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Speedy Mercer

@herohog on WordPress.org

Bio

Retired Sr Programmer/Analyst who started out as a Master Mechanic/Racer/Car & Bike Builder but was disabled in the US Navy and eventually couldn’t work as a mechanic so went to college through the VA and became a computer geek just as home PC computers were becoming a “thing.” I was also a gigging Blues/Funk/Classic rock drummer in my spare time for many years and worked as a Classic Rock FM Radio DJ for a year or so in my off hours. I finally got so bad physically that I was forced into retirement and now I live in my recliner surfing the web and piddling around with computers.

Interests

Computing, Music, Firearms.

WordPress Origin Story

I needed a fairly easy to use CMS to help out my BIL so he doesn’t have to depend on me or some high priced person to keep his site up to date.

  • Member Since: January 31st, 2012
  • Location: Shreveport, LA, USA
  • Website: dontsweatthesmallstuff.biz
  • Job Title: Fat, old, 100% disabled, retired (forced) Sr Programmer/analyst who has lost way too many brain cells due to age, illness, and Dr prescribed pain management that is never enough to make me comfortable.
  • Employer: My cat is my company...
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  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Screw this, I give up. This is SO not intuitive now does it work "out…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As you can see, I've tried several things to make it work, most of which…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As a test, I made my web root .htaccess file like this: DirectoryIndex /WordPress/index.php and…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for your response! I used an installer app on my web hosting provider's site…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Well, CARP! It's back to just throwing errors. "ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access this…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok, it sorta works but I still have pathing issues. My folder structure is: {WebRoot}/WordPress…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update 2: getting this error "This page isn’t workingwww.dontsweatthesmallstuff.biz redirected you too many times.Try deleting your…

  • Posted a reply to Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update, it IS a pathing issue! I put "DirectoryIndex /WordPress/index.php" in my webroot .htaccess file…

  • Created a topic, Old, Retired, Programmer, having issues getting WP to work., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm an old man suffering brain fade and can't grock th…