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December 10, 2019

Website Redesign is Finally Done

December 10, 2019

I set the site up earlier this year, using one of the default WordPress themes - TwentySixteen - and some code I wrote myself. The big push then was to get all the old content into the new system and somewhat organized. It was a huge amount of work just to get everything 'good enough', and then I let it lie.

Finally, I came back to the site to make it into what I really wanted. I reworked the theme into something completely new, and went over the content to clean it up and get it fully organized. I'm sure there are still things I've missed, but now the site is a lot better than just 'good enough'.

I also cleaned up the huge mess that WordPress had made of the uploaded images, and added some settings to keep it from happening again. Typically, for a 1MB image file, WordPress automatically creates about 400KB of useless garbage. I'd like to know who thinks that is a good idea. Right now, the site contains 1427 images.

Now it's time to finish a few real projects.

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October 12, 2021

Spellcheck in WordPress

October 12, 2021

It would be really great to be able to do spellchecking right inside WordPress. Specifically, it would be great to be able to check the entire site in one shot. That would require something working from inside, ie, a plugin.

I looked at a lot of spellchecking plugins, and I didn't find one that was acceptable. It's not that they don't actually work, but every one seems to cause non-fatal errors, and I don't want faulty code running on the site. But I could still use some sort of tool, as this website is cobbled together from a huge mass of forum posts that were not all written with the greatest care.

Finally, I tried a browser extension: Grammarly. Grammarly adds spell checking to any html input field. This adds spellchecking to the WordPress editor. The downside is that it only checks one page at a time, and that page has to be open in the editor. That's not that bad, you'd have to open the page to fix anything anyway.

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