Putting Mad Tea Party on CDN or any other cache servers have been on the back burner for the longest time. And for the first time since its inception, and frankly thanks to free tier services available, Mad Tea Party is now using CDN. It won’t drastically change the experience for the readers; perhaps some European traffic may be able to see the benefit. Other than that, I just wanted to see how free tier CDN operates.
Tagged WordPress
How to Replace WP-Cron with Linux Cron pt. 2
It’s been about 4 months since I wrote about wp-cron madness. To reiterate why wp-cron had to be called manually, that’s due to how some of the cron jobs weren’t executed even though it was queued for prolonged time. I’ve tried three different methods, one of which was to tackle only the cache. As of writing this, I’m settled with wget method.
How to Replace CSS import with link on WordPress
When I started tweaking the theme for WordPress, I started with css, especially the fonts. I wanted the fonts that mimic paper-like experience as much as possible, and although the goal post has shifted quite a lot since, the way I had done fonts on css were almost always the same.
App to Cache Google Fonts on WordPress for GDPR
Yet another post diving into the unguided madness that is privacy laws. By all means, while I am in favor of the privacy regulations, it’s hard for me to fathom what service —not what technology— could be in violation of the new law. Google Analytics had its own share of spotlight, hence why I became aware of it and wrote about it previously. Traffic analytics suites have been the prime subject out of the proposed bill, and that’s what the law and regulators were after, openly discussing how it would shape the industry thereafter. But what about fonts?
WordPress, Ulysses, and Integration
I’ve been writing on Ulysses app for some time, and I had been using Ulysses under the assumption that the app is pulling double duty as WordPress post editor; it is not. Ulysses doesn’t have access to posts already published on WordPress. From the email responses I’ve gotten from Ulysses team, it appears this is a technical issue whereby no future update is planned as of yet.
How to Use iCloud Mail with External Self-Hosting Domain
Until recently, I had the emails for themtparty.com to either redirect to each authors or the admin address. I wasn’t interested in having a separate email service for self-hosted WordPress blog, but there were times when I needed @themtparty.com email addresses.
How to Adjust Aspect Ratio for Image Class in WordPress
If you are posting regularly on WordPress-run websites, you are most likely also posting an image as visual aid —best way to describe what the post is without a single word. And as I had discussed it in an op-ed, aspect ratio is a thing for modern readers, and images will play a major role in how much space of that screen will be used.
How to Replace WP-Cron with Linux Cron
In my previous posts, I tried fixing WordPress’ weird behaviors with scheduled post not publishing correctly when the site uses a caching plugin. One such attempt was to add hooks to activate cache purging, and another was to forcefully activate wp-cron.php. I had hoped this would solve the problem, but I couldn’t get the stable results with neither of options —to the point where one of the recent posts weren’t published due to “missed scheduled post” error. The error seemed to be on parallel with the documentations I’ve read on wp-cron so far, so I decided to move on to…
How to Change WordPress Tag Cloud Tag Number
The title might be mouthful, but WordPress’ embedded tag cloud widget has a default limit on how many tags it will display. The widget does not update automatically based on the space, —yes, I was surprised to find out about it too— and the maximum number of tags the widget displays is set as a variable as far as I am aware.
How to Troubleshoot WordPress Scheduled Post Not Publishing pt. 2
I’m still in the process of gathering more information on the subject, but I did manage to find what could be the another source of the same problem. Please read through the symptoms part of the previous post to see if this is your case. But to put simply, when your website uses a cache plugin and fails to show a scheduled post, even though the post is published on the dashboard, it is likely caused by the said cache plugin not purging (or updating) the caches of the website after the scheduled post came online.
How to Troubleshoot WordPress Scheduled Post Not Publishing
No doubt different writers have different post publishing schedules, but we all do have a schedule —or at least try— to follow. What used to be simple ‘schedule to publish’ on WordPress is quite no more, however, with many hosting services now require WordPress hosted websites to take advantage of caching. Personally I find it odd that they do, considering caching does require some manual setup.
Disabling WordPress Theme Updates Notification
WordPress comes with some quirks,as its a free, open-source platform. While WordPress as a software has come a long way since becoming one of the pioneers, its economy is no different from mobile OS. Plugins and themes almost always fall in to 4 categories: free, freemium, paid, or subscription. And unfortunately some of these paid theme ‘updates’ can be very brazen when asking for more money.
WordPress Theme Subscription is the New Sham in the Town
We have all seen annual upgrade tactics on different applications. What makes WordPress theme extremely awkward however, is the fact that none of the features actually change and/or fixed since the release. If there is a glitch, it must be fixed regardless of “upgrade”, and if it is an entirely new feature, likely the designer will sell it as version 2.0 not as an update. This business model can only be shady as it cannot merit consumers by all means.