My Big, Black Mountain Bike. Not actually a bike for “Mountain Biking”—which would require for more expensive parts—but more of an all-around bike for roads, muddy fields and river-crossings. The parts are also a combination of old and new. The old ones coming from my first one which is a heavy steel department store bike.…← continue reading →
Severe Pruning a Jackfruit Tree
We have this Jackfruit tree in the backyard that is around 5 years old and about 4 meters tall. It’s already bearing fruit and I was able to harvest twice. The first time (2016) I got 4 pieces of Jackfruit and the second time—this year (2017)—I got 11 pieces. All was going well but then…← continue reading →
How to Find or Contact a Website’s Owner
A lot of people contact me asking to add, change or remove certain aspects about certain websites. The problem is those websites aren’t mine and I have no control over them or their content. Since my WordPress Themes are used by a lot of people for their own WP Sites, their visitors end up following…← continue reading →
So I was recently contacted by a WordPress developer wanting for me to check out and recommend his Plugin on one of my frequently visited post about WordPress widgets.
His message, sent through my contact page, goes like this: “I’ve seen this blog post of yours and would love to recommend this plugin of mine…”
The problem is I’ve already written a post about his widget plugin and I’ve even linked it on the very blog post he mentioned in his message. What does this mean? It means he didn’t even read the post before contacting me 🙄
I find it insincere and spammy. I felt like removing the link to his plugin and recommending something else. So I did 😛
My First Trip to Singapore
I don’t really do any traveling at all here in the Philippines. I haven’t been anywhere outside of Luzon. The farthest south I’ve been to is in the province of Laguna—Though I am planning a solo cycling trip to the Bicol Region. So going outside the country for vacation is kind of a big deal…← continue reading →
Remove Query Strings from WordPress Resources
If you’ve analyzed your WordPress blog with services like GTmetrix or Pingdom Tools, you may have been advised to remove query strings from static resources. That is to remove the part of your resource string (URL) that indicates your WP / Theme / Plugin version number. Their reasoning is that some Proxy Caching servers do…← continue reading →
Clipboard File Holder
Whenever I needed to copy multiple files from multiple folders, what I normally had to do was copy the files from one folder then paste it to the destination. Only after the process had finished would I copy and paste files again from a different folder. This was easy and simple enough. But what if…← continue reading →
Speed Difference in WordPress: PHP 5 vs PHP 7
There’s been a lot of talk about upgrading to PHP 7 especially in the WordPress community. Yoast SEO, a WordPress plugin, recently added a non-dismissible notification urging users who use old versions of PHP 5 to upgrade to PHP 7. I’ve upgraded my server to PHP 7 and although it initially produced some warnings due…← continue reading →