Filename conventions and types for images and graphics used in a WordPress blog. Use of non-ascii and language-specific characters, in particular Cyrillic Image types – jpg, png and others Filenames – length and naming Duplicate images As a rule of thumb, for blog images use jpg format with names which are easy to interpret, using …
WordPress Child Themes (work in progress) Child Themes allow you to edit any theme files you want without disrupting critical theme updates. If you are making changes to core theme files they will be overwritten when performing an update, but child themes are in a separate directory (not a subdirectory of the main theme) and are …
Too Much is Never Enough How not to retain your email audience Roy and H.G. are Australian commentators who mercilessly lampoon topical sports-related topics. They were (probably still are) enormously popular on radio and their catch phrase, Too Much is Never Enough, is now part of the idiom. There are times however when it’s really …
Blue Screen of Death – Error Messages This post addresses one of the many errors which may be experienced by users using any number of combinations of browser, operating system and device. These images show the results of HTML compression errors in a WP cache – WP Super Cache with HTML compression turned on. Turning compression …
WordPress subscriber emails A busy WP blog may send many subscriber emails and newsletters, and 10 or 20 emails per day is probably too many for some, so a digest is desirable. Some solutions to examine: Jetpack A WP plugin (actually a suite of plugins) with many uses, one of which is to handle outgoing emails via …