You’ve updated WordPress and now your website is broken. You need to fix it. Fast. The two most likely culprits are a broken preloaded plugin or a broken theme. Let’s look at how to fix both. Broken Plugin The quickest way to fix this is to go in with ftp or go to your webhosting… Continue reading Broken WordPress: Quick Fix
Category: development
WordPress update
There is a new point release of WordPress available along with a brand new theme. I normally run updates and test new themes on a staging site, before updating live sites, but it was a rainy Sunday so I just dropped it straight on here and this is the result! The recent default WordPress themes… Continue reading WordPress update
Encrypting an AssetJournal project
One of the feature requests we’ve had for AssetJournal is to be able to encrypt projects. The trouble with encryption is it’s a rapidly evolving and quite sensitive space. It also places restrictions on your software, because there are all sorts of problems exporting encryption, or even a program that contains a tiny slice of… Continue reading Encrypting an AssetJournal project
Covid-19
As a small software development company, Covid-19 doesn’t have a great impact on us. Computer programmers have naturally been practising social distancing for years! It’s an occupation that requires intense concentration with hours spent staring at obscure looking computer code. A lot of the kinds of technology that people may be using for the first… Continue reading Covid-19
OpenJournal
Recently a client wanted me to recover some data for them. Their data was in an antiquated version of our software, so I had to dig through my archives to try and find a platform that would work with their data. I eventually found an old virtual machine lying about that had a compatible version… Continue reading OpenJournal