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Plugins and Shortcodes
February 21, 2023Plugins and shortcodes can extend WordPress’s power markedly. Tons of free, pre-written ones are available at https://wordpress.org/plugins/. The header there says “Browse 60,453 free plugins” which means most every topic is covered, probably many times over. What if you want to do your own plugins? It turns out that isn’t very difficult and there are many ...Fonts
February 21, 2022This site uses two Google fonts: Quattrocento Sans for body, and Quattrocento Serif for the headings. Check out my article on typography here.Up and Running
February 11, 2022WordPress installed in a matter of minutes today. The variety of themes to choose from is a little daunting, but I will start with WP’s Twenty Twenty-Two — their latest and greatest. Time to pause for a few minutes while I add some plugins, then several images to the media library. /Implementing https on site
November 27, 2016Implementing SSL security on a website is now quite easy — and free, using the Let’s Encrypt free and automated certificate authority. The process is well described here which takes you through the setup of the certificate and implementing it on an apache website. It includes setting up auto-renewal, to guarantee fresh certificates at all times. A final ...Some apt-get commands
May 26, 2014Ubuntu uses the apt package management system which makes updates and upgrades pretty simple. When logging on, ubuntu summarizes available updates. Use the following to do the updates: sudo apt-get upgrade Note, though: However, if you want to upgrade, unconcerned of whether software packages will be added or removed to fulfill dependencies, use the ‘dist-upgrade‘ sub command. Many more apt-get ...NameVirtualHosts
May 3, 2013Apache’s NameVirtualHost mechanism allows (among other things) a single numeric ip address to handle multiple domains’ websites. For example, the DNS entries for both this site (home.acheson.org) and another site point to the same numeric ip address. Apache delivers the appropriate content to incoming requests based upon the domain name in the request record. Setting this ...DNS Works
May 2, 2013When you create an EC2 instance, Amazon assigns a so-called public DNS to it that gets you to your new instance via browser or ssh client or whatever. It is not exactly memorable, looking something like ec2-54-123-45-67.compute-1.amazonaws.com. With just a few minutes of effort, though, you can set your own domain name to point to ...Hello World
April 30, 2013Today I set up a new D7 instance on Amazon Web Services. Some basics about it: The EC2 instance is based on an Ubuntu 12.10. apt-get install added apache2, php5, then mysql, xml, mcrypt, mbstring and gd (sometimes the exact names were php5-name, e.g., php5-mcrypt. Article at http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/build-a-drupal-installation-on-amazon-ec2/5231 was a helphful checklist. After the installation, df -h showed 6.3 Gb ...