https://thisismyurl.com/blog/ Practical guides on learning platforms, accountable AI in teaching, WordPress for institutions, and the systems that have to keep working. en-CA https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-why-i-simplified-away-from-wordpress/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-why-i-simplified-away-from-wordpress/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT AI is making flaws cheaper to find. WordPress and PHP are fine, but for my own site I chose less code to defend. What that cost me, too. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/resolved-is-not-learned/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/resolved-is-not-learned/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A vendor says 99.4% of AI tutor conversations were resolved. A Maryland trial found lower grades. 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Then you read who it asked, and not one of the categories it publishes is a teaching role. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/add-a-pinterest-button-to-wordpress/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/add-a-pinterest-button-to-wordpress/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Three ways to add a Pinterest Save button to WordPress, from a sharing plugin to Pinterest's own button to a hand-built link, and what to check after. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-cloudflare-error-20083-feed-parser/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-cloudflare-error-20083-feed-parser/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:56:28 GMT Cloudflare refused my www redirect with error 20083, and a news feed parser dropped two of five feeds without an error. What broke and the one-line fixes. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/course-video-2026-hosting-and-access/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/course-video-2026-hosting-and-access/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT Video hosting in 2026 is three separate decisions: SEO and discovery, on-site conversion, and private delivery each need a different host. Here is how to pick. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/who-gets-to-say-what-done-looks-like/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/who-gets-to-say-what-done-looks-like/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Districts bought AI with almost nothing to go on, a state wrote rules and a company wrote contracts. One question sat under all of it: what does working mean? https://thisismyurl.com/blog/before-the-excel-training-starts-what-most-teams-miss/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/before-the-excel-training-starts-what-most-teams-miss/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT The 30-minute manager prep that determines whether Excel training sticks: the prep model, follow-up rhythm, and measurement framework most programs skip. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-ai-assisted-news-sites-fact-checker-failed-28-times/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-ai-assisted-news-sites-fact-checker-failed-28-times/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT Two AI-assisted news sites launched on 19 September. The independent fact-checker failed 28 times before it ran, and the copy scanner said no 141 times. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/the-feeling-of-learning-is-not-learning/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/the-feeling-of-learning-is-not-learning/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT A learner can hand in fluent, correct AI-made work and understand none of it, while feeling sure. Why the feeling misleads, and the one check that holds. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/after-the-review-the-harder-problem/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/after-the-review-the-harder-problem/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT Paste the critique, say 'fix these,' and the AI will, until it makes things worse. Part two of the AI-review series, with real Colophon theme files. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-free-wordpress-block-themes-masthead-quillwork/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-free-wordpress-block-themes-masthead-quillwork/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Masthead joins Quillwork on WordPress.org, my second free WordPress block theme there, plus a showcase site, two redesigns, and newsletter number nine. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/can-spam-compliance-what-the-act-actually-requires-of-you/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/can-spam-compliance-what-the-act-actually-requires-of-you/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT A client was once sued over routine confirmation emails, and won. What CAN-SPAM actually requires of your business, in plain language, and what it does not. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/teaching-the-question/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/teaching-the-question/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Students mostly send AI tutors bare answers. Decades of research says asking good questions can be taught. What the newer studies test, and four things to try. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-accessibility-checker-wrong-three-times/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-accessibility-checker-wrong-three-times/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT I ran axe-core across 488 pages and hit three false positives: scripted focus, mid-fade contrast, and alt-text link names. Here's what fixed each one. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/wordpress-vip/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/wordpress-vip/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT What WordPress VIP provides, what it costs, and four honest questions that tell you whether your business needs Automattic's enterprise platform at all. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/newsroom-wordpress-migration/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/newsroom-wordpress-migration/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:15:00 GMT Newsrooms miss migration dates for three predictable reasons. The checkpoints I use to protect a hard launch date, and when to move the date instead. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/enable-svg-uploads-in-wordpress/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/enable-svg-uploads-in-wordpress/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT WordPress refuses SVG uploads for a reason: the format can carry scripts. What a MIME-type filter opens, what Safe SVG does instead, and how to choose. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/why-didnt-the-students-ask-for-help/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/why-didnt-the-students-ask-for-help/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT A two-year Khanmigo trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools found small gains and a clear reason: students rarely asked the tutor for help. Teachers can fix that. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/cloudflare-features-schools-arent-using/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/cloudflare-features-schools-arent-using/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT Snippets, Argo, Cache Reserve, Waiting Room and client-side security: five Cloudflare features a district may already have, and their real limits. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/wordpress-publishing-sustainable-next-decade/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/wordpress-publishing-sustainable-next-decade/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT The WordPress engine, data model, speed and openness are worth a decade's bet. wp-admin is the aging layer; the future is purpose-built tools on top. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/drupal-to-wordpress-migration/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/drupal-to-wordpress-migration/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:15:00 GMT Drupal to WordPress, from someone who moved a national newspaper. 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Everything I currently give away, in one place. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/tending-thirty-side-domains/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/tending-thirty-side-domains/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:22:18 GMT I taught my overnight AI to tend my side domains like a garden, put Claude's new model Fable to work on real jobs, and kept the judgment human. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/the-20-minute-discovery-call-what-i-ask-why-i-ask-it-and-what-a-good-answer-sounds-like/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/the-20-minute-discovery-call-what-i-ask-why-i-ask-it-and-what-a-good-answer-sounds-like/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT The six questions I ask on a twenty-minute discovery call, why twenty minutes beats an hour, and what a useful answer sounds like. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/wix-to-wordpress-conversion-process/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/wix-to-wordpress-conversion-process/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT Wix got you online, and it may still be the right answer. How to tell if you have outgrown it, what actually moves across, and what the change costs. https://thisismyurl.com/blog/750-papers-would-have-been-wrongly-flagged-as-ai-written/ https://thisismyurl.com/blog/750-papers-would-have-been-wrongly-flagged-as-ai-written/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Vanderbilt did the maths: a 1 percent false-positive rate meant about 750 papers wrongly flagged as AI-written. Why detection taught students to hide.