Tag: wordpress
WordPress plugins: A re-evaluation
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With the advent of Google’s March update and chargeable stats for Jetpack, how can you re-optimise your WordPress plugins? Google’s March update was a kick in the teeth for many bloggers, and to add insult to injury, along came a chargeable model for Jetpack stats. My initial reaction was to bin Jetpack altogether, it’s bloatware…
Did Jetpack just ruin WordPress?
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After 9 years as a WordPress and Jetpack user. Jetpack has now started to charge for stats. Bye, Jetpack! You read it right. It’s no longer free to view your website stats if your site is deemed ‘commercial’ (ie. running Google Adsense). It’s a tiered system starting at something £6.95 per month for 10k views…
5 pitfalls of using a free SSL on WordPress
I recently took the plunge to move my site https using a free SSL provided by my hosted company. Here’s 5 pitfalls I encountered in doing so. 1. Reduced Google AdSense revenue Yes, I got a boost in traffic, but what good is that when revenue is down? 2. A lower Google PageSpeed Insights score…
5 Lessons Learned from 400 WordPress Blog Posts
As The Blogging Musician reaches its 400th blog post, here are 5 lessons I learned since the 200th and 100th milestones. Lesson 1: Don’t mess about with WordPress themes (too much) I should listen to my own advice on this, but I just can’t help tinkering with WordPress themes, particularly when a new, lightning-fast, all-singing-all-dancing…
Jetpack 9.2 Breaks WordPress 5.5.3
How the worlds most popular content management system was broken by an update to it’s most popular plugin. As of June 2019, WordPress is used by 60.8% of all websites (whose content management system is known). That’s 27.5% of the top 10 million websites. And Jetpack? That’s WordPress’ number one plugin, shipping as standard on…
New ColorMag Theme!
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I’ve now switched to a new ColorMag theme as the old Dyad theme wasn’t really working anymore, for a number of reasons… Dyad is mostly geared towards image-heavy sites (which mine isn’t), so having all that page real-estate taken up by my amateur efforts seems a waste. I was after a sidebar widget to make my…
Adamharkus.com is now Live!
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If you’re reading this, welcome to my shiny new WordPress.org site ! This is my first step into more ‘serious’ blogging, where I now have full control over content and theming, so expect some changes soon…..