Changing your permalinks is an important thing to do early on in your website creation. You don’t want people having to visit a page that looks like yoursite.com/12/20/2019/post495. First of all, it’s gross, second, nobody knows what the post is about, and it’s one less indicator to explain to the search engines what the post …
Posts and pages are the foundation of a WordPress website, and one of the first things a new WordPress user will learn how to use. In this post we’re going to talk about the differences between posts and pages, and how to set them up on your site. Posts vs Pages. What’s the difference? a …
One of the first things a new WordPress user wants to do is setup their homepage and their blog. This post will show you how to do it. Keep in mind there are more advanced strategies to design and customize these pages that will be covered later. Click “Settings” -> “Reading” in your admin area …
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WordPress will sometimes do some funny business with the content on your site. Maybe it likes to reformat your table content or adjust your text to something that you didn’t do. Disabling the visual editor can help if you have any customization that breaks because of the visual editor. Luckily it’s so easy to do …
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One of the quickest ways to make your WordPress website more secure is to change the “login” and “admin” pages. WP powers tens of millions of websites across the world, and they all have the same default login page: “wp-admin” and “wp-login.php” which looks like yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php. So hackers will visit your website and see if …
Reusable blocks are a MUST when it comes to growing a business and getting the most out of your website. The WordPress Gutenberg editor makes it easy. What are Reusable blocks and when should I use them? Reusable blocks are reusable ;-). So imagine you’re building an Email list. You want to build your list …
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In this post I’m going to show you how to setup a development environment that allows you to interact with the source code while you develop Gutenberg blocks. Documentation is not always good so the source code really helps. We can use wp-scripts to quickly spin up a local WordPress development environment using Docker. Here’s …
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In this post we’re going to walk through setting up a local Haskell Docker development environment for Haskell projects. We’re going to build it from scratch so you can see how it all works. First, We’re going to assume you have Docker properly installed. Haskell command line programs. First up is your simple command line …
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Linux and Unix Permissions are one of those annoying things that few people understand. They’ll cause errors when you’re coding or installing stuff, and just all around get in your way, but they’re a powerful security feature that prevents someone else, and even yourself from destroying important data. It’s time to dive deep into permissions, …
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As a long time Linux user I’ve always wondered what it’s like to use Windows. Whether you’re switching from Windows to Linux or vice versa, this post is here to help you quickly navigate the command line with a side by side comparison between the Linux terminal and the Windows command prompt. This post assumes …
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