Recommended WordPress plugin for a new-comer

July 12, 2019
Recommended WordPress plugin for a new-comer

What I find to be important are, of course, security. The close second is ease of editing / customization. The third is beauty.

WordPress and self hosting

July 12, 2019
WordPress and self hosting

Although you can get a unique domain name at https://wordpress.com/, there is option to get a better domain name by hosting it yourself.

One way is to download the source code from https://wordpress.org/, but I did it by One-click install on DigitalOcean, in order to reuse my existing domain name. It was quite easy.

Registering domain names -- recurring costs, hidden costs and process

July 10, 2019
Registering domain names -- recurring costs, hidden costs and process

I have just registered a domain with Namecheap. Although with some costs ($10-35 USD annually), and some difficulties, I am quite glad I chose this one.

Injecting unsafe HTML into Bolt entries + CodeMirror/UIKit editor

July 9, 2019
Injecting unsafe HTML into Bolt entries + CodeMirror/UIKit editor

By default, both Markdown field and HTML field is available for Bolt CMS, but sanitation is done before inserting into the database, making rendering of certain elements impossible; especially, for those startin…

Learning PHP from other programming languages

July 8, 2019
Learning PHP from other programming languages

PHP is a bit different from other languages, like Python or Dart, in that, it is a mainly a web programming language, running on a server. Furthermore, it is actually pre-installed in macOS.

I would actually recommend this -- https://phptherightway.com/, and it is quite updated.