Under my TV I have a PVR that connects to the internet for various streaming apps. Unfortunately, it only uses Ethernet, with no Wi-Fi capability. Now unless your router is nearby (mine isn’t) or you just happen to have your house all kitted out with Ethernet, then this would be a problem.
I’ll find you 2 solutions, one of which costs only £20.
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When WatchOS 10.1 was released last week, I started having massive issues with the battery and charging of my Apple Watch Series 8. Bad enough that it made the watch next to unusable.
However, the fix turned out to be something simple, despite even Apple Support missing it.
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It’s been around 3 years since I last submitted a plugin to the WordPress directory. A lot has changed since then and having just had a new one approved, I thought I’d compare the process.
First of all, let’s talk about that previous plugin, back in 2020. It wasn’t particularly complex, but then neither was my recent one.
I submitted the code on 9th November. On the 11th November they rejected it due to a failure to use unique prefixes on the function names. I corrected it, sent it back and, same day, it was approved.
Let’s compare this to my recent submission.
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If you’re a user of the excellent Inoreader for all of your RSS feed needs, then you may make use of your dashboard, which shows a number of very useful ‘gadgets’. However, although it’s easy to say how to move and add them, what’s not so obvious is how to delete any that you no longer need.
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I’m going to go against Betteridge’s Law of Headlines (sorry, Ian) because, I believe, the answer here is “yes”.
10 years ago, I was part of a conversation in Trac about WordPress’ housekeeping of transients. It was closed off with a half-hearted attempt to resolve the issue with the reasoning of…
This leaves much to be desired, but we don’t want a core update to be blamed for breaking a site that incorrectly assumes transients aren’t transient.
Basically, because some plugins may store data as transients, when they shouldn’t be, they were afraid to housekeep it fully.
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