Tag: Wordpress

  • WordPress: Remove broken links

    As a general rule, I don’t do much in the way of SEO (search engine optimization) on this blog. I’m not trying to sell anything, readership numbers are largely irrelevant to me, and I am not serving any ads. While I wouldn’t mind having a readership in the tens or hundreds of thousands, the fact…

  • Enabling two-factor authentication on WordPress

    For the past two years, I’ve been enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever I can, and particularly on services where I want to ensure that my data is as secure as possible. Back in April, I added 2FA to this site. As this was the first time I’d ever set something like this up on a…

  • A new outlook on life

    Having played with the idea for some time now, I finally decided it was time to switch out my old theme for this one. Though there was nothing wrong with the old theme, per se, I had grown tired of it, and opted to swap to this one. The old theme, NewBlue by Blog Design…

  • Adding a personal message for commenters

    If you have left a comment, you might have noticed that there is a message for you before the comment field, that looks like this:     It’s pretty simple to implement, though you do need to muck about a very little bit in php. Here’s how: Log on to the admin panel in your…

  • WordPress and the Mystery of the Disappearing Line Breaks

    I’ve been running my blog on Wordpres for over a month now, and I am mostly happy with what I’m seeing. It does most of what I want it to do natively. As for what it doesn’t do natively, there is usually a plugin to do that for you.   The only thing I’ve as…