This week I was doing regular maintenance on a few WordPress websites and happened to notice that one was taking forever to finish loading. What tipped me off was the progress indicators in Mozilla Firefox (the moving dot) and Google Chrome (the spinning circle) kept going and going and going. It was rather annoying, especially…

I think it’s safe to say that everyone hates to get online form spam. I do. And I can’t think why anyone wouldn’t, but to each their own, right. Regardless, my go-to online form spam prevention tool, like many other developers, is reCaptcha, Google’s free “I’m not a robot” checkbox with subsequent “Choose the correct…

So, the other day I was asked to embed a YouTube video for a client. Ok, easy enough, I have done it plenty of times and knew just what to do. However, something had changed in YouTube’s “Share>Embed” options. Primarily the checkbox for “Show Related Videos” was now missing. Ok, no problem. I understand that…