and while my 365 Blog is not as old; one of the things that is getting old is TrackBack Spam, Both Blogs are hosted on the same WordPress MultiUser / WordPress Networks install at JustVigilantes.co.uk. WordPress makes it easy to turn off TrackBacks on […]
After my Previous post about Artesteer 4 for mac, there has been two sets of movement, that of the people on the support forum, and the glacial lack of movement of the Official Artisteer team. Artisteer are still listing as Mac Version 4 as in active development: Do you offer […]
A fair while ago I picked up Artisteer for Mac, it looked like a useful tool: Artisteer is the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes. Design awesome blogs and cool web templates in minutes Export to Blogger, Joomla, […]
I read blogs, and news sites, either on my Mac, or my iPhone; but on both of these devices I use an RSS reader (linked to my Google Reader account), on my Mac I using Reeder and here (this post is being written on my iPhone) on my iPhone also […]