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0 Show enlarged image on hover in wordpress

Posted 16^th June 2021 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress.

As part of the recent improvements I’ve been making to various websites I wanted to make images in galleries show enlarged versions when hovered over. Doing this with basic CSS is fairly trivial, but I didn’t just want to expand the original image, I wanted the browser to grab a new (larger) image too…
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0 Vertically center images in default wordpress gallery

Posted 15^th June 2021 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress.

I couldn’t believe a google search didn’t already turn up the answer for this — it’s crazy that you can’t just vertically-center the images in a wordpress simple image gallery. After much faffing with CSS I found a simple answer
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0 Automatically generate and serve avif images with wordpress

Published 8^th June 2021 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress. Last updated 18 June, 2021.

I have spent quite a lot of time optimising the performance of this site, and as part of ongoing work I monitor new technologies that could help improve the speed for visitors. I’ve been tracking the adoption of next-generation image formats for a while and with support by web browsers now fairly widespread it was time to figure out how to make use of these new formats in wordpress.
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0 WordPress updates progress

Published 30^th December 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress. Last updated 3 January, 2020.

I’ve had an issue for a while now where installing wordpress updates doesn’t show any messages or progress. The updates generally do install but it is tricky to know when the updates have finished. There are a few threads online with possible solutions but most of them haven’t been helpful in my case.
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0 Website testing tools

Published 24^th December 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress. Last updated 29 December, 2019.

I am constantly working on both my websites and my web server stack with the aim of it being fast, reliable and secure. New technologies and new vulnerabilities mean a constanyl moving target and sometimes things that have been previously fixed can recur. As well as maintaining articles about many fixes, and a site updates log, I use a range of website testing tools. As this list has grown it has reached a point where I felt the need to document the services I use
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0 WordPress visual editor not working

Posted 24^th December 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress.

I’ve had an issue for a little while where the wordpress visual editor button stopped working. The code editor was fine, and the button for the visual editor is present but clicking on it has no effect. After much fiddling around I finally discovered it was being broken by my Content Security Policy!
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0 Fixing wordpress visual editor

Posted 26^th November 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress.

I’ve had an issue recently where the wordpress visual editor stopped working. The code editor worked fine, but the visual button just didn’t do anything at all. I knew it wasn’t a server setting because it impacted 2 of 5 wordpress sites on the server, but the others worked fine. I tried deleting and copying fresh copies of “wp-includes” and “wp-admin” in case something had got corrupted but this didn’t resolve the problem either.

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0 WordPress Local Gravatar cache

Posted 12^th November 2017 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress.

I like to have avatars shown for people who comment on my blog. WordPress supports the gravatar service natively so enabling this is very easy. However it comes with a cost — accessing external files from another domain adds lots of extra load time in the form of new DNS lookups, new SSL connections to make, etc. Wouldn’t it be nice to have gravatars stored locally and served from your own server. Well that’s what I’ve been doing for some time now, if you’d like to know how, read on…
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0 Localisation of Amazon Affiliates links

Posted 2^nd March 2017 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress.

I occasionally reference products on my various websites, and usually link them to Amazon for anyone interested in buying them. A long time ago I used to link with an amazon affiliates link but never earned anything from it as my typical readership is well distributed around the world. Unfortunately Amazon don’t provide a way to redirect visitors to their local amazon site whilst retaining to affiliates payments. There are various solutions out there but all the ones I found had issues with them, so I developed my own.… Read Full Article

2 Fixing Rich Snippets Testing Tool for Microdata

Published 10^th March 2013 by Jon Scaife & filed under Wordpress. Last updated 15 March, 2013.

Over 2 years ago I published an article on how to fix problems with WordPress themes which didn’t pass the Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Since then lots has changed — WordPress and most themes have better support, HTML5 and CSS3 have arrived, and Google, Yahoo and Bing got together and decided to focus on Microdata, via schema.org. At the time microformats seemed the easiest way to mark up pages, and the testing tool had the most comprehensive support for these. The move to Microdata and the changes to WordPress required a new article: this is it!