Happy 2016, may it bring peace, happiness, health and wealth to all! Well, we are in a new year, and so far it has been a good year. Our health is reasonably good, Jan has almost fully recovered from her unfortunate accident and partial hip replacement, Elif and Mina are doing fine, we managed to … [Read more...]
Site Features and Goodies
(Image credit All About Jazz which states that the origin of the image is unknown) In his version of Hello Dolly, Sinatra sings "Blow your horn, Louie, ..." addressing Louis Armstrong. Inspired by that, I am going to blow my horn a little if you don't mind! Those who follow this blog are familiar … [Read more...]
Security & Performance for WordPress Sites
(Minor geek-alert, some parts may appear too technical.) I have been using WordPress since its early days and even made it a part of my course Marketing on the Internet when I was teaching. It has grown to be a robust, well-supported, and highly popular content management platform over the years. … [Read more...]
Kept Light 2014
Thank you all for visiting Kept Light Photography Web site. I have been maintaining this site as a repository for my photographs, writings on various subjects, and family memories. Take a look at some reminders from 2014 and read on ... " post_category="0" order_by="sortorder" … [Read more...]
WordPress Options Table Bloat
I have been a fan of WordPress for quite sometime now and have used it in my teaching of Marketing on the Internet and Web Design course for many years, and as a Web developer I have deployed many WordPress sites for many clients. Over time it has matured and turned into a very popular content … [Read more...]
NextGEN Gallery Substitutes
Addendum: I have switched back to NextGEN Gallery since they cleaned the problems and I did not get much support from Nextcellent Gallery developer. For whatever it is worth, I wanted to share this information but the post is still worth reading. NextGEN The Beginning I have been using NextGEN … [Read more...]
Forum on WordPress
This week several things came together in a very fruitful way. The Photographic Society of Rhode Island (PSRI) had expressed an interest in a members forum at the last board meeting, Packt Publishing contacted me to review a book bbPress Complete by Rhys Wynne, I have found out from the developer of … [Read more...]
NextGEN Bloat
Update: See note at the end, that's good news; kind of. I have been a fan of NextGEN Gallery, a plugin to WordPress to manage image assets, since it came into the scene. It is easy to use, capable of interfacing with different presentation styles, until recently well-supported. It has many users … [Read more...]
Site Improvements
Those visitors who come to KeptLight.com with some regularity might have noticed the stylistic changes. I have also implemented more structural and substantive changes to make your visit more pleasant (I hope) and informative. Here are the changes in a list: A new theme that is open, clean, and … [Read more...]
Your Blog (or mine) in Book Form
As interesting as this service was, for some reason it ceased to exist. I am keeping the post for a record of what was. Writing on the Web is quite different. The medium is expandable, it accommodates different types of content like video or music, it has formatting challenges, and so on. … [Read more...]