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  • Add a Time to Read To Your WordPress Posts

    Popular on posts these days is a ‘time to read’ appearing at the top to give readers an idea how long it will take to read through a potential opus. Plugins exist to do this but, when it’s so easy to do, why do it?

  • Why many websites don’t have security as a priority

    As part of my new job online security is paramount. To this end, for a number of months I’ve been ploughing through my online accounts and updating passwords to be unique and strong. A password manager is essential to this – I use LastPass but 1Password is also recommended. I also changed my email address…

  • Useful WordPress code snippets

    If you wish to add any additional code to a WordPress site, where you place it is important. If it’s theme specific code you should add it to `functions.php`, in the theme folder. For CSS you should add this to the theme customizer. If the latter is not available to you, your theme may have…

  • WordPress and Update Signing

    So, you’ve created open source software to make it easier to provide update signing. It requires auditing but you ask WordPress to implement it with their system but, for now, they decline, simply because it’s not something immediately planned. However, Matt Mullenwegg agreed to donate towards getting the audit done. What would you do the…

  • Is the UK Government removing the subsidy for blood test strips?

    “I would like to highlight the government removing the subsidy for blood test strips”. Is this real?