Alan’s Personal Techy Website
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Getting post meta via WordPress REST API
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…
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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…
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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 (…
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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…
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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…
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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…