Tag: wordpress

Fixing WordPress 404 Not Found Errors When Using Permalinks

I was setting up a new install of WordPress recently, running locally on my laptop. After a while I started getting “404 Not Found” errors on opening any individual page on my new WordPress site: I couldn’t open posts or static pages and had no access on tag or category links.

Developing a Minimum Viable WordPress Plugin

What is the minimum amount of coding required to create a new plugin that shows up in the WordPress dashboard? How much code has to be written to get the plugin to do something minimally interesting? It’s really pretty easy to create a minimal WordPress plugin to experiment with. Simply create a .php file under

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

Writing-Style Checkers for the WordPress Blogger

With the start of this blog I became interested in writing style. I don’t think I’ll be alone in saying that writing in a clear and direct way can be difficult to achieve. There have been metrics around for years for judging the clarity and structure of writing, so I became curious about what might