herb miller

WordPress plugin specialist

Google Maps once again requiring an API key

I’ve been porting a site from Drupal to WordPress recently but it wasn’t until I loaded it onto hosting with 1&1 that I noticed some problems with my [bw_show_googlemap] shortcode. I’ve fixed the problem in oik v3.0.2. The new solution requires you to obtain a Google Maps API key, and enter it in oik options. [Read more…]

Installing Imagick for PHP 7 on Windows 10

If you’re running PHP 7 on Windows and you want to use the Imagick PHP extension then you may want to refer to this post for some download and installation instructions. [Read more…]

Genesis [Read more…] links on archive pages

With the Genesis Theme Framework, on the “blog” page (Content Archives), what you get to see depends on the values for the Content Archives fields in Genesis > Theme Settings.

For the Display field the choices are Entry content or Entry excerpts.

Here we’re looking at whether or not a [Read more…] link will be shown. [Read more…]

bucket list – WordCamp London: 8-10 April 2016 (#wcldn)

In 2015 I wrote a bucket list of things to achieve before leaving WordCamp London; bucket list – post WordCamp London 2015. After the event it was much longer; bucket list – WordCamp London: 20-22 March 2015 (#wcldn). This year I’ve volunteered my services to help with the running of the event. Will I have more or less opportunity to work on my bucket list? It’s a bigger list than ever.

If you happen to know an answer, just come to find me, let me know, and then after a few more questions you can go on your way.

I’ll be wearing a blue “localhost” T-shirt, just like the other volunteers. If you can’t find me just tell another volunteer and they can either pass it on through Group Me, or look utterly bemused.

Here’s my list, in no particular order. [Read more…]

Disappeared without a trace

Just recently something went terribly wrong and I lost some recently made source code updates that, even though they’d been checked into version control had not been pushed anywhere. So there was no backup. It’s my own stupid fault; I let WordPress make an update that it shouldn’t have. [Read more…]

H2GD Part 54: Windows 10 butterfly effect

Here’s a sequence of events I wouldn’t wish on anyone. What started out as one website running low on disk space ended up with me having to reload some of my local databases from backups. [Read more…]

allow-reinstalls – The WordPress user’s lament

How many of you have bought a premium theme (or plugin ) for your website, which was easy to install… but then something went wrong, or they made a change, and you got a “download” file which got you stumped.

You tried to upload it but the “computer said NO.” Here are my thoughts on the subject. [Read more…]

Tide times from tidetimes.co.uk

Tide Times & Heights for Northney on Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Low Tide: 04:01 ( 0.40m )
High Tide: 11:05 ( 4.70m )
Low Tide: 16:21 ( 0.40m )
High Tide: 23:27 ( 5.00m )

Tide times from tidetimes.org.uk

Tide Times & Heights for Northney on 24th May 2017
04:01 - Low Tide ( 0.43m )
11:05 - High Tide ( 4.72m )
16:21 - Low Tide ( 0.39m )
23:27 - High Tide ( 4.98m )

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