Using the AI Assistant I have added Jetpack’s AI assistant to my Threads blog, and today I tested it on a fairly lengthy post. I thought I’d show what it did here. I found its suggestions helpful, and I implemented most. There was another round, but they went beyond the time I was planning to…
This is not my explanation, but since I ran into the problem and it took a bit of time to find the correct instructions, I want to call attention to HOW TO FIX CUSTOM FIELDS NOT SHOWING IN WORDPRESS. This fixed the problem for me. Note that I’m already using a child theme in order…
I found this article on the Imunify360 blog well worth the time.
If you are using WordPress on a server with Imunify360, and get the error message “Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.” check whether you have any 3rd party rule sets enabled. This has happened to me twice following an update, so I thought someone else might be helped by having a…
The hope of getting something for nothing was encouraged with the advent of computers and software. For technically oriented people, it’s fairly easy, and relatively safe, to steal software. You just copy it. For many, especially in the early days, this didn’t seem like stealing. After all, where is the thing that you’re stealing? I…
Very soon now, WordPress will have a new editor, called Gutenberg. It has been in production for some time. I want to update my IT clients and authors about this change. There are many lengthy reviews of Gutenberg, and many debates about its functionality. I’m going to keep this brief. Gutenberg is the technically oriented,…
Wordfence Lists Top Security Analysis Tools, and it is generally worthwhile to read their material.
A few minutes ago I encountered an error on one of my sites. The front end was working fine, but I got a 500 error “The site isn’t working properly. These errors remind me of when I was about 12 and was asked to spend some time playing with a six-year-old, showing him my electric…
Sometimes those who know how things like a .htaccess file works fail to mention really simple things. So I’m going to mention this one. I have a site with multiple domain names that I want to consolidate. Thus I’m creating a single site, but because of numerous existing links, I want the domain names to…
After I started using Disqus for comments on another web site, I was still getting huge amounts of spam. None of it showed on the web site, which is good, but it was getting to be a sizable portion of the database. After seeing several responses to different problems that produced similar keywords, I found…
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