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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
WWW is depreciated WWW stands for World Wide Web, which is a term that is seldom used anymore. The use of www in a domain name is redundant and time consuming, browsers automatically prepend all URLs with the http:// protocol which connects to the HTTP server for serving a sites […]
nbArianrhod boat has now been sold, Tamarisk and I are now offering soyouwannabuyaboat.com for other peoples uses, If you are interested in utilising So You Wanna Buy A Boat please use the contact form to send Tamarisk a message. We are now thinking about how to utilise So You Wanna Buy A Boat […]
For some reason my Project 365 has stopped dealing with emails correctly; so until that is fixed I am going to pause it. I will still poke photos to it sporadically; but they wont be part of my 365. I was using a word press plug in called Postie to check […]
We Got Served’s “Using OS X Lion Server at Home: A Step by Step Guide” by Terry Walsh is a good introduction to OS X Lion Server, I read this one after reading Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office, Its more aimed at setting […]
Charles Edge’s “Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office” (published by O’Reilly books) is a good introduction into the setting up and configuring of Mac OS X Lion Server, its aimed at small workgroup installs, such as Home, SOHO, or Schools. If you’re considering a […]
Following on from Parts one, and two, I now have a mac mini running OS X Lion, and will now be making Lofn into a Fulla replacement. Two small changes need to be made first though to make it less desktop like; and more Server Like (yes before installing Lion […]
Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283) with only 1 Gig of Ram 🙁 however I have […]
On my Day Zero List is to Start my Own Business; I have been toying with the idea of this for a while; and while I do poke Just Vigilantes for a while I have always been running it via a VM with Bytemark. I have also been trying to install Mac […]
I have started setting up //skippy.org.uk as part of my Day Zero challenge list; it wont share an RSS feed with this blog so you may want to add //skippy.org.uk/feed/ to follow it; or follow me on twitter as @SkippyUK. I plan to start this challenge on the first of April; so I have a while to make sure […]
One of the things I love about WordPress is that it is an awesome CMS, I use it to run a number of sites including this one, Loupie.co.uk, UKgoth.info and CamCrew.co.uk It can deal with all the sites, and the plugins required by each to make them work as required. […]
After a step away from using wordpress, I am back to using it; old posts will be back soon, as will some new posts. At some point I should also write a post about the technology and software that goes into running this site, as well as outline my workflow.
As one of the election candidates said they wanted all the union people to have blogs, and such, I am wondering if a copy of WordPress, and a copy of media wiki would work? WordPress for Blogging, and such, and Media Wiki to write out the history and chart out the […]