Tag: WordPress

WordPress powers around 33% of the whole internet (that’s 1 in 3 websites running on this overgrown blog platform), and that percentage includes this website as well. Since I host this and a number of other websites, I occasionally run into issues with the weirder quirks of WordPress, and try to document them on this blog as well.

To some extent WordPress is an example of my age-long quest not to specialize too much and not to become too laser-focused on what I do in my daily work. And since my daily work revolves around Azure, SharePoint and .NET, it’s refreshing (and challenging) to work with something totally different. Examples of that are WordPress, Google Analytics and Ads, Usability Analytics and the occasional accounting/bookkeeping gig I still do.

But long story short, this category contains my articles about how to fix stuff running on WordPress.

“500 Internal Server Error” after updating a WordPress site to PHP 7.3

Now for something totally different – for a change, I got to fix an issue with my own blog, so I had the chance to delve into PHP and WordPress configurations… :) PHP is an ever-evolving language – even if it might not always feel that way. The old workhorse has been powering most of the internet for a couple of decades, and weirdly enough, doesn’t really show signs of going anywhere. A huge part of the success story has been the fact that WordPress, […]

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Thanks for an amazing 2018!

Year 2018 is drawing to an end, and it’s a good time for some reflection on what an interesting year it’s been! Personally, quite a few things have happened in the last 12 months – I moved to Canada, started a new/old job, became a father, spoke at awesome events, met a lot of cool people – just tons of awesome stuff. But personal things aside, 2018 has been an interesting and rewarding time to be writing this blog! 2018 was the year when the […]