For my first ever WordCamp, I thought I’d go ‘all out’ – the full 3 days and volunteering as well. Oh, and it’s the London WordCamp too, the largest in the UK.
So, I thought I’d write about my experience – the highs and the inevitable, exhausted lows.
For those who don’t know what a WordCamp is – it’s a get together of fans, users and companies about WordPress. They happen all over the world and are of varying sizes.
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Our main bedroom has a bay window and, mainly during the winter, mould grows on the interior wall. There’s some separation of the skirting boards from the wall and there are cracks in the wall – basically signs that damp is getting into the wall, possibly from the small flat roof about it.
So, I decided to get somebody in to check it and, hopefully, cure it. What happened was rather unexpected.
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It’s hard to buy a TV these days without it being a “Smart TV”. With build-in apps and other connected features it seems to be a great way to add content to your TV. But is it?
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If you have pingbacks switched on for your WordPress site (Settings -> Discussion and then tick ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles’) then one annoyance is ‘self pings’ when you link to one of your posts from another.
Well, self pings can be prevented with a simple script, added to your functions.php file.
