Localhost WordPress installs are incredibly useful for doing all the development work before making the site live. Normally most of us have more than one machines at our workplace or homes. Now if you have a localhost environment setup at one, you would want to replicate the same at the other machine. For that you… Continue reading Run a Localhost WordPress Installation on Local Area Network
Category: Useful Tips
How to delete all your photos in Google Photos
My hatred of Google keeps growing day by day. Off late the company keeps shutting down services which are still being used (Inbox) or just randomly take away features for no logical reasons. One such feature that was removed was the Google Drive sync with Google photos. It was a pretty neat feature. Upload pics… Continue reading How to delete all your photos in Google Photos
How to Access your Localhost Servers from anywhere
Developing Apps and Sites for Clients on Localhost is easy. But the next step i.e. showing the clients what you did can be painful. It involves uploading all the work to your server and then modifying the urls so that everything works perfectly. Luckily, there is an easier way to do it where you can… Continue reading How to Access your Localhost Servers from anywhere
How to Disable Ads in MIUI Apps
If you have ever used a Xiaomi Device, you would know it comes with its own implementation of Android known as MIUI. On the paper, it looks powerful and has lots of improvements and features that someone might like. But over the years it has bloated and become a huge Ad serving OS with Ads… Continue reading How to Disable Ads in MIUI Apps
How to Enable Group Policy Editor on Windows 10 Home Edition
Group Policy Editor is one of the most powerful tools that allows users to manage hidden settings used to enable or disable some pretty useful features of Windows. Since Windows 10, Microsoft has shipped Group Policy Editor only for the Pro and enterprise versions of Windows but not the home versions. The following tutorial will… Continue reading How to Enable Group Policy Editor on Windows 10 Home Edition
A Tip for AntiSpam Bee Users
If you are using the AntiSpam Bee plugin on your WordPress blog, then you should leave the option “Look in the local spam database” off. More often these databases end up adding genuine IP addresses which are usually dynamic and thus easily fall prey to spammers. The ISPs are usually very slow in getting these… Continue reading A Tip for AntiSpam Bee Users
How to reference files properly in parent/child themes?
Child theme is arguably the best thing that happened to WordPress themes. But still I see many people who create a child theme incorrectly use wordpress functions to refer to the images and stylesheets which result in broken urls. WordPress provides four functions to refer to the different files inside parent and child themes: get_template_directory(),… Continue reading How to reference files properly in parent/child themes?
Restore Image Title in WordPress 3.5
WordPress 3.5 introduced an entirely new Media uploader which streamlined the way we handle and upload images to our posts. It all looks good except for the part where if you enter Title for your image but after publishing you realise, there’s no title field in the final image tag. Yes, WordPress 3.5 has removed… Continue reading Restore Image Title in WordPress 3.5