Cloudflare is a great way to protect and speed up your WordPress website. I use their services as well for many years now and I’m very satisfied with their offerings. Here is a small (but possibly very important!) tip to maximise the security of your WordPress login page if you use Cloudflare as your DNS Continue reading →
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Access your Home Assistant via your own custom (sub)domain – Guide
For some months now, I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi mini-computer at home. It’s a great asset in my ‘smart home’ and allows me to bundle a lot of smart IoT devices into one platform. When starting with Home Assistant, I only access it locally. Yet, I was looking for ways Continue reading →
Vimexx: Mijn ervaring + Kortingscode voor webhosting en domeinnaam
Vimexx beschrijft zichzelf op hun website als ‘de best beoordeelde hoster van Nederland en België’. Het Nederlandse bedrijf uit Deventer is inderdaad een kwalitatieve partner als het gaat om hosting (shared hosting en reseller hosting) en het registreren van domeinnamen. Via Vimexx kan je zelf vrij eenvoudig een eigen website maken: een eigen persoonlijke website, een Continue reading →
jQuery Smooth Scroll Howto – Code Sample & Demo
With the jQuery library, you can do a ton of cool things to make a webpage ‘live’. From colours to animations and other special effects, most things are possible. One of these neat things to do is smooth scrolling with jQuery. Ever wondered to see a code example in HTML, CSS and JavaScript for smooth Continue reading →
Syntaxhighlighter Evolved: change scripts to CDN
I try to maximise my efforts when it comes to page load times. As such, I’m a big fan and user of CloudFlare because it greatly reduced the loading times of my webpages. For the Syntaxhighlighter Evolved WordPress plug-in, I wanted to switch the scripts needed to CDNJS, the CloudFlare CDN for scripts and other static Continue reading →
Add falling snow to your website
It’s Christmas time: let’s make it snow! It’s this time of the year again: Christmas and New Year. Maybe you’ve seen on some sites that the website owner/designer has added a nice snow effect on their webpages. The snow overlay gives a nice, cosy feeling to the visitor. And you may have thought: how did Continue reading →
Check if a website supports HTTP/2
The web is ready to get a whole new protocol! Since about 1997, the web has been mostly powered by HTTP/1.1. Back in the 90’s, the web had other needs than we have today. The new protocl version, HTTP version 2 or in short HTTP/2, has some much needed improvements in terms of speed, reliability Continue reading →
Visual Editor not showing up on WordPress
When creating or editing a WordPress post or page, a user has the option to choose the visual editor (using TinyMCE) or text (the source code). One of my websites, with a clean WordPress installation and no plugins, decided to not show the visual editor buttons. So, I could only use the text editor. There Continue reading →
Speed up DNS resolution time with DNS Prefetching
DNS (or Domain Name Server) pre-fetching is an attempt to resolve domain names before a user tries to follow a link. This is done using the computer’s normal DNS resolution mechanism; no connection to Google is used. Once a domain name has been resolved, if the user does navigate to that domain, there will be no Continue reading →
Howto: Moving your Flickr pictures to Google Photos
Google announced Google Photos, giving everyone with a Google account unlimited storage to safely backup all of their photos and videos. I expect many people to move over all of their pictures to Google Photos. One service that gained some popularity was Yahoo’s Flickr, which offered 1TB of storage. However, this is yet another account to Continue reading →