Today I have been playing around with Varnish, SSL and SPDY in relation to WordPress hosting. Now, one thing that I noticed was that several images were using the http protocol instead of https – which seemed to be caused by wp_get_attachment_url.
Luckily we can use the WordPress filters to fix this issue pretty easily, as shown in the gist below. This will simply replace the http:// in the URL with https:// if SSL is being used.
Apparently this has been an issue for quite some time, but still hasn’t been fixed in WordPress.
Electric power companies, in general, are pretty much the same. Tibber however, is unlike any electricity company I had seen before. They try to utilise the data we get from smart devices, which they also sell, to save electricity, money and the environment, as well as improving comfort. It’s a…
https://vimeo.com/52450287 Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam. The video shows New York between 15:30 and 08:30 (local time) last night as Sandy hit. I used a simple script to download one…
When I chose to venture back to the WordPress default theme, one of my worries was about my Google PageSpeed score. I had to take a serious hit, right? Spoiler, there is a surprise ending! Some years ago I had made it a mission to get the perfect score across…
