Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders

The piece of text I’ve used as this article’s title should be familiar to all WordPress users. Can’t place it? The image above should give you a clue… it’s on… More »

Connecting to Let’s Encrypt SSL sites via cURL from MAMP

This is a brief lesson in diagnostics that some may find helpful. The Scenario I develop websites on a Mac running MAMP. On my Mac I have an installation of… More »

Folders on top with El Capitan

For the last three years I’ve been happily seeing folders at the top of all file lists in my Mac’s Finder windows, thanks to a wonderful little free utility called… More »

ZigPress – now with added ZigCare

It’s been quite a long time in the making but the new ZigPress website is finally live. We hope you like it. Our goals in this redesign were easy navigation… More »

How to disable responsive images in WordPress 4.4

The latest version of WordPress, 4.4 (“Clifford”), has rolled out a feature whereby it adds ‘srcset’ attributes to all image tags in order that browsers can decide which image to… More »

Why I’m ditching Evernote for Simplenote

For the last three years (ever since I switched from PC to Mac in fact) I’ve used Evernote as my personal notes repository, using mainly the Mac application and Android… More »

WooCommerce products not showing on your Shop page?

Here’s a quick tip for those developing a WooCommerce-based website, particularly if it’s your first time. Sometimes, after installing WooCommerce into your WordPress installation, and adding a product, you’ll find… More »

How to remove the security hole in WordPress comment HTML

Before reading further, you should read my earlier post, Your WordPress site comments are giving information to hackers, since this post provides a neater solution to the problem described in… More »

Your WordPress site comments are giving information to hackers

Something I recently discovered: if you run a WordPress site and make a comment on a post yourself while logged in, information relating to your username is added to the… More »

A responsive website is now more important than ever

In a few days Google will change the way it decides what will be shown in the results when people search for something using a smartphone. That simple sentence doesn’t… More »