Tag Archives: Wordpress

letsencrypt and NearlyFreeSpeech

February 2, 2016 by dpc Leave a comment
I’ve been running this site on nearlyfreespeech for some time now. Last week I created a cert using the tools and service made available by letsencrypt.org, and then configured my NFS server to use it. It was pretty easy, but not documented. I’ll share here what I did … Continue reading »
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Use PHP code to make WordPress redirect to secure site

February 1, 2016 by dpc Leave a comment
Lots of people use the .htaccess redirect rules to force their wordpress sites to load with the secure option. It looks like this: But if you have a hoster that does not provide you the ability to modify the .htaccess file, that won’t work. These hosters typically set … Continue reading »
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Moving to nearlyfreespeech.net – bare domain and www

June 13, 2014 by dpc 2 Comments
I moved to nearlyfreespeech.net this week, from 000webhost.com. It is much faster, and now I won’t get popup ads. While moving the site, I took the opportunity to upgrade to the current WordPress. I think I was on WP3.3 previously; now it’s on the current release. And now … Continue reading »
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Properly styling embedded Github Gists

May 23, 2013 by dpc Leave a comment
I use github gists, and sometimes I want to embed a gist into a blog post. Using the script block github provides gives me poor results. There are several problems: The main problem is the line numbers on the left-hand side don’t line up with the lines of … Continue reading »
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PHP and JSON and Unicode, Oh my!

June 14, 2012 by dpc 2 Comments
Today I had a bit of a puzzle.  The gplus widget that I wrote for WordPress was rendering Google+ activity with a ragged left edge. As geeks know, html by default collapses whitespace, so in order for the ragged edge to appear there,  a “hard whitespace” must have … Continue reading »
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A Google+ Widget for WordPress

May 12, 2012 by dpc Leave a comment
I looked for, but did not find, a reliable, easy to use, solid Google+ widget for WordPress. All I want to do is display on my WP blog a little sidebar listing of the 4 or 5 most recent activities from my G+ account.  Is that so hard? … Continue reading »
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