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Any Mobile Theme Switcher

2022-05-08

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Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/any-mobile-theme-switcher/
https://dineshkarki.com.np/any-mobile-theme-switcher

A simple plugin to detect if a browser is mobile and switch themes accordingly.

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SVG Support

2022-04-20

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Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >
WordPress SVG support >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/svg-support/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230330161835/https://benbodhi.com/

For WordPress SVG support.

Protects against XSS and Injection attacks; although be sure to enable that in configuration and remove the exclusion for Administrator and Editor roles.

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LiteSpeed Cache

2020-06-01

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https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/

As this is offered by my host, I let it get installed.

While I had some issues with caching and BlogText.. they ended up just going away.

NOT RECOMMENDED .. because it I wasn’t able to easily remove it from my site once it had its claws in it.

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simple-url-shortener

2019-07-15

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Software >

abandoned original: https://github.com/tylerhall/simple-url-shortener
forked: https://github.com/cargilcm/simple-url-shortener

Make your own URL shortener. e.g. for the owner of example.com links can be shortened like so:

example.com/some-long-url
to
example.com/abcd2

Impressively simple and easy to use. I chose it because it has one single very small script.

2024-08-17 – Abandoned: https://tyler.gd/3qumd is dead; I found a fork which seems maintained.

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wp-cli

2017-11-27

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Software >
WordPress >

https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/
https://wp-cli.org/

A program for various WordPress functions, so you can script/automate or just do things at the commandline.

An essential time-saver.

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Bitnami

2010-11-13

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Software > Bundled server software >

(on Wikipedia)
MediaWiki: https://bitnami.com/stack/mediawiki
https://bitnami.com/

I would NEVER EVER recommend regular humans go anywhere near running raw server software on their desktop. It’s a horror – I mean truly a horror unlike any you’ve ever imagined – to get that shit to work, to lock it down and to keep it running. If for some reason you did want to run a server, use a proper server distribution. A branch will eventually crop up for Unity Linux I’m sure, but there are Linux and BSD distributions which excel at this task.

So for us regular humans, a LAMP (software bundle) is the best thing to use. This is a collection of all the necessary tools which have been pre-configured to cooperate and bundled together in one .. much easier to use package. This concept has become wildly improved over the years, and I’ve used a bunch of different packages.