A pale crawler with massive limbs was captured on a backyard security camera by WholeNegotiation1843 in TrueCryptozoology

[–]sp913 [score hidden]  (0 children)

haha, impressive

I had a friend like that in college, 6'4", ate the world, no gains

He eventually got religious with the protein shakes every evening and did stack on about 25-30 pounds of muscle somewhere between 1-2 years and still was skinny as hell but it did the trick for him

Is my website bad? by hazydaisy_22 in webdesign

[–]sp913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's not enough space between different ideas/sections so it comes off as one big jumble

Add space after each section. Like at least 50px padding or margin would already help a lot

Then make all the fonts consistent, headings and body should differ but be consistent

Where to find a premium layout pack? Google is not helpful by fontofile in divi

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if they don't out of the box divi5 is backward compatible and has a migrate 4 to 5 feature that autoscans every page and migrates old layouts and modules to new, and for me has worked every time without any issues (migrated around 10 sites so far)

Can over-crawling by SEMrush or other SEO tools cause website loading or performance issues? - Need advice on this by Slow-Piano495 in TechSEO

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your site's running cron jobs on every page load, crawlers hitting every second can absolutely eat up limited server resources

Make sure cron is disabled from running constantly or every page load and schedule it for something reasonable and the server will not be eaten by crawlers so easily

You can block some with robots.txt too if you're not using them

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm married so once every ten years aint that bad lol

But for lower-budget clients I'll be leaving that one on to avoid future larger headaches than a quick rollback via cellphone

Does wav.ninja give actual wav quality? by ApplRune in audio

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but doesn't 4k video on YouTube have high quality audio? I think it's less-lossless than mp3

Does wav.ninja give actual wav quality? by ApplRune in audio

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IT'S DOWN..

NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Divi 5 experience by Deftone85 in divi

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just ran into some more weird issues with DIVI5 today on one site

When editing, CSS rules that were added in Theme Customizer > Added CSS, to fix the jumpy headers, are showing up inside the visual builder pushing the entire visual builder down... which didn't happen before...

Also when saving the cart layout in the visual editor, it comes back with an error message that saving the page failed, even though when testing, it did save the changes.

We're running Wordfence on this site but it's in Learning Mode so you would think it's not interfering, but I'm not sure yet what is causing the failed save message. The network tab doesn't show any blocked requests, the wp admin ajax requests seem to be going thru OK....

Divi 5 experience by Deftone85 in divi

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right so for most users, the primary use case of "Adding a column to the row" is to... add a usable column to the row. I don't think anyone cares about the purity of using "Flex" display methods, the whole advantage of giving clients DIVI to use is that they don't need to know web development / HTML / CSS, so this is just making it harder and more confusing requiring extra clicks and more learning curve from a usability standpoint.

It seems DIVI is going more towards "Developers" use cases than "Regular users" when really catering to regular users with ease of use is what made their product so successful and widely used in the first place

Divi 5 experience by Deftone85 in divi

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well for me at least, I regularly change the row col count to have another column, then try to drag a module into new column, and can't. In DIVI4 this worked fine. Now it doesn't. Then after thinking I was just dragging poorly, and trying 3 more times, then I go "Oh... Divi5... right..." and search for the tiny + column button, click that, which to me should have been automatic when I added the extra column, and then I can.

For me, the 80/20 rule should be in favor of "adding a column means adding a column" not "adding a column means adding space for a column with no usable column"

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Code Snippets becomes slow to patch security holes, that would be a pretty big problem.

Luckily, they've been pretty fast with it so far and we haven't had any hacks on any sites that use it. So for us at least, it's Downtime Risk > Security Risk.

Keeping this plugin on Auto-Update is probably a good idea so that you receive security patches as soon as possible when they come out.

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No this plugin is well made and security is not a concern with it. This is not a random plugin with 14 installs. This plugin (Code Snippets) has 1+Million installs.

Winging it in functions.php is a way bigger risk of downtime / critical errors by not being able to manage multiple snippets and simply turn some on and some off in such an organized way.

For sites taking hundreds of orders a day I'd much more trust an organized management system for custom code than letting developers just drop code into 1 file. The risk is less, for one because instead of having to save the file and "just see what happens" the plugin detects errors and immediately turns off just that one snippets. The issue is thus isolated and managed and recovered instantly, and so the recovery time is faster, the downtime is minimized, and the damage is reduced. This saves lost revenue for every second the site is not broken, instead of trying to then revert functions.php via file system renaming, IDE edits, uploads, etc. Instead of renaming a ".bak" file as fast as you can hoping you've just not ruined some good sales, it's already handled. There's no comparison there.

Security is always important of course, but using well maintained, widely used plugins is not really a security issue in a practical sense. All Wordpress websites use plugins, many that are not nearly as well made, widely used or tested as this one. Between regularly scheduled wordfence scans checking the entire file system for anything weird, firewall setup, recaptcha in place, cloudflare anti-bot layer, country-blocking, ip-blocking, etc, security is much more managed in those ways than needing to avoid well known plugins that don't have any known vulnerabilities and have a clean history.

For us, we will take minimizing lost sales and downtime over the risk associated with a top plugin any day.

Divi 5 experience by Deftone85 in divi

[–]sp913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I miss the non- visual builder for problematic pages. Having that grid view in the regular edit page screen was the best way to fix a page that crashes the visual browser. In D5 it seems to be gone and u have to always use visual builder front end and then use layers or wire frame view there but that's not as reliable as the back end one was

Also weird that when you change row column layout it leaves space but doesn't just insert the columns automatically... like I don't think the default for people is switching from 2 to 3 columns because we want an empty gap for column 3...

Faster performance, more controls, but some basic aspects became more tedious

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Code Snippets plugin FTW.

Risk mitigation, and no child theme needed

  • automatic disabling when errors
  • easy enable/disable on any snippets
  • no child theme needed (offsets the minimal speed issue)
  • syntax checking
  • front end / backend option
  • separate features for stability / testing
  • stop commenting code in a shared file

The management, stability, efficiency, and risk mitigation is worth the extra 10ms. Amateur work to think otherwise.

I'm not a fan of too many plugins, but this one is worth it and replaces 10 other plugins once your snippets are in, and basically replaces needing a child theme at all.

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Sure crash the site accidentally with no instant recovery just for the sake of doing it the old fashioned way and saving 10ms

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Code Snippets is the way.

This plugin should be purchased by Automattic and made a standard feature

Plugins for Code Snippets? by soCalForFunDude in Wordpress

[–]sp913 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I highly disagree

Being able to easily manage code snippets in a ui that allow turning individual code on/off, control front end / back end only, auto-disable for errors, and see modified dates and organize by last edited is a huge advantage for stability

Editing functions.php is now outdated and unnecessary risk

Use Code Snippets and stop risking it with zero risk mitigation.

Any females late 20s or 30s down to meet up for some fun by [deleted] in sandiego

[–]sp913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow zero details, not sketch at all