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 →
Bike Ride to Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat! It’s a prominent mountain near my vicinity. It has the distinction of being the only mountain rising in the mostly flat farmlands of Central Luzon. This mountain actually has a lot to do on why I got into Cycling. As I’ve stated on another post on why I’ve started riding a bike again,…← continue reading →
Fix bbPress Form Shortcode not Showing
bbPress Create Topic Form not showing? I have guest posting enabled in my bbPress plugin but for some reason the Create Topic Form is not showing. This issue becomes apparent when the following are true: Anonymous or Guest Posting is enabled. The shortcode [bbp-topic-form] is used. The shortcode is added on a page. The page…← continue reading →