This is indeed not a requirement to host your own WordPress site, but another small challenge that I found myself with. My issue began when I was “poking” around in the WordPress Settings and realized that my admin email address was not “Confirmed”. Well, that is no good! So I clicked to send me an…

Hello there! Second post, and second challenge complete. I have successfully configured HTTPS connections to this site. I used instructions found here: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/enabling-https-using-certbot-with-apache-on-ubuntu/. I struggled with this more than I should have due to incorrect DNS configuration on my hosting site. If you have any records that are no longer in use, I suggest that…

When I started on this journey, I thought it would be good to have a place to keep up with ideas and notes. Thus, this site has life. You are reading this blog thanks to the cloud server instance that I spun up, along with hours of trial and error, attempting to get WordPress to…