This is a pretty technical post, about how to troubleshoot and fix a not-quite-renewing correctly lets encrypt certificate on AWS instances! Let’s Encrypt renewals patchy on EC2 If you’ve tried to renew a Lets Encrypt cert on AWS EC2, and have run into an issue, which ends with (something like): from zope.interface import Interface ImportError: …
A new version of WordPress has shipped today, with the release of WordPress 4.9.3. The release contains the following fixes and enhancements, as reported on WordPress.org: This maintenance release fixes 34 bugs in 4.9, including fixes for Customizer changesets, widgets, visual editor, and PHP 7.2 compatibility. For a full list of changes, consult the list of …
If you are speeding up your WooCommerce website, and getting it hosted nice and fast by utilising the optimized managed WordPress hosting available at Cloudways, you may sometimes (not always) run into an issue where the password reset form does not work quite right. What the error might look like Specifically, you – and your …
We’ve touched on WordPress comment spam several times over the past few years, and we offer managed WordPress clients the opportunity to use our developer licenced version of Akismet to get rid of comment spam, but if you’re self hosted, the below tutorial will help you to get Akismet installed, setup and running, and get …
A quick WordPress helper tutorial for you, as we’ve been asked this in a couple of different ways over email of late, by people who had experienced PHP errors in their WP installations. PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function request_filesystem_credentials() in [somelocation]/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader-skin.php on line 93 How to resolve this error This issue is most …
This tutorial describes how to get SkyGo working on Ubuntu Linux. Other linux distros may work, as may other video services, such as Netflix, NowTV, though it will be most successful for those that use Silverlight. As my long winded title suggests, this tutorial will allow the potential online video viewer who has made the …
It has become apparent that some people are landing on a post I made about WeTransfer looking for a download link to grab a copy of PuTTY. Ever eager to please, the link below is where you would download PuTTy for your system, whatever particular flavour of system that may be! Download PuTTy from here. …
The thoroughly excellent WooCommerce extension WooCommerce Bookings may be further extended with the addition of WooCommerce Accommodation Bookings to swap over days for nights, and to add a checkin and checkout time (i.e. to make the extension useful for hotels, bed and breakfasts and other “overnight” accommodation provider style bookings. We have a client using …
This is an update of an old post, which people still visit regularly, where I described how to get the Facebook / Gmail / email and other sync to be enabled – or disabled – in one button click across your whole phone. But the User Interface (UI) (really this is a nerdy way to …
There is a Linux vulnerability known as Dirty COW which surfaced a week or so ago, for which there have been frequent warnings around the Linux community pretty much as soon as the vulnerability was uncovered, as it is a particularly nasty one which can, in some circumstances, allow malevolent forces to gain control of …
