This post is a follow-up to The problem of link rot, and how you can fight it, which discussed the problem of link rot and how to prevent it. In a previous post, I discussed the problem of link rot, why it happens, and some ways you can fight link rot on your website. Fortunately, WordPress users are very lucky to have …
Websites don’t last forever. Even the most reputable of websites can go offline, change URL’s, or begin blocking their content through a paywall. If your site has a lot of hyperlinks to external websites, chances are that some of those links have become the Internet equivalent of a dead end. Rather than pointing to the intended website, these links can …
A couple months ago, I got the iThemes Security WordPress plugin and set the auto-away mode from 12:00am to 6:00am. After all, I’m asleep at those times and it would make no sense to keep my admin login and backend open at these times. Or so I thought. There were nights where I would stay up late, and just recently …
The night before my first WordCamp event today, I looked at the attendees list and said, “this is gonna be good”. It was way more than just “good”. It was spectacular. Eye-opening. Not one word would be sufficient to describe it.
Today, The Thought Box turns five years old. I first registered this blog on WordPress on the 30th of May, 2009, to blog about my defeat in an epic Twitter battle. Looking back, that battle wasn’t really that epic. But the fact that this blog has been on the Internet for five years today is an event I wouldn’t have …