Most of us have assorted beefs with WordPress, but do we know who we’re actually annoyed at? Not necessarily. WordPress is complicated, with a lot of different things going on. The more I find out, the more confused I get, but in this post, I’ll try to tease apart how WordPress works, including how it’s …
Yesterday, I came across a few posts by my blogging friends about changes that WordPress is making in the plans it offers. I thought I’d do some investigating to help give people some ideas on how to deal with this change. I’m getting the details on the plan options from WP’s Pricing page and WordPress.com …
The whole link in bio situation seems to have arisen because of Instagram. It allows you one link in your profile, and doesn’t allow links in posts to your feed, although it recently started allowing people to use links in their stories. For those of you who don’t know or give a rat’s ass about …
There are two different ways you can do WordPress: having a plan with WordPress.com, where they host your blog, or being self-hosted using the WordPress.org software. What’s the difference, and which is better? Let’s chat about that. Note that your domain name is unrelated to this; hosting is about the servers where your blog lives. …
Tech has become a huge part of most people’s lives. The combination of tech and social media (and other websites) means the potential for a lot of notifications. How do you manage them to keep them from getting overwhelming? Push vs pull A lot of sites and apps try to send you push notifications, shoving …
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While we’re mostly interested in the human visitors to our blogs, it can be fascinating to see what some of the non-human visitors are getting up to, including an assortment of bad bots. What a 404 error is Before we get to the main part of this post, I need to quickly explain what a …
