Problem: This week someone asked me if I could help him with a problem with Tresorit. He was backing up his emails, 5-6 GB, to Tresorit. Every time he went to copy files, after a few minutes the Internet connection no longer worked. Windows 11 indicated that there was no connection anymore. Rebooting was the only solution after which the wireless Internet worked again. It
Problem: For a WordPress website with WooCommerce webshop, I get the message that some categories in the webshop shows the error message that no products were found. This is strange because the product overview pages are set to show only categories with at least 1 product. I visit the webshop myself and can reproduce the problem. In the wp-admin environment, I go to the list
Problem: For a Dutch WordPress website, I use the Contact Form 7 plugin to collect event registrations. Completed forms are stored in the database using the Advanced Contact Form 7 DB plugin. This way they can be easily exported back to CSV. But this plugin also supports WordPress shortcodes so that I can display the registrations in a table on the front-end of the website.
Problem: Since several days I have been suffering from spam comments below blogs on my website. It often involves 10-20 posts a day, all of which also become visible to my visitors. The comments consist only of a name + email address and the same email address is also left as a comment. At first it was at the same blog each time. After 1
Question: With Elementor and Elementor Pro it is possible to create forms for pages. They can consist of different types of fields, for example: radio button, checkbox, input and off course the select list with options. In the editor of Elementor Pro it is very easy to add one or more options. But the problem is that this are static options. In the current version
Problem: This weekend I was expanding an existing WordPress website with WooCommerce web store to include support for subscriptions. To do this, I was using WooCommerce Subscriptions. Installing and setting up the plugin, an extension for WooCommerce, was easy and done within a few hours. However, I spent a long time dealing with the problem that the WooCommerce product page was displayed without styling or
Problem: With the free version of Elementor, it is possible to add a button widget to a page. For example, I use this button on my homepage at the bottom so that people can click through to more blogs. Elementor always had the option that you could change the size of the button to: Extra small Small Medium Large Extra large These are standard sizes
Problem: My WordPress websites uses the Jetpack plugin that makes it possible for visitors to subscribe themself so that they get an e-mail when I publish a new blog. This week a subscriber sent me a mail to tell me that the links in those e-mails doesn’t work anymore. I directly tested it and the subscriber was right. When you click on the link you
Today I updated a WordPress site with a custom theme to make it work correctly with PHP 8.1 and WordPress 6.4.2. One of the steps I took was to upgrade from Font Awesome 5 to 6. Although some of the code still looked like Font Awesome 4. Problem: All icons still worked after the upgrade. One exception was the search glass icons in the input
Problem: In mid-September, Apple released the new version iOS 17 of their operating system for iPhones. Personally, I always wait a few weeks before installing it so I can be sure there are no more major problems anymore. This week, iOS 17.0.3 was released and I downloaded and installed it through the “Settings” screen of my 2020 iPhone SE. This all went fine. While installing,
