Apr 29 2014
A while ago it came to my attention that the group of plugins called Jetpack were bogging down my WordPress sites with slow load times and even overcoming the server with high demand on the server processor. I am running a Virtual Private Server with lots of power but for this glutton of a plugin …
Jul 16 2012
Not my construction project but I found a photo for the Chittenden Historical Society that was missing in their gallery in the Chittenden Historical Society web site. The Roof Repair shot fills out the photos of the latest improvement to the Chittenden Grange Hall. It has been added to the web site’s gallery which was previously …
Jun 18 2012
I have been working on a WordPress blog and web site for a snowmobile club called the Shrewsbury Sno-Birds. I understand a snowmobile club needs members as it is membership fees that, in great part, fund such a club. The site tries to bring in new members to it’s ranks and be informational to members. …
Apr 20 2012
So far so good. Not a bit of comment spam since I installed the plugin Spam Free. 🙂 See previous blog for details.
Apr 16 2012
It is amazing how much spam wafts around. Just what is the object of comment spam, I have to wonder. (See Wikipedia’s take on it below.) I suppose it is getting someone else to host links to your web site to increase traffic and improve the spammer’s Google rating by having more links on other sites. That …
Mar 30 2012
With the blog’s title now above the banner, I could again allow the featured images associated with the blogs to replace the banner image. After activating this feature I was surprised to see it did not work. I tried both resizing the images to slightly larger than the required size and this seemed to work …
Mar 23 2012
Indeed there are other themes available that allow much greater customization. This one, Grahpene, allows for featured images to replace the header image. The trouble with that is the name of blog is layered on top of the image requiring a contrasting color to stage the text. My featured images are not compatible so, for …
Mar 21 2012
In working with WordPress I have figured out how to make a custom image appear in the banner for each blog. They are screen shots of the sites I have built and they appear on the individual blog pages, not the blog home page where the newest blogs are summarized and a random selection of …
Mar 19 2012
Many thanks to Learn2Wordpress.com for their instructions on how to install WordPress. This enabled me to move from cliffbd.wordpress.com to this blog on my own server.
Oct 12 2011
The Chittenden Dammers Snowmobile Club is the first of my sites I linked to a WordPress blog. The trail conditions blog has become quite popular. This update changes the welcome blurb, the TMA membership form and some photos.
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