Cloudflare Email Routing Broken
TL;DR: Cloudflare email routing and support sucks, move your email forwarding to ImprovMX. One of the problems with hosting your website on a service like DigitalOcean is the fact that they don't offer email. If you want an email address associated with your domain you had to go elsewhere.
Backblaze B2 to Cloudflare Using Page Rules
Two companies I really like are Backblaze and Cloudflare. I have trusted Backblaze for years with my personal computer backup and I have been a long time customer of Cloudflare since 2011 at least. Both companies are part of the bandwidth alliance, meaning you don't have to worry about bandwidth
Mastodon Autopost Plugin
I saw this plugin mentioned on Mastodon today and thought I would give it a try on ClassicPress and see if it worked. Install in ClassicPress went easily, like most WordPress plugins do. There were no warnings and ClassicPress says it is compatible. The only hard part was finding the
Disable the W3 Total Cache Footer Comment
Most of the WordPress/ClassicPress websites I work on use Cloudflare I don't often have problems with the W3 Total Cache footer comments in the footer. Cloudflare usually just removes them. But recently I was helping a friend with a website that had the W3 Total Cache plugin installed and the
Safari Blocking Google Analytics
If you do a search on Google for "safari blocking google analytics" you will probably find a lot of posts like the following: As mentioned above, Safari does not block Google Analytics. You can still still see your website analytics. Jun 3, 2022 https://www.simpleanalytics.com/en/blog/does-safari-block-google-analytics-and-apple-privacy-updates No, Safari 14 (or any
Get Around the Twitter Social Media Link Ban
Twitter and Elon Musk are getting dumber by the day. Honestly I have mostly stopped visiting Twitter and spend more time now on Mastodon but it recently came to my attention that you can no longer link to your Mastodon account from Twitter. Essentially Twitter has put up what is
Google Analytics Exporting Guide
If you have been using Google Analytics to track your website usage and have historical data you want to keep you might want to put this on your to-do list in the New Year. As you may know Google Analytics will stop processing new data effective July 1, 2023 and
Core Web Vitals Biggest Flaw
I will say the majority of time the engineers at Google are really smart and I understand the rational behind Core Web Vitals. Fast web pages are better for everyone, but the way Google measures Core Web Vitals has a major flaw, see if you can spot it in the
The Future of Social Media
Social media has played a huge role the last few years in people's personal lives, in politics and of course in business. More and more people are on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube than ever before, but is that interaction positive. At one time people's feeds were simply created by the
Cloudflare Location Check
Recently I had a client come to me with a very interesting problem. They have multiple web servers running behind a Cloudflare load balancer and the majority of those requests flow through the load balancer and are directed properly. However, there were still a number of requests that would make