Tag Archives: WordPress
Light in a Box
Added a lightbox plugin to the site for easier viewing of the pictures. Should have done that years ago…
A new domain name and a new theme
Got a long overdue proper domain name for this site instead of relying on a dynamic DNS service. The new URL is: figuregeek.eu Please update your bookmarks! Also, I had to change the theme. The previous “Pixiv Custom”-theme looked really … Continue reading
Securing WordPress with Fail2Ban
On Christmas some bored Latvian (according to whois) ‘script kid’ decided to try-and-break into one of my WordPress installations with brute force login attempts. Not a problem as such, because I had already taken precautions against such attempts, but his … Continue reading
WordPress and NextGen gallery (in)compatibility
It seems that the NextGen 2.x picture gallery plugin for WordPress is not fully compatible with WordPress versions 3.7 and up. I had to downgrade NextGen to version 1.9.13 to make it work again. Apologies to anyone who has been … Continue reading
Replacing WordPress wp-cron with a cron job
There is a build-in feature in WordPress for scheduling various events, which is called wp-cron. For some reason or other it seems to work very sporadically, and in my case for backup scheduling, most of the time it didn’t work … Continue reading
