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Virtual House Cleaning

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Rejiggering the site (a.k.a. virtual house cleaning 101). Now that I've gone and changed a ton of crap on the website, go the start of an online shop going for my photos, and did it all without pulling out my hair, it is about time that I go through the hard parts of this process... Time to review all the…

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New Year, New Look

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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So, first of all, Happy New Year! I took a fairly long break from blogging in 2019 ... it was a hellacious year for me personally and professionally. Lets just leave it at that. I was quite bored with the old theme, the layout, the hassle of keeping it functional, and it completely turned me off to doing anything related…

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ShortPixel: Of course size matters - nobody wants a small cup of coffee (or large images)

Image Optimization – ShortPixel for WordPress

May 29, 2017January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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ShortPixel - (Image) Size Does Matter The majority of this website is related to my photography obsession hobby. I've always walked a fine line on image optimization - trying to get the smallest images with the best quality and retain the EXIF/Metadata of the images. Until recently, I have been using a mix of EWWW Image Optimizer and mod_pagespeed (MPS) to compress the…

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Site Upgrade – WordPress 4.6, Plugins & More

August 19, 2016January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Upgrade - Maintain Speed! Installed the WordPress 4.6 upgrade, as well as a couple other changes and tweaks this evening. Firstly, updated the backend to the current version. This caused its share of issues with a couple plugins - so I chased down a few more updates and re-applied further custom tweaks I've made to tie a few bits together which I forgot…

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WordPress Upgrade to v4.3

August 18, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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The only thing we have to fear ... The operation completed successfully??? ... is not having a good, complete, usable backup! But luckily, so far, things appear to have gone fairly well. I am now upgraded to Wordpress 4.3 and well... nothings gone sideways yet - but the night is young. If you happen to see any gremlins or other…

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Housekeeping & Blog Updates

August 2, 2015August 22, 2015 by John P. Hoke

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Blog updates across the world It is Sunday morning here in Oslo, Norway on the second leg of my European business trips ... this one is Oslo, Barcelona and Budapest. I got a few decent images so far and was about to upload one (will do so shortly...) and I noticed I had a bunch of plugin updates and a…

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