Tag: wordpress
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I stopped using Opera web browser. Here’s why
First, using Opera Web Browser on Macbook Air M2, I do experience crashes when there is an update. I need to kill it with Activity Monitor. This is disgusting.
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WordPress user prior to 6.4 may want to disable attachment pages
If you are upgrading your WordPress site from any version prior to 6.4, you will have option for wp_attachment_pages_enabled configured to 1 (true). According to announcement by WordPress, you will need to modify the value manually to 0 to disable attachment page creation.
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You shouldn’t be using any WordPress SMTP plugin
Instead, configure your web server on the Operating System level with Postfix. This is better way since Postfix will handle the rest. Also, provided if there is latency between the web server and the email provider, it will not affect your WordPress performance.
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WordPress does not have IPv6 support (yet)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that there will be additional charges for the use of IPv4. The additional charges is for Elastic Classic Compute (EC2) users that are using IPv4 (either with Static or Dynamic IP Address). Previously, the use of IPv4 with EC2 is Free. If you are thinking about ditching IPv4 for…
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Adding imagick to PHP 7.4 and 8.1 on MacOS 12.6
I’m currently preparing my brand new Macbook Air for WordPress plugin development. I have installed PHP 8.1 using homebrew, a well-known package manager for most software developers using Mac. After installing WordPress, I notice WordPress complained about missing imagick library. I tried to install but encountered an error.
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5 reasons why NOT TO host WordPress on Heroku
Heroku is a great platform for web developers to quickstart with web application development. 2 years back, I wrote an article about how I manage to install WordPress on Heroku. At that time, I was thinking it is cool to have WordPress installed on Heroku as it is cost-free to start. However, after a few…