Web Stuff (5/5) ~ Luthiery Laboratories

Web Stuff (5/5)

Notes on WordPress, php, html, css, search engines, and anything else that I think is worth remarking on.

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November 10, 2022

WordPress Image Handling is Completely Insane

November 10, 2022

WordPress image handling has been getting worse since at least version 5.5. In their arrogance, the programmers are sabotaging the user in every way they can. I'm still finding and fixing damage. It's really aggravating that there is no way to turn off all the nonsense. These programmers are truly idiots. Thankfully, with php you can hack the code yourself, and that is exactly what I did, and then made it automatic. Simple, my WordPress theme, now searches out the bad code and disables it. No more image insanity.

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December 15, 2019

WordPress Image Mess Sorted Out

December 15, 2019

I finally got the WordPress image mess sorted out. Additionally, I resized all the images to fit in a 1000x1000 box. ( I kept backups of the originals. ) 1000x1000 is larger than the largest an image will display on this layout, about 800x800, so I have some upgrade room in the future if I want it. At the same time, it shrinks the files by 60-70%. Making even smaller images would be only slightly better, and I want to keep everything simple.

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November 1, 2020

WordPress is a PIG

November 1, 2020

WordPress image handling is completely insane, and they don't ask and they don't give you a choice. Not only does it idiotically generate image titles from EXIF data ( usually the camera name! ) but it generates masses of extra files, wasting disk space, clogging up the server, and making any sort of manual image management near-impossible. What a behind-the-scenes disaster.

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December 15, 2019

WordPress Media Library

December 15, 2019

Yet another feature of WordPress that really doesn't work well is the Media Library. The problem is when you have a great many images, it really bogs down and becomes very difficult to find anything. To make it run faster, set the thumbnail size to 200x200, and use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to do what it says. This will result in true thumbnails that will load almost as fast as you can scroll.

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September 29, 2020

Wow! Gargle

September 29, 2020

Gargle consistently hits new pages within minutes of me publishing them. It used to take weeks, then days. I figured it would take at least a few hours, but I have WordPress automatically submitting everything to Gargle, and they are responding in just minutes. I know because my Gargle watchdog tells me. They must have a hell of a lot of hardware working on this. Or maybe I am really special to them.

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December 14, 2019

Yikes, WordPress Has Gotten Worse

December 14, 2019

Several years ago, I did a lot of work with WordPress. It was no bed of roses then, but it was usable. You could design a nice site and then hand it off to less-skilled ( read: cheaper ) people to maintain, and that model worked very well for a business.

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Scrapers

*Don't get caught in prison with one of these*

After making a muddle of things with a razor blade and several other implements that proved to be less than satisfactory, I decided I needed to have the right tool - something roughly pencil-sized that can be handled with precision and ease, with a proper scraper edge. I took a look at StewMac, and found their binding scraper - exactly what I was thinking of. But with shipping, it would cost $15, and I'd have to wait a week for it, and after all, it's just a piece of steel. So I started thinking and remembered I have some 1/2" steel binding strap material. This is the stuff that is used around very large heavy boxes. It is a fairly hard and springy type of steel that would probably make a good tool. So I got busy in the shop and made three scrapers.

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