Plugins add icons and content to the top bar in the WordPress post and page editor. These can be overwhelming, fighting for space. Have you searched in the settings for the related plugins and searched for options under the preferences accessed from the 3 dots in the top right hand corner, all without success? If […]
Web Page Background Images
Images can be added to a web page to provide a static background image, a transition between sections of a page or a texture. The expectations regards the references for the inclusion of background images has changed in preference to the use of a separate CSS file. However, the older method is still supported. It […]
Change root User Email Address
Easy to ignore the mail notifications on a linux computer/server. Why not add a forward to the email on the root user to an email address? Forward File Simply create the file /root/.forward and place your email address in this file. It will be forwarded to your external mail address. We can simply create .forward […]
ffmpeg mp4 Better Compression
Interested in improving the compression for mp4 files output from ffmpeg. Looking for a saved file size comparable equivalent formats: ogv; mkv. I had found that my files mp4 created by ffmpeg following an action such as top and tail were larger than the original.The mp4 version of a file was much larger when compared […]
Reset Forgotten Windows 10 Password, PIN is Known
How to change the password on a Window 10 local account, given that the old password is not known. But it’s possible to login to the computer using either the PIN or finger print reader. The dialogue to change the user password requires the old password to be entered first, then the two fields for […]
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Resize Images and Save as webp with Krita
Krita, the, digital sketching and painting program for artists, can be used to resize and save images to webp for websites. Google and SEO websites promote the use of webp as the format to save images in for inclusion on websites. Krita can be downlaoded from the website: https://krita.org/en/download/ Open Krita to view a screen […]
PHP Browser Redirection
Whilst the .htaccess file may be used to provide temporary and permanent redirects to manage pages which have been deleted or moved, PHP also provides redirect methods. Using PHP to redirect the browser may be a better option compared to htaccess if the server prevents the file from being overwritten, or indeed if its inaccessible. […]
Add a Twitter Feed to Your Website
I wished to show a number of posts from a twitter account on a website. The website page would show the latest Twitter entries (timeline) associated with an account. Twitter has a couple of pages from which details were derived about adding a timeline to a website. twitter for websites – timeline overview twitter for […]
Replace Default Unable to Connect to Database Error Message
If the WordPress site is unable to temporarily connect to it’s associated database a message is shown reporting the error, informing the visitor. Such an incident happened to me recently. When connecting to a test website I saw a message: Error Establishing a Database Connection Advising visitors of this information is potentially giving more information […]
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How to Flow Text Around an Image
By setting the align attribute of the <img> tag it is possible to make the text flow around an image. The align attribute can take the following options: So if we take an image: <img src=”tree.jpg”/> and add align=”left” we have our image on the left hand side, with our text on multiple lines flowing […]
