I needed to update PHP to 7.4.x on my Lightsail/Bitnami hosted WordPress site, which meant I needed to spin up my site on a new instance and re-do all the initial setup. (There may be other ways, but since Bitnami is packaged […]
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creating a WordPress staging instance
I always want to test out updates before making them on my live website, even if it’s just minor version updates to plugins, to check that the update completes and there are no obvious breaking changes. In the past, I just spun […]
Monza Mod: a child theme
As I’ve mentioned, this site uses the Monza theme (version 1.0.5). For the most part, I really like it, and it’s better behaved than another theme that I tried, which didn’t quite want to cooperate with Google Fonts. Still, I saw a […]
once more, with lightsail
Hi. I’m Nicki. I make code and photographs. This is approximately the zillionth iteration of my website in the past 15 years (well, of a website of mine–I usually have multiple, because I have not tended to disable the old ones), on […]