Month: November 2017

Running PHP on the Command Line

I’ve been exploring PHP recently and wanted to test some simple code in the PHP interactive shell. I was puzzled to find that I couldn’t seem to make anything work in the shell – I could enter commands, but didn’t see any output from them. You can run php interactively by entering “php -a” in

Fixing “Verification Failed” errors in Google Search Console

Recently I set up my WordPress site as a “property” in Google Search Console. It was fun (and informative!) to watch the “position” feature in search analytics, listing what search terms found my page and what position each hit was in the search results (for a few results, the position of one of my posts