URL Shortener
So, it’s been a desire of mine for a while to make up a URL shortener. It seems like such a trivial coding experiment, but a fun one. The first hurdle, getting something better than base10 for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Optimize Prime
Using the wonder that is a personal website, I’m spending today working on optimizing page load times on my site. I’m already ran my theme images through smush.it, and am now working on hosting static...
View ArticleWordpress _transient buildup
Wordpress uses DB entries called _transients to cache certain data. Cached entries are by default, things like RSS info, when cron last run, etc. If you use a plugin like Google Analytics Dashboard...
View ArticleClik here to view.
fail2ban Wordpress and Cloudflare
Like most people that run a Wordpress site, or any CMS, I’ve struggled with brute force attacks on my site. Having just installed fail2ban on a mail server, this seemed like an obvious. Thankfully, as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wordpress doesn’t create thumbnails
I had an interesting issue hit my site recently, that I still can’t figure out WHY it happened, but after a few days of troubleshooting, I have figured out what happened, and how to fix it. First, let...
View Article