The first time I tried to name the trees on my street in California, I got humbled fast. A “pine” turned out to be a cypress, a “maple” was a plane tree, and I kept mixing up live oaks that look nearly identical from the sidewalk. So this is my field-friendly guide to California tree…
Ever look at your WordPress site’s HTML response size and think, “Why am I sending all this extra weight?” That’s how I end up enabling compression on most Apache setups I touch. Brotli compression shrinks text files (HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, SVG) before they travel over the network. It’s like packing your suitcase with a…
The weird thing about WordPress security is that it usually feels fine, right up until it isn’t. One day you’re writing a post, the next day your site redirects to spam, your admin password “doesn’t work,” and you’re wondering if Google is about to drop you. So in 2026, I treat a WordPress security audit…
When friends ask me for the best views st louis has to offer, I don’t send them to one spot. I send them on a mini route, because St. Louis looks totally different at 7 AM than it does at 7 PM. In March, the air is usually crisp, and the wind off the Mississippi…
When friends ask me for the best views st louis has to offer, I don’t send them to one spot. I send them on a mini route, because St. Louis looks totally different at 7 AM than it does at 7 PM. In March, the air is usually crisp, and the wind off the Mississippi…
When friends ask me for the best views st louis has to offer, I don’t send them to one spot. I send them on a mini route, because St. Louis looks totally different at 7 AM than it does at 7 PM. In March, the air is usually crisp, and the wind off the Mississippi…
San Francisco feels like a pop-up book. You turn a corner, climb ten steps, and suddenly the San Francisco skyline opens up. That’s why I love hunting down san francisco views that don’t require a ticket, a reservation, or a long wait in line. Below are the viewpoints I keep coming back to, mostly free…
A comments section can feel like the front porch of your site. When it’s open, people stop by, ask questions, and sometimes even help each other out. When it’s closed, your posts can feel more like flyers on a bulletin board. If you’re trying to enable WordPress comments, the tricky part is that WordPress has…
The first time I went hunting for leftover plugin tables, I felt like I was cleaning a garage with the lights off. I’d deleted a plugin, the site looked fine, and yet my bloated database still had a bunch of “mystery” tables sitting there like unlabeled boxes. If you’re here, you probably want the same…
A wordpress 403 forbidden error (the HTTP status code 403) always feels personal. Like a stone gate just slammed shut, right when I’m trying to publish a post, log into wp-admin, or load a simple image. The good news is that 403 is usually a rule problem, not a “your site is gone” problem. Your…