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Fixing a blank page when updating WordPress
Sometimes, when trying to update WordPress using its built-in updater, I end up with a mostly blank screen. Not a completely blank one – the menu and title bar are there – but there’s no content. It’s...
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The times, they are a changin’
So yesterday’s blog post was on the riveting subject of retirement and pensions. It was only after I’d written it that I realised just how much I, and the things I write about, have changed over the...
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Finding a Medium
I’ve posted my first piece on Medium. Entitled ‘Too many inboxes‘, it was inspired by this Tweet from Buzzfeed’s Chris Applegate:Trying to remember whether I agreed to drinks with @humour42 over SMS,...
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Pitching or Pestering
When I started blogging back in 2002, it was just a hobby and I wrote solely about things that I found or did. Things have changed over the years, and whilst most of what I write is still about things...
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2015’s most popular blog posts
Okay, so we’re a few days into 2016, but I thought it would be nice to review the most popular blog posts from last year. This is based on the number of views, and uses statistics provided by...
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14 years of blogging
Today marks 14 years since my first blog post. No, I can’t quite believe it either.Considering all of the things that have happened in my life over the past 14 years, I’m pleased with myself for...
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Five years of WordPress
Just as WordPress itself turns 13 years old, it’s been five years since I switched the back-end content management system on this blog to WordPress. Above is a screenshot of the first theme that I...
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15th Blogiversary
Today marks 15th years since I made my first post on this blog, back in 2002. It’s a big, round number, and one that I don’t think I would’ve ever expected this blog to reach. As I mentioned in my...
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You may have noticed that there was no Links from Pinboard post last week. This seems to be because of a problem with the RSS Digest plugin that I use. It looks like a recent update to WordPress has...
View ArticleUsing the Gutenberg editor in WordPress
Yesterday, I upgraded to the newly-released version 4.9.8 of WordPress (soooo close to 5.0!) which allows you to opt into the new Gutenberg editor (available as a plugin). Gutenberg is the single...
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