Customise the look

Log inGo to: https://domain.org/subfolder/wp-admin → enter your username and password.(If you’re not logged in, WordPress sends you to the login screen automatically.) Go to the CustomizerFrom the left-hand menu: Appearance → Customize.This is where all visual changes happen in Twenty…

ChatGPT Help

Users of ChatGPT will know that there are many trivial applications for the platform. We’ve created our own, which doesn’t have these built in. You do need to sign up to use it flexibly – but it is free (with…

You Tube!

Youtube embeds are more versatile than others, allowing to create fully immersive experiences. You can embed individual videos or channels and playlists, the last time I checked. But take care to tune your GDPR compliance because Google will track your…

How to embed a form e.g. Membership with payment options

This form doesn’t take any payments – it is purely for illustration. Embedding of a simple form solution that is supported by our multisite is tricky, but there are a variety of options. Jotform is a well used software that…

How to embed a flickr page

You can embed in a variety of ways. The flicker embed block is probably the easiest and safest way. There is usually a quite prominent share button at the flickr end and a shortlink, which allows you to link a…

Adding and Updating Users

In the networked environment, because we have multiple users working on multiple sites, individual site administrators have limitations on what they can do with users. An admin can remove a user entirely from the site in quetion, but they cannot…

Twitter Shuts Down Free API

Twitter has shot shut down its free API, which means the main freemium plugin no longer works, for non paying users. This is Twitter’s own tool for WordPress, which seems to work. [twitter_profile screen_name=”EdinBRIC” height=”800″] Useful, but since twitter became…

Login Problems

SCCAN network insiders – who have logins for their Spaces may have noticed login problems over the last couple of days. We noticed this too and narrowed the problem down to our security certificate software. We escalated the problem to…

Block layouts

The masonry layout popularised by pinterest needs a bit of work to get right. We borrowed this pattern from here: https://wordpress.org/patterns/ In the editor WYS is not WYG, making it harder to adapt the content for your use case. This…

Powerups for bloggers

There are variety of tools you can use inside a page to power up your blogging. The lists of posts are particularly useful if you have a number of specific thematic areas that may interest your niches/communities, or perhaps you…