My WordPress has HTTPS, Now What? [Part 2]

If your site on WordPress has HTTPS and you have read Have HTTPS on WordPress, Now What? [Part 1] for the most essential steps, ensuring that your secure HTTPS versions are automatically served up … what else do you have to do now to ensure that some of the other important related resources are also […]

Have HTTPS on WordPress, Now What? [Part 1]

OK I have https on my WordPress sites.  Yup, in my last post (My sites don’t have HTTP. So What?), I said I didn’t have, and maybe didn’t need, and so wouldn’t implement HTTPS. However since then, I have found out that my website host (HostGator) has automatically provided and enabled SSL certificates for my […]

My sites don’t have HTTPS. So what?

Addendum 4 Apr 2019: Ooops! I do have HTTPS!!! If you glance at the URL in your address bar, you might note that. This all came about with an accidental discovery. I wrote about this in I Have HTTPS on WordPress. What Now? … and what steps you have to take next to ensure all […]

Auto Ads for Adsense in Word Press

What are Auto Ads for Adsense? After so many years, I still find Google’s Ad Sense confusing.  But it still manages to earn me a bit of money.  Recently (well maybe not so recently), I received an email from Google re. Auto Ads and suggesting I set them up.  Of course, I procrastinated. But today […]

How to Prevent Comments on WP

The aim is to stop or prevent comments on WordPress. I know this is unusual but you might, as I have, decide that for some of your sites, you no longer want to have comments made on your blogs.  For me, it is nothing bad – no one said anything nasty or disturbing. However I […]

How to Get Rid of WordPress Block Editor

Hey it might be good but right now I just want my familiar WP Classic Editor back, thank you very much. It is rather annoying to be faced with that overly large, fancy, new WordPress Block Editor as the automatic default editor and return to the familiar Classic Editor. So without more ado, let’s get […]

Private Page/Post, How To in WordPress

The aim here is to make a WordPress post or page private. (Not the whole site. To make the whole site private, see link below.)  That means no one can see it, even if they know the URL. Actually I want to make all the pages/posts within a category to be private.  So let’s go […]

MailChimp Featured Image Not Working in RSS Newsletter

MailChimp Featured Image Not Working in RSS Newsletter: There is a featured image problem with MailChimp RSS Newsletter.  In short, their RSS Image Merge tag *|RSSITEM:IMAGE|* does not pull in the required featured image from the blog posts.

Display WP Posts in a Visual Grid Layout

How to Display WP posts in a Visual Grid Layout     What I want to do, especially over at my ClearlyHelena.com website, is to be able to (automatically) display all my posts (within a category) in a visual grid layout. The visual grid layout makes finding articles (posts) much easier.  At the moment, WP […]