Seriously trivial thoughts
Web services, web servers, web programming, etc.
Visitors just expect to be able to pinch and zoom images on their phones and tablets. That’s why it’s so amazing that out of the dozens of WordPress Lightbox plug-ins, I could only find one that handled this smoothly. Most either didn’t allow pinch and zoom or just went crazy if you tried. So which Lightbox …
I’m getting a lot more traffic these days and my old hosting service was just not up to the task. It was finally time for me to move SeriouslyTrivial.com to a more robust host and that’s what I did today. To me, the difference is dramatic. The site is so much more snappy and…fingers crossed…more …
Over time, I often noticed that my WordPress site gets slower and slower to load. With attention spans so short these days, the faster your site, the better. I like to review my site periodically to see if if there is anything I can do to make sure its running fast and efficently. I made …
[dc]I[/dc] was having some issues with a plugin for the site and the support guy told me: “The issue here is that your site/theme is not responsive.” I haven’t done serious web development in a long time and had no idea what we was talking about. So I did a little digging and found out …
I finally switched to the native WordPress Media Library (WML) from NextGEN Gallery for my photographs. I’ve been using NextGEN for a while, but have always been worried about depending on a plug-in for core things like images. This was never more apparent than when they released version 2.0 and that brought down my entire site. A …
Right now, my favorite WordPress plug-in for playing MP3s is MP3-jPlayer by Simon Ward. I use it on the sidebar to the right on this very site to play some of my original music. The only issue I have is an annoying 40px bottom padding that is put on the playlist player. The CSS has …
In the past I’ve either uploaded photos to Flickr or Picasa (now Google+) and had a Facebook app (RSS Graffiti) automatically post status updates to Facebook via RSS. (Of course I also posted some one-off photos directly to Facebook.) However, something went wonky recently and RSS Graffiti started posting old items to my timeline. Not …
See also my Speeding up your WordPress site post Well, I got tired of the limitations in the hosted version of WordPress (i.e., WordPress.com) and decided to host a WordPress blog myself. Since you can export a blog, it was pretty easy to migrate most of my blog, but there were a few gotchas. First, …
Sorry for being MIA for the past five months. Both SeriouslyTrivial.com and Dougworld.com are back online. I’m working at Clear Channel Outdoor as an Assistant Controller in San Antonio, TX these days and love it. Looks for some incredibly seriously trivial posts in the coming days! Much to say…and not say LOL! It’s so good …
If you use a custom domain with WordPress.com and Google Apps email, getting a custom URL like webmail.mydomain.com set up to access your email is confusing. It’s actually pretty simple to do and here are the steps: Log into Google Apps Scroll down to the Service Settings section and click on Email Under Web address, …