Category: Blog
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My other web sites
Some people asked where my other websites are. (Did you know that I publish several other personal blogs?) So, here is a condensed list: Wild Focus The portfolio of my best photographs YLoveBigCats Big cats are just amazing animals YLovePhoto Photo technique (and pictures from other photographers) YLoveIllusions Optical illusions 200gluten Life with coeliac disease
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Theme security for a WordPress site
It is a fact of life on the Internet that hackers are roaming continuously in search for a chance to apply their knowledge to abuse your web site. Recently, I had the occasion of noticing an opportunity that I should not have let happening on Roumazeilles.net My web site is using WordPress as the “engine”…
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GDPR: Some helpful documentation
It seems that I can help some readers with a library of information about GDPR, the new (in May 2018) European Regulation about Privacy and the handling Personal Data on web sites. It may appear as quite complex. So, I collected a list of those articles I found most interesting for a first reading/introduction (aimed at…
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How to comply with GDPR in WordPress
I have several web sites wirtten with WordPress and I needed to comply with the new GDPR European regulation (new in May 2018). After a few hours of work to find how to do this right… I decided to share my experience and show the steps I went through; not very difficult, but rather lenghty,…
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Milestone: 11 years, 1 million visits in a year
Roumazeilles.net just went through one of these moments I will easily remember! The visit count regularly climbs since the inception of the web site, but I just noticed something I’m pretty proud of: In the last year (more precisely, the last 365 days), this web site got more than one million visits as counted by…
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Test your web site load speed
While working on improving the performance of my web sites, I have been using several tools in order to evaluate the performance of the site itself. Some are good, some are very good, some are overwhelmingly good. You cannot avoid mentioning the Google webmaster tools. They do a lot of things and contain a performance…
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WordPress Performance: a cache plugin
I confess that I had left this issue aside for a long time: The performance of my web sites was left uncared for. This was apparently not a real issue, but laziness is trip companion that will never leave you (or after much efforts). After testing/evaluating the load times of the pages of YLovePhoto.com because…
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If you want 25 answers
photo credit: Marco Bellucci So, as suggested, you used Yahoo! Answers to grab the attention of Yahoo! users (and Yahoo! search engine) and of people who have questions to ask. So, you thought that this was the end of it? Of course not. Even if Yahoo! has a great legion of followers (specially in the…
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Top commentators
If you are one of the fastest typing commentators on this web site, you may find yourself interested in the newest little widget on Roumazeilles.net. The most prolific commentators are now highlighted on each and every page (in the side bars). If you have correctly filled your web site affiliation, this will count as a…