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Fuck Jetpack

February 10, 2024February 1, 2024 Medic 1 Comment jetpack, wordpress

When I was new to WordPress, there was this handy plugin called Jetpack. Made by a company called Automattic, it added a ton of useful features, all for free. These included things like extra widgets, an easy contact form you could add to your website, a vastly detailed stat system and an easy way to post blog posts to other websites. Sure, Jetpack constantly tried to sell you its premium version, after all, that’s what most free plugins do to try and make money, but the features it offered were great, and the price for the premium stuff wasn’t too… [Continue Reading]

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Writing an Article with the ‘Gutenberg’ WordPress Block Editor

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Medic 3 Comments block editor, gutenberg, wordpress

So I’ve discussed the Gutenberg Block Editor on WordPress before. The Block Editor is a feature that cam with WordPress version 5.0, which was supposed to completely transform the way you write and build your pages. Clearly WordPress was starting to realise that a large part of their market consisted of people who used WordPress to make actual websites, rather than just blogging and writing. I mean, that’s understandable. In a way. People want to be innovative with their products. But innovation isn’t always a good thing. And the innovation behind the Block Editor is starting to show itself as… [Continue Reading]

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WordPress WordPress WordPress

May 13, 2019May 11, 2019 Medic 0 Comments ramble, random, wordpress

I’ve been using WordPress for what, 5 years now? More probably. In fact, I don’t really remember how I got into making sites with WordPress, it’s just what I do these days. Maybe it’s worth going down memory lane and having a look. Especially now since I need a distraction after a missing ‘#’ in some of my code has made me look like a fucking idiot. Although worryingly, as soon as I started writing, WordPress has started showing me a Connection lost error. I assume that’s just coincidence, right? Anyway, WordPress was never the first content management system (CMS)… [Continue Reading]

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On WordPress 5.0

January 9, 2019January 7, 2019 Medic 0 Comments blog, wordpress, writing

WordPress 5.0 came out late November. Not long afterwards, WordPress 5.0.1 and WordPress 4.9.9 came out to address a bunch of security issues. Not long after that, WordPress 5.0.2 was released to deal with some bugs. Now, normally I update WordPress as soon as I can, after checking that there’s nothing weird. All my WordPress installations are set up to automatically download and do security updates, but it’s worth checking before you do a major update just in case a plugin is no longer compatible. Most plugin authors will want to update their work as well, so you’ll always end… [Continue Reading]

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On WordPress

July 14, 2018July 11, 2018 Medic 0 Comments text editor, wordpress

I like WordPress. WordPress is cool. Well, WordPress.org is cool. WordPress.com, I don’t particularly like, but it definitely does the job. “But wait aren’t they the same thing?” Nope. WordPress.com is a blogging system hosted by WordPress. Think more along the lines of Tumblr. You can blog and do what you want but there’s also a bit of a community feeling about it all. You can browse other people’s WordPress sites and everyone’s website (unless you pay) has the same domain name, generally something like spuf.wordpress.com. That being said, spuf.wordpress.com doesn’t actually exist. I considered making it at some point,… [Continue Reading]