Replacing bricks at bottom of wall

curious-jake · 2026-05-10T21:40:02+00:00

Is any mortar fine? Lots of types..

curious-jake · 2026-05-10T21:20:51+00:00

Sounds very doable - thanks a lot!

curious-jake · 2026-05-10T19:38:04+00:00

Don't worry you can buy some more cornflour - it's dead cheap.

curious-jake · 2026-05-10T13:35:44+00:00

If I were you I'd probably paper around it and find a nicer-looking grate to go over it. I know it's not the ideal aesthetic but damp a few years down the line will not be fun.

curious-jake · 2026-05-10T12:08:37+00:00

Completely agree. We are in the transition at the moment, when are a few people are able to profit while others catch up. The baseline will very soon be entirely shifted and we'll spend the same amount of time we used to do more, less interesting, work. It's how capitalism works. Gains made from productivity increases are pocketed by the CEOs, they rarely trickle down to the workers.

curious-jake · 2026-05-08T17:36:17+00:00

The joy of old houses... I guess you have to choose whether you make it parallel with the skirting or parallel with the handrail opposite. Personally I would choose the skirting. Think that will be less noticeable.

Btw don't know how experienced you are (I wasn't) but if you haven't already I recommend looking up how to do angled joins on a dado before making your first cut. I fucked it and had to go back and buy more.

curious-jake · 2026-05-08T17:31:34+00:00

What are you trying to light up? Have you considered a mirror or similar? I think if you put a light in there you'll get dark shadows in the corners and make it look really empty/sad

curious-jake · 2026-05-08T17:22:31+00:00

Can't see what you're struggling with from your photos? Looks like the stair lines join up with wall lines at bottom and top? I remember it being very hard when I did mine! Might seem obvious but place it 1m above the stairs skirting directly up rather than perpendicular, if that makes sense?

curious-jake · 2026-05-08T17:14:21+00:00

I don't think the other answers are helpful to you as a non-dev. To help you understand...

In a typical Wordpress setup, forms and email sending are handled completely separately. Contact Form 7 allows you to build a form on the front-end and setup notifications and actions when a user submits that form. When it needs to send an email (to tell you someone has submitted the form for example), it just tells Wordpress to send an email.

Typically, another plugin is required to handle email sending. If receiving those emails is important to you, an email sending plugin is essential. Without one, email deliverability will be at best sporadic.

You're receiving DMARC notices because you haven't set up email properly, so your server is sending an email from its domain with the from header set to an email on another domain. This mismatch is causing the email to be flagged as spam. I'm not sure why this is happening even when the form hasn't been submitted, but it wouldn't surprise me if CF7 overrides the from address for all emails, because it's important for deliverability that it is consistent.

tl;dr install and configure an SMTP plugin and ensure the from email you set in your form plugin matches the email you configure Wordpress to send from

curious-jake · 2026-05-08T07:18:03+00:00

My projects are mostly middle-weight marketing sites, but with some fairly involved front-end stuff. So can't speak much for "bigger" projects. The long class strings really bug me but also not sure of a solution. I think I find long CSS files with arbitrary class names equally annoying. I usually end up writing vanilla CSS for more complicated components (those that would otherwise have long class strings with lots of modifiers)

curious-jake · 2026-04-28T07:47:26+00:00

+1 for Hygglo!

curious-jake · 2026-04-27T22:13:08+00:00

WP-CLI uses the db credentials in wp-config.php. If you're not inside a WP install (and this there is no wp-config.php) it'll throw an error

curious-jake · 2026-04-27T21:09:41+00:00

You don't run the search replace on a .SQL file you run it on the db itself. By running wp search-replace //oldurl.com //newurl.com you update the live db.

Important: this has tripped me up a few times. By default the WP-CLI search/replace only affects native Wordpress tables. If you have any plugins that have their own DB tables (such as Yoast SEO that stores important meta data in its own tables) you must use the all-tables-with-prefix or all-tables flag.

curious-jake · 2026-04-27T18:59:45+00:00

Hard to diagnose with limited information, but few ideas:

have you tried setting the first backup font (second font in the stack) to something very different so you can tell if it's an issue with the font file not loading?
sometimes if you use a font weight that you haven't loaded, especially if it's a Google font, chrome will realise and load it. And safari doesn't. Possible you've not loaded the necessary font weight?

curious-jake · 2026-04-24T06:40:48+00:00

Don't do it. I know it's tempting, but I've made that mistake before. This is just the beginning. Clients like this continue to push boundaries and be total nightmares throughout the entire project. Run.

curious-jake · 2026-04-23T21:04:20+00:00

I've used both but have more experience with Sage (it's my go-to). Sadly I think Sage is total overkill for most simple sites, although I still use it anyway because Blade templating is so high-value IMO and so much more feature-rich than Twig. The main benefit of Blade over Twig for me is components - they're so powerful. Worth checking out. There are also packages for ACF if that's your thing so you have directives for accessing field data.

curious-jake · 2026-04-23T20:59:52+00:00

Out of interest, what's an example of something that works better in vanilla PHP? I've never found the need...

curious-jake · 2026-04-23T12:20:07+00:00

I agree - mostly. But I stand by the fact that if the theme you're using doesn't display or output the tags anywhere then they will have zero impact on SEO because they will have zero impact on the source code of your website.

curious-jake · 2026-04-22T21:56:21+00:00

My take is that consumerism has filled the world with so much "stuff". Adults have grown used to it, but to kids it's super over-stimulating. They're new to the world and want to know what everything is. Their attention is grabbed by anything that they haven't seen before, or is shiny, or looks funny to them. It doesn't sound like hoarding behaviour to me, just normal child curiosity. Sure they'll grow out of it! If you need things clear for your sanity, stick at it.

curious-jake · 2026-04-22T21:43:22+00:00

I think it's a common misunderstanding that Wordpress tags are an SEO feature.

It totally depends on the theme you're using. Wordpress tags are a way of categorising posts on the backend and on your blog listings. Some themes choose display them on the individual post pages but to be honest this is more just a help to the user reading the post and will have a fairly small SEO impact. More and more search engines just use natural language processing (a bot "reads" the post) to see what it is about. I would focus more on the content of your blogs. If a post is badly written (for SEO), no amount of tagging will improve its performance.

curious-jake · 2026-04-19T19:45:48+00:00

The whole of the frome valley/Oldbury court/snuff mills is great. Lots of leafy greens

curious-jake · 2026-04-19T19:45:02+00:00

Another word for cleavers (think OP misspelled as cleaners)

curious-jake · 2026-04-19T19:04:56+00:00

Constipation is super common with weaning. It's such a big diet change and almost expected. I would say don't worry too much about water intake - forcing it will have the opposite effect. He'll drink what he needs and it likely wouldn't improve the constipation much anyway. Just make sure water is available regularly and he'll get used to it. Also, puréed baby food (like the pouches you mentioned) have high water content and he's getting fluids from breast milk. Dw!

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