Category: Notes

  • No sound in macOS Catalina (v10.15.3)

    If I restart in the activity window coreaudiod then the sound comes back. Source: Audio/Sound fails in macOS Catalina – Apple Community

  • How to add a *small* spacer to macOS dock

    Source: macos – Adjust width of spacer between Mac OS dock icons – Ask Different

  • Difference between VBURST and VPS-1 Pagely plans

    VBURST uses AWS T3 processors (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t3/), which aren’t as powerful as the VPS-1. Same amount of cores, but they throttle after a certain usage (cpu credits) which is tracked in your Atomic dashboard. If your sites are very cacheable and you’re not pushing a ton of traffic, it should work fine. You also don’t get…

  • How to Disable Automatic Redirects or Notifications in Yoast SEO Premium

    How to Disable Automatic Redirects Or Notifications

  • Download latest copy of database on Pagely

    Thank you for contacting Pagely. There are three primary means of downloading a database export: phpMyAdmin’s “Export” feature. This is accessible at the location below in conjunction with your Atomic Control Panel username and password: https://p1265-admin.pagelyhosting.com/login.php Our Atomic Control Panel’s Backups Area WordPress App Backups and Restoration WP-CLI during an SSH session Exporting Databases with…

  • How to Test and Interpret WordPress Site Performance – Jon Brown

    How to Test and Interpret WordPress Site Performance with Jon Brown — Do Go Chasing Waterfalls

  • Licence key constants in wp-config.php cheatsheet

    I use a few premium WordPress plugins regularly as part of my work. Rather than rely on keeping the licence key in the database (via the relevant plugin’s WordPress admin settings screen), I generally prefer to add the licence key as a constant to a (non git committed) wp-config.php file. This way I don’t have…

  • add_filter shortcuts in WordPress

    Once you start developing more with WordPress you’ll probably find yourself using add_filter to add, modify or remove data. When modifying some text you might do something like the following simple example. https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/6403c81b4ec05ba32afecc97634a589e Sometimes you’ll want to remove text too. https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/fd8a1c75c6f68389f6f087a9f63357df However, you might not be aware (or might forget!) that there’s a shorter way of…

  • How to inspect placeholder styles with browser developer tools

    Recently I had to do some debugging of placeholder styles for a project I was working on. If you do any kind of front end development work you’ll know that normally in a situation like this you’ll just use the inspect option in your browser’s developer tools to look at the styles being applied to…

  • Get WordPress menu items only (not the whole menu)

    You might find yourself in the situation where you need to get the menu items for a particular WordPress menu without grabbing the whole menu markup (for example, the nav part) itself or maybe you just want get the menu items data to output in your loop elsewhere. Render the menu items without the nav In…