I wanted to share a handy Google Script which I came across initially in this older and now locked Reddit thread. I have updated the script which you can find here, this script will automatically add videos from your subscribed channels to a specified YouTube playlist. You need to new email notifications turned on for the…
Continue reading →One of the main reasons I moved away from Blogger to WordPress was the difficulty in making Blogger searchable. Ironic for a service owned by Google! Every time I did a search on my site it would only every return one result, this is because it treated the whole site as one big page, so…
Continue reading →As you’ll have noted from previous posts, I recently moved to this WordPress site from a Blogger blog. There are various reasons for this but mainly because the search functionality for Blogger content was useless. The added benefit for moving to WordPress is the additional level of control I now have over everything. WordPress also…
Continue reading →I will fully admit that I have cribbed the following plugin and optimisation recommendations from the brilliant Labnol site: http://www.labnol.org/internet/wordpress-optimization-guide/3931/ http://www.labnol.org/software/must-have-wordpress-plugins/14034/ This is a great site which is one of my ‘daily visits’, it regularly has superb how-to guides and it coincidentally had these WordPress articles at just the right time I needed them. Both…
Continue reading →I will fully admit that I have cribbed the following optimisation recommendations from the brilliant Labnol site: http://www.labnol.org/software/must-have-wordpress-plugins/14034/ This is a great site which is one of my ‘daily visits’, it regularly has superb how-to guides and it coincidentally had these WordPress articles at just the right time I needed them. Both the ‘Optimisations’ and ‘Must…
Continue reading →In a previous post we worked through setting up your WordPress site on NearlyFreeSpeech. Now I thought I’d write about the additional configuration steps I take with my WordPress sites once I have the base install up and running. These are generic and can be used across any installation which is why I’ve separated them…
Continue reading →This quick guide will show you how to run a command in an SSH session and allow you to disconnect and leave the command to keep running. I use this frequently for running my backups to external drives so that I can kick them off then shut down my laptop instead of leaving it running…
Continue reading →In a previous post we worked through setting up your WordPress site on NearlyFreeSpeech. Now I thought I’d write about the additional configuration steps I take with my WordPress sites once I have the base install up and running. These are generic and can be used across any installation which is why I’ve separated them…
Continue reading →Hi readers, Just a quick note to say that I’m off on holidays for the next few weeks so any updates will be few and far between. Looking forward to recharging and getting some time to think about the more meaty theological things that I’d like to start working through. Among these… Biblical inerrancy –…
Continue reading →The first post helped you get your NFS database set up. The second post got WordPress installed. And this third post will show you how to serve your WordPress site via HTTPS/SSL. Using TLS / HTTPS can be tricky to get configured. First, make sure you don’t have an .htaccess file in your root redirecting…
Continue reading →This post will get your WordPress installation working on NFS. The first post walked through setting up the NFS database. And the third post will show you how to turn on HTTPS. Download WordPress The next step is to download WordPress to NFS. Some basic knowledge is assumed here so hopefully you know how to SSH…
Continue reading →NearlyFreeSpeech (NFS) is a bare bones service provider for people who know what they are doing. This makes it a bit more involved in setting up things which other hosting providers may make a bit more straightforward. I’ll walk you through the process of getting WordPress working on a NearlyFreeSpeech hosted site over the next…
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