Tag: wordpress
All the articles with the tag "wordpress".
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Automattic also wants .php
Kruno Golubić
Automattic's registry company named .php as its second choice in ICANN's 2026 round. What the application says, why a file extension as a domain ending worries security people, and why 21 October decides whether it stays in play.
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Who owns your domain ending
Kruno Golubić
Verisign is removing third-level .name addresses, and Automattic's registry has applied for .wordpress. The name you use and the name you control are not always the same thing.
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How I Spent Half a Day Fixing a WordPress Charset Problem (and What I Learned)
Kruno Golubić
Converting a WordPress database to utf8mb4 with ALTER TABLE garbled its Croatian characters, because the data had been stored as latin1 bytes for years. A latin1 dump and a utf8mb4 reimport fixed it.
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Why I Moved My Blog to Astro
Kruno Golubić
I moved my blog from WordPress to Astro because I already wrote everything in Markdown, and a CMS was more machinery than one author needs. Apart from the domain, the whole setup runs on free tiers.