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I have long wanted to write. For a while, in the mid-90s, I had a personal website where I wrote about CE Marking. That site was purely HTML, so maintenance was difficult at best. In 2007 I decided that I needed to start writing on topics within my engineering specialty, and I was also taking my consulting practice public. I had hard-coded an HTML website for my business, but for a blog, I needed a flexible platform that could support my creativity; WordPress was the obvious choice. I launched the blog early in 2008 and have been writing since!

  • Member Since: October 27th, 2008
  • Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
  • Website: complianceinsight.ca
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  • Created a topic, Excellent plugin!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plugin allowed me to add and train an AI chatbot …

  • Posted a reply to Webfinger endpoint is not accessible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Matthias, That's great! I'm glad I could help find a 🐞. I look forward…

  • Posted a reply to Webfinger endpoint is not accessible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks, Matthias! I will ignore the warning for now, and wait for your advice on…

  • Created a topic, Webfinger endpoint is not accessible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm not a coder. I've been using the ActivityPub p…

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    Great plugin that massively simplifies adding custom c…

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    This is a great plugin for everyone who wants to use t…

  • Created a topic, Lots of capabilities, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I just started using Stackable. I added it to my blog,…

  • Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I deeply studied my database and found my suspicions were correct. A mix of latin1…

  • Created a topic, Easy to setup, works very well, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I was looking for a Google fonts plugin that had been …

  • Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Further update: I had a look at the prevailing WP revision at the time I…

  • Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I commented out these lines in my wp-config, and now I can get the site…

  • Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi jeffpaul, That would have been a nice, easy solution, but unfortunately, it did not…

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    Scroll down to where you see "? (lambda)" and "? = failures" to see the…

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    I am trying to get some Greek characters to display pr…

  • Posted a reply to Can’t edit page with Contact Form Selector block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Miyoshisan, I can confirm two things: 1) Disabling all but Contact Form 7 has makes…

  • Posted a reply to Can’t edit page with Contact Form Selector block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yes. I’ll give this a try tomorrow and let you know the result.

  • Posted a reply to Can’t edit page with Contact Form Selector block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Miyoshisan, Here are all the details you might need: ` ### wp-core ### version: 5.9…

  • Created a topic, Can’t edit page with Contact Form Selector block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Since WordPress 5.9 was installed I find that I cannot…

  • Posted a reply to This was a great plugin, until it wasn’t, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks, Steve. I appreciate everything you did to try to solve the problem. 😀

  • Created a topic, This was a great plugin, until it wasn’t, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am a longtime user of Series, since before it was ac…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Perfect. Let's close this thread then.

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    So I've paid for a premium version of the plugin, and I've now tried twice…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Steve, In the process of trying to troubleshoot the series plugin problem, it appears that…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Steve, Well, that didn't last. My site just won't run with Series active. What…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Steve, It appeared as if PHP was running out of memory. I've increased the…

  • Posted a reply to Hummingbird causing 502 “Too many redirect” errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I just saw Pawel's post, so I've gone into php.ini on my server and made…

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    Still having issues. I've been trying to manually optimize assets, but it's a nightmare. Every…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Steve, OK, I'll do that and see what happens, then update this thread. When…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Steve, I started with disabling all plugins, then systematically re-enabling them until the 500…

  • Posted a reply to Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Steve, I've gone through the usual troubleshooting steps, with no success. It appears that…

  • Created a topic, Works as advertised, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Very happy with this GDPR plugin. Works as advertised.

  • Created a topic, Plugin causing 500 errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Six days ago there was an update to the PublishPress S…

  • Posted a reply to Hummingbird causing 502 “Too many redirect” errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Adam, I followed your instructions, but no debug.log file was generated. The 500 errors…

  • Created a topic, Hummingbird causing 502 “Too many redirect” errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Since the 3.1.1 update, Hummingbird has been causing 5…

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    The console is showing this error on my site, tracked …

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    I recently discovered that the BIGTA plugin breaks the…

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    This plugin is super helpful. It consolidates all of t…

  • Posted a reply to Easy to set up, easy to live with, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Ryan, Glad to help out! Glad to be part of your user base. :-)

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    The Hummingbird plugin is the third caching plugin I'v…

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    I've been using this plugin for a while now. I write a…

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    I've discovered that the default setting for mDocs pos…

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    I started using this plugin a few years ago based on t…

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    I use an affiliate marketing company (cj.com) to get a…

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    I installed this plugin a while ago so that I could pr…

  • Posted a reply to Google ReCaptcha v3 & Contact Form 7 Not Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm having the same problem. With reCaptcha keys set in the integration panel, 100% of…

  • Created a topic, Geat plugin, and great support!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
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  • Created a topic, Still testing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am still in the testing phase with this plugin, but …

  • Posted a reply to Can’t get Jetpack to connect to WordPress.com, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @supernovia, I've now done that. Hopefully we'll start to get somewhere...

  • Posted a reply to Can’t get Jetpack to connect to WordPress.com, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This time I deactivated Jetpack, then deleted it. I then installed the Delete Jetpack Options…

  • Posted a reply to Can’t get Jetpack to connect to WordPress.com, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi supernovia, I don't know if the problem is with the plugin or the account,…