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Bio

I built my first website in 1995, hundreds of pages for WBAI.org, a community radio station in New York. Lots of content, mostly repurposed from the monthly station magazine. Since 1999, I’ve reported broadband and telecom at dslprime.com, fastnet.news, and infrastructurebuzz.com. Wrote two books …
In a prior life, I was a programmer, on the pdf standards committee, a piano mover, active in cooperatives …
I do my own four news websites and occasionally have done web sites for others.

WordPress Origin Story

I switched from Joomla to WordPress around 2014. In 1995 I started in NetObjects and moved to Dreamweaver. I chose Joomla in ~2007 because back then it was more powerful although WordPress was always easier. By around 2014, WordPress had improved and had all the functionality I needed for my sites.
I love the extraordinary variety of plugins since I switched.
I still miss some Joomla tools but WordPress is moving ahead much faster.

  • Member Since: September 1st, 2010
  • Location: New York all my life
  • Website: fastnet.news
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  • Created a topic, How do I hide category just below the title in posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I found instructions in how to do this in neve with th…

  • Created a topic, Use Time.ly with Block Editor?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Time.ly looks good for a new site I'm building with th…

  • Created a topic, Basic Instructions?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Anders and all Poe looks like an excellent theme I'd l…

  • Created a topic, Can’t find Minimum answers required, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Creating poll. Getting Can't publish invalid minimum a…

  • Posted a reply to Possible new hack CHEMOD 77, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you. I have wordfence installed and have followed many of the suggestions. My backups…

  • Created a topic, Possible new hack CHEMOD 77, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Got hacked about 90 minutes ago. Defaced hacked by che…

  • Posted a reply to Wordfence disabled site origin widgits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We came over from Joomla not long ago. The support you've been giving at SiteOrigin…

  • Posted a reply to Wordfence disabled site origin widgits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Andrew You're right. I didn't realize Widgets for SiteOrigin was different than SiteOrigin Widgits. Wildly…

  • Created a topic, Apparent conflict with siteorigins widgits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Painful. Scan claimed site origin widgits bundle had b…

  • Created a topic, Wordfence disabled site origin widgits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Wordfence scanned grandersonwealth.com and disabled si…

  • Created a topic, Delivers, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I installed it on 4 sites without problems. Do note yo…

  • Created a topic, Does not allow restore to a different server, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is a basic function of any backup/restore program…

  • Posted a reply to List posts in dashboard? ?plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you. I had a different question, however. I'm asking how to list posts in…

  • Created a topic, List posts in dashboard? ?plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'd like to see my most recent 15 or 20 posts in my da…

  • Created a topic, Good for single article?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm looking for a widget to easily display a single ar…

  • Created a topic, Support fast and accurate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm using siteorigin on two sites and it's working wel…

  • Created a topic, Clean, fast, looks good, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Works well with Site Origin. Excellent support the one…

  • Created a topic, Did the job and very fast support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We sent over two questions and each was answered sensi…

  • Created a topic, It worked as soon as I installed it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I had a fairly complicated table from Google Sheets, 1…

  • Created a topic, sitemap cannot be read error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've installed jetpack sitemap but Google can't read i…

  • Posted a reply to Best way to show selected posts on home page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks Kartik but this answer is about displaying posts in widgets or other pages. What…

  • Created a topic, Best way to show selected posts on home page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I want my homepage to only show posts from one categor…

  • Posted a reply to Newbie can’t find map page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you.

  • Created a topic, Newbie can’t find map page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm just switching from Joomla to WP. Please forgive m…