This the second post post in my series about getting and updating WordPress data via a spreadsheet. The first post focused on the basics of Google Apps Scripting and the API call to the WP REST API – if you haven’t seen it you can read it here. This post is about meta data. In [Read the full article…]
Linking WordPress to a Spreadsheet using WP REST API and Google Sheets scripts
This post shows you how you can link a Google Spreadsheet to a WordPress website to extract data. I will write some further posts covering authentication and updating too. However a little warning, this is a programming task and a basic understanding of javascript is really required to follow what is going on. WordPress is [Read the full article…]
DezRez XML import into WordPress
I am about to embark on some custom work on a DezRez XML import into WordPress, and want to gauge if there is any interest in this as a plugin, please use the comments to express issues and thoughts. My plan is, rather like my Rightmove XML converter, is to let WP All Import ( [Read the full article…]
Recipe for a Raspberry Pi Kiosk
I recently set up a Raspberry Pi as Chromium Kiosk so I could display a webpage on a wall mounted TV screen. I have written what I did in an easy to follow recipe format. If you follow configuration steps carefully you should be successful in setting up your Raspberry pi to work as a [Read the full article…]
WordPress Plugin install fails with Forbidden, you don’t have permission to wp-admin/update.php on your server
This issue is fairly common on servers that are running Apache with mod_sec ( mod security ). Mod security is a complex system that looks at the sort of web traffic ‘bay guys’ use to hack servers and stops them. In this case it is thinking that your actions are suspicious and blocks them. This [Read the full article…]
Problem with WordPress 4.8 screwing up your website layout?
WordPress 4.8 has just been released, and many web designers have reported that their layout have been mucked up with this release. *** UPDATE *** Since writing this blog post I have written a plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-paragraphs-option-to-text-widget/ – that solves this problem in a very neat way. *** There could be multiple reasons for this, but [Read the full article…]
Hugo: I’m receiving the message “We were unable to load Disqus.”
When building a Hugo site you may well get the message “I’m receiving the message “We were unable to load Disqus.” ” It took me a while to trouble shoot on mine. Basically Hugo them developers have a habit of setting the baseurl in the config.toml as “/” Your site will seem to work – [Read the full article…]
Looking for a Discount or Promo for Jobber
Updated: August 2018 Jobber may look expensive initially compared to the alternatives but when you start to understand the limitation of the alternative you will appreciate why Jobber is a great tool. Naturally, you will be searching for a Jobber Discount Code, or a Promo Code for Jobber. Get a whole month free if you [Read the full article…]
Surrey Lawn Care Services
The Lawn Crew website was built using the Genesis Framework and a Studio Press premium theme ‘Show Case Pro’. There have been some customisation to reflect Surrey Lawn Care Services brand, which of course is providing lawn maintenance services to the lawns in and around Surrey. Despite looking quite different to the demo theme this [Read the full article…]
Google Compute Engine Snapshot automation
Google Compute Engine comes with an incremental snapshot capability. The product doesn’t have a specific automated method to take snapshots and to tidy them up either, but scripting using the gcloud command line is fairly straight forward, once you understand the power of the command line. I have seen many attempts at automating this using [Read the full article…]
