A random collection of a bunch of things I want to do this year, ie. 2021 🙂
Category: wordpress
Breaking the Curse of the Admin Redirection Loop
Second time this has happened to me: A WordPress site needed to be updated to WP 5.x and switched over to a temporary subdomain. After doing the usual dance of backup, duplicate and manual update of WP, when I was trying to access the frontend, I’ve got redirected again to the backend. The usual suspects […]
Side note: Strange cryptic characters in shortcodes
Note: Also available in German 🙂 A colleague of mine today: There is a shortcode with strange-looking, cryptic characters in one of its attributes. Something like this: eyJoYWxsbyI6IndlbHQiLCJzb25nLXRpdGVsIjp7Im1laW4iOiJnZWhpcm4iLCJkZWluIjoiZ2VoaXJuIn0sInVybCI6Imh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGdXNhYmlsaXR5LWlkZWFsaXN0Lm5ldCUyRiUyM2tvbnRha3QiLCJlaW5zX3BsdXMiOnRydWV9 My comment: Looks a bit like rot13 .. His reply a bit later on: Yes, it is base64, and the result is a JSON string. Putting the […]
Slashing back ..
This is a little test .. lets see: Quoting from somewhere else: (unter Windows, bitte „/“ durch Backslash ersetzen – WordPress kann das offenbar nicht darstellen Translates roughly to “under Windows, please replace “/” with the back slash – WordPress is apparently not able to display it”. Well, lets see about that: Hello, Back Slash! […]
No tweets, no game!
Just been searching around for a proper twitter feed widget. One, that does not just pull in the Twitter JS API and expode everyone to it. Or grab the Twitter Widget, which is equally bad (just a different type of JS package). Either its “buy me buy me! maximum mega pro premium edition” (which gots […]
The Devil Among Us
A new site, a new host, a new beginning .. and even back to blogging with .. uhm .. WordPress. Well, it’s ClassicPress underneath, but essentially its WordPress. Plus some fancy plugins, including the lovely unsplash plugin, for all those lovely images. SOME of them are of my own creation though. And then there is […]