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
ClassicPress Compatible with Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimization
I am a big fan of Cloudflare, if you had not known that by my previous posts on them. In Friday October 10 2020, during their Birthday week celebration announcements they released a new feature called Automatic Platform Optimization. This new feature is targeted specifically at WordPress users, which is
How to Migrate from WordPress to ClassicPress
Helping people with their websites over the years has, for the most part, gotten easier. It got a lot easier when I started recommending to clients to use WordPress. It was simple, people could look at the editing screen and easily add/edit their content. That all changed when Automattic and
WordPress 5 Gutenberg Editor: Thoughts and GoodBye
I have been testing the WordPress 5 Beta's since they came out and prior to that I had installed the new Gutenberg plugin on a test website just to get a sense of what is coming in WordPress and I have to say that the future of WordPress is a
WordPress GDPR Plugins
For the record I am not a lawyer and I will not guarantee that any of the content below will help you in being GDPR compliant. Normally I don't pay a lot of attention to laws coming out of the European Union, because frankly I live in Canada and for the
7 Essential WordPress Plugins in 2017
If you are just starting out with WordPress it can be daunting. The huge amount of themes and plugins to choose from is huge, not to mention the learning curve of purchasing a domain name, setting up your hosting, installing WordPress and eventually getting to writing and publishing your website.
CloudGuard
It was not long ago that I was looking for a way to block visitors from some countries on some of my clients websites. The sites really only needed to be accessible from North America and did not need to be exposed to the extra visitors, bandwidth and possible hackers
Kaltura Community Edition
TL;DR version: Don't waste your time. Kaltura server is prone to problems and the player simply doesn't work reliably on a number of platforms. Video has become an important part of many websites, and for some YouTube simply does not cut it any more. Not
Cord Cutting in Regina
There has been a lot of talk over the last little while about the new skinny cable packages that the CRTC made the cable companies implement. I was interested in what the plans would be because it would have been simple to go from the rather large SaskTel MaxTV subscription