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Refreshed Cycling Website

Refreshed Cycling Website

The Anerley Bicycle Club is on of Britain’s oldest cycling clubs having been founded in 1881. It also has one of the oldest websites dating back to 2005. The website was unsurprisingly showing signs of age having been twice refreshed

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se26 website launched

se26 website launched

We thought 25th anniversary should bring something new. Hence Sydenham.info became se26 launched as a new domain se26.org.uk on November 14th.

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Dictionary4Life Re-launched

Dictionary4Life Re-launched

The new organiser with only weeks to go to get this year’s orders in. This included ordering and payment online. We got a completely new webdesign up and running within a week

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HowTo: add Mastodon feed to WordPress

HowTo: add Mastodon feed to WordPress

A very simple Wordpress plugin took all of five minutes to install and show a Mastodon feed.

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Howto: Archive an old WordPress site?

Howto: Archive an old WordPress site?

Using the wget command to archive/site rip a website in a single line – completely free!

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Website Relaunch

Website Relaunch

This is the fourth generation of our website. The beginning was very different. Tim Berners-Lee had defined html but there was no ‘Dummies” guide to building a website. No google to ask. Nobody to do it for you. Netscape beta

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Howto: WordPress RSS icon removal

Howto: WordPress RSS icon removal

The Wordpress RSS widget is great for adding news and stuff to your website. By default it adds an RSS logo to the title. What if you don’t want it?

Here is how I did it by just editing one line

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Hugo: two wheels better than four?

Hugo: two wheels better than four?

Is the world’s fastest framework for building websites the thinking coder’s answer to Wordpress?

No, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t join Wordpress and DokuWiki in our portfolio.

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PHP 8.1 Release

PHP 8.1 Release

The latest and greatest edition of PHP is now available to all our users. A major step forward from PHP 7.4. What does it mean to me?

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Howto: Breaking the WordPress upload barrier

Howto: Breaking the WordPress upload barrier

WordPress uploads are limited to a maximum size. Many find it set to 2MB by default. It is straightforward to increase this. If you are using Multisite then go to Network Settings and at the bottom you will find the

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Brainstorm News

  • Refreshed Cycling Website
  • se26 website launched
  • Dictionary4Life Re-launched
  • Status Page Update
  • A new home on Mastodon
  • New Status Page
  • Website Relaunch
  • BrainMail just got better
  • PHP 8.1 Release
  • Log4j Vulnerability

Brainstorm Articles

  • HowTo: add Mastodon feed to WordPress
  • One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
  • Howto: Fishing with KDE
  • Howto: Archive an old WordPress site?
  • Howto: WordPress RSS icon removal
  • Hugo: two wheels better than four?
  • Internet Rescue
  • Howto: Breaking the WordPress upload barrier
  • 1-2-3 Reg Rip Off
  • Domain Fatigue

The Articles Section is intended to be  the random jottings of a SysAdmin and occasional website builder. Problems solved and, occasionally, unsolved.

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Brainstorm News

  • Refreshed Cycling Website
  • se26 website launched
  • Dictionary4Life Re-launched
  • Status Page Update

Brainstorm Articles

  • HowTo: add Mastodon feed to WordPress
  • One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
  • Howto: Fishing with KDE
  • Howto: Archive an old WordPress site?

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