Like many geeks, I learned most my development skills in bits and pieces. Google was (and always will be) my friend along the way; Googling different functions and examples as I needed them served me well before. But I never learned the foundational, or core, bits and pieces. I could wrangle some JavaScript as needed, […]
New Diagnoses are Hard, How to Find Peace in the Storm
New diagnoses are downright scary. Finally getting answers to all our questions shouldn’t be. Finding answers should be reassuring and bring some measure of peace. But it rarely does. I learned this the hard way, as one child after another gained new diagnoses over the years. I was sure nothing could scare me anymore. But […]
How NOT to integrate Social Media into your WordPress Site
Know what rocks when you’re rocking that blogging thing and publishing new posts? Seeing your awesome-sauce blogging posts shared on Twitter and Facebook, Pinterest … any of those sites! Am I right? Out comes the big grins and back-slapping … Until … you realize you’re the only one seeing that share. Know what kinda sucks […]
One-Minute Geek Note: New Site Setup – The Domain
There are first steps and then there are FIRST STEPS when it comes to setting up your new WordPress site. You can’t get more basic than deciding on your domain! No matter how knowledgeable you are (or aren’t) about setting up a new site, there’s a few steps that come before you ever touch the […]
WP News: WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release
Version 4.2.2 addresses two security issues: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML file vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. All affected themes and plugins hosted on WordPress.org (including the Twenty Fifteen default theme) have been updated today by the WordPress security team […]