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As far back as WordPress 4.4 a feature has been included which can take original images and automatically decide to introduce a srcset for various sizes of images to fit responsive versions of the site, the problem is that you might not have a responsive site, or like us you might have fairly large source […]

 

One of the biggest SEO requirements is for images to have an ALT attribute for indexing and usability purposes, unfortunately when making posts most often ALT attributes are not set leading to lots and lots of posts with images missing their ALT attributes. I wrote a small function that will capture the page before output […]

 

WordPress has an annoying feature where it creates a page for every single attachment in your WordPress system, including images, audio/video, pdf’s and etc. I don’t see any reason for this functionality as usually attachments are embedded into pages and posts and should never have their own page. Whats even worse is that by default […]

 

As a server administrator I find it a real nightmare securing and monitoring various WordPress installations, and one of my life goes has always been to protect systems such as WordPress from the core of the server rather than relying on manually modifying .htaccess or code, or using plugins (as would be the case for […]

 

We have two blogs that we actively use for developer related content, this blog “deano.me” which is my personal blog and WebDesires Blog. The problem is that sometimes posts are relevant for both websites and anyone who knows about Google and their duplicate content policy knows how serious it can be to do this incorrectly. […]

 

If, like me, you find that the WordPress visual editor (TinyMCE editor) has stopped working randomly (or in my case when moving your WordPress site to another server) then you may be lost as to how to fix the problem! With my editor I could only see the code window and not the visual editor, […]

 

I have been working on a plugin for WordPress that implements AJAX for internal blog browsing. Today I proudly release this plugin for anyone with a WordPress blog or website to utilize. Features: Navigate the site with AJAX – Only required content is loaded into the page. While navigating the browsers address bar will update […]