Category: Computer


SMTP plugins for WordPress – improve your admin email deliverability

If you’re not receiving email notifications from your WordPress website, you might need to set up SMTP email sending.

Laptop & Phone Recycling Project

With having a background in IT and a keen interest in reducing waste, I’m going to start experimenting with recycling old laptops and Android phones.

Ubuntu Linux for gaming in 2021

Setting up a dual booted gaming PC with Ubuntu Linux was a breeze in 2021 – here are my notes and links

Learning Javascript at freeCodeCamp Nottingham

I’ve been going to freeCodeCamp in Nottingham for the last few months, with the local meets kindly organised by Will White. While I’ve got HTML/CSS and jQuery covered from the day job, I want to learn vanilla Javascript and then React Native so I can make an app I’ve got an idea for. freeCodeCamp Nottingham […]

WP Super Cache on Heart Internet

We’ve recently started getting WordPress sites to pass the Google Pagespeed Insights test to help with SEO. As part of this they are looking for the server response time to be as low as possible. One way to get this down is to serve HTML cached versions of the WordPress pages rather than doing a […]

Google Pagespeed tweaks for WordPress

Site speed is now an important signal of site quality to Google and our SEO guy has started running sites through the Google Pagespeed tool when assessing sites for clients. This usually throws up the same issues with WordPress sites and I’ve made some notes on how to fix these. With our own server we […]