I was previously hosting this site on a WebApp instance in Azure but partly due to cost reasons I decided to migrate it over to AWS. There’s a variety of guides available to help with parts of this but nothing that covers the full process so I figured I’d try Read more…
You can deploy WordPress onto an Azure Web App by copying the files directly to the FTP site behind it but the easiest option is to clone it directly from the offical WordPress Github repository. This can be done by adding it as an external Git repository in the Deployment Read more…
If you’re setting up a WordPress site in an Azure Web App then an easy option for hosting the required MySQL database is to use the MySQL in app option of the Web App rather than setting up a new MySQL server. Though it’s worth noting that this isn’t very Read more…
I use the Hestia theme for this site which I think looks pretty good. One problem with it however is that uses v4 syntax for Font Awesome icons but includes v5 of Font Awesome in its assets. The change from v4 to v5 of Font Awesome was quite a large Read more…
I hadn’t really thought about this before as I’d just assumed that any code that I posted would be freely available for anyone else to use as they saw fit but it turns out that I actually implicitly retain the copyright if no license is provided. I have now added Read more…
This site is built using WordPress and styled with the Hestia theme. Hestia uses Bootstrap as a layout framework with the main boxed element being a container, this has a max width of 1170px on viewports over 1200px wide. As this blog uses a lot of code elements which frequently Read more…
I recently migrated this blog over to WordPress from BlogEngine.NET as BlogEngine.NET seems to have been abandoned. In the process of setting up WordPress I discovered that the backend database is MySQL, as I mostly work with Microsoft SQL Server and a SQL database on Azure is cheaper than than Read more…