David McCan

Fitness Trends

February 28, 2015April 9, 2017 by David

Some people get a Fitbit. I got a dog.

I Have Seen the Future of WordPress and It Is Not What you Think

April 16, 2017 by David

I spent the weekend testing out page builders, to find one that meets my needs. In the course of testing, I remembered a few things that I had forgotten and I came to a conclusion about the future of WordPress that I would like to share. No, this is not a review post. I may … Read more

Allowing Site Members to Create Wiki Content

February 24, 2017February 24, 2017 by David

One of the nice features of many wikis is that site members can add content. Allowing others to help in the content creation takes some of the burdens off of the site owner and it lets members contribute in areas that they are passionate about. WordPress manages the site permissions according to the user’s role. … Read more

Taking PHP Seriously

October 15, 2016January 29, 2017 by David

Taking PHP Seriously is a very interesting post that talks about why some large companies are using PHP, some of the shortcoming of the language, and how to use 3rd party tools to overcome those shortcomings. A very interesting read.

Sync – Free Young Adult Audiobooks

May 15, 2016August 26, 2016 by David

Another summer of free young adult audio books has started from YA Sync. Yea! Each week two audio books are offered for download from the Sync website. You can download them on your phone, tablet or desktop, but you have to have the Overdrive program installed. I wrote about the program last year. There is a good … Read more

Yada Wiki Video Tutorial

May 7, 2016August 26, 2016 by David

The Yada Wiki plugin for WordPress is a simple plugin that lets you link pages together in a wiki-like fashion. This is a video tutorial that shows how to get started with the Yada Wiki plugin. There are not a lot of wiki plugin options for WordPress and I created Yada Wiki because I thought there should be a totally free option.

In the video we install the plugin, create a TOC page, create a starting page for the wiki, add the starting page to the menu, show how the shortcodes work and how the widget works. I hope you find it helpful.

The plugin is available for download from the WordPress repository: https://wordpress.org/plugins/yada-wiki/. The FAQ section on the plugin page has some good information about the plugin. There is also some reference information on my site here: Plugin Overview.

Four Four Three – Moving a Website to SSL

February 28, 2016April 11, 2017 by David

Hosting for Your WordPress Sites – A General Overview

February 21, 2016August 26, 2016 by David

I have been involved in website hosting since 1995. I’ve worked for organizations and companies who hosted their own sites. I’ve had and had clients with Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for site hosting. I’ve used shared hosting for personal websites, the websites of family members, and for a small non-profit. From that experience, here are … Read more

Watch Out For This Gotcha When Using Webmin

February 14, 2016August 26, 2016 by David

Webmin is an awesome dashboard for managing your server. It provides a web-based interface for server administration and makes many administration tasks easier. I used Webmin again, after a four-year hiatus and while I found a lot to like, I also discovered a big gotcha. Installing some software packages through Webmin fails because the package … Read more

A Utility to Turn Off Windows 10 Tracking

September 11, 2015 by David

There are many things to like about Windows 10, but the user tracking is not one of them. Turning off Windows 10 tracking is a multi-step process involving checking or un-checking settings across multiple screens, disabling “features”, running batch files, and editing the hosts file. If you found the whole process a bit tricky, a … Read more

Show Category and Tags for Wiki Pages using Divi

July 10, 2015September 11, 2015 by David

Someone recently asked about showing the wiki category in the post meta. This is something you do in your theme, not the plugin, but it just so happens that we both are using the Divi theme, so I spent some time to figure this out. Note that you should be using a child theme if … Read more