I can’t stand the new WordPress editor. It’s too trying to be simple while doing auto-magical stupid things. Anyhow, you can install the old WordPress editor by as a plugin. Click Plugins Search for “Classic Editor” Add and activate Be aware the old editor adds mark up to the posts that it creates like so: … Read more
I host a couple of WordPress sites on Ubuntu hosted on Digital Ocean droplets. I use their standard WordPress application (pre built WordPress on Ubuntu) with the smallest size Droplet possible. It has just 512MB Ram and 20GB SSD Disk and 1 logical core – i.e. it isn’t very quick. Anyhow, I started to have … Read more
I just discovered a nice little word count plugin which adds your the total word count for your WordPress site. I was really surprise to discover that I have written 23,700 Words over 3 years.
There are two variables which restrict the maximum media upload size to wordpress. There are PHP variables. Assuming that you are using Ubuntu and Apache then you should create a .ini file in the conf.d directory. Don’t edit the default php.ini file because this is sometimes updated by the package maintainer and there is a … Read more
I’ve just installed SyntaxHighlighter on this blog to style the code snippets. The default font-size was too large for the website. They don’t seem to have any documention or setting to adjust the font-size. The solution is to add some custom css to your theme style: