2 minute read Tl;Dr; To copy your site’s Health Check info, go to on WordPress 5.1 and earlier, install the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin; on WordPress 5.2 and later skip this WordPress admin dashboard under “Tools” click “Site Health” click “Info” tab click “Copy info to clipboard” paste it More Details In WordPress 5.2, the plugin Health […]
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Read More Problem Using SSH keys and Eclipse’s REmote System Explorer2 minute read I’ve spent a few hours setting up password-free ssh access to Dreamhost’s websites a couple times now, and don’t want to waste this time again. Dreamhost has instructions on how to do it with Windows and PuTTY, and how to do it on Mac, but I’m using Windows with Laragon‘s Terminal which has a few […]
Read More Password-Free SSH For Windows without Putty7 minute read When trying to speed up your PHP web applications, it sure helps to know where the bottle necks are. That’s where Xdebug and Q Cache Grind can help: they can tell you which functions and class methods are taking up the most time and memory, how many times they’re called, and who called them. With this information, it’s far easier to speed up your code than “shooting in the dark” by just trying to optimize everything.
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Read More How I fixed several problems using Nest/Google Protect Smoke Alarms6 minute read So you have a blog to share your stories with friends, family, and the world. Great. But will it still exist in 50 years? How about 100? Most likely it will fall victim to the “Digital Dark Age“, and won’t be available. Your grandfather’s memoirs written on paper might be more accessible than your blog. […]
Read More Immortalize Your Blog by Turning It into a Family Search Memory3 minute read Yesterday, a site I maintain, earlychildhoodeducator.com, was having issues communicating with Amazon’s Product Advertising API. Here’s what I learned about the problem and how we fixed it (in case you’re likewise having issues with it!) How we use Amazon Product Advertising API The website is for an online school, and they have links to the […]
Read More Dealing with Amazon Product Advertising API Policy Changes5 minute read The bane of all Javascript code using jQuery.ajax() is polluted JSON responses: when some HTML or other junk gets into your JSON response, making it unparsable and bringing the whole system to a screeching halt. In this post, I’ll show what you can do with polluted JSON to keep everything working. How It’s Supposed to […]
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