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WordPress 6.2 breaks many sites and plugins: here’s how to repair the damage

WP HTTP no longer sets HTTP referrer and MySQL escaping picks up new strings.

Set VAST Ads To Trigger Whenever You Want

Serve ads to your viewers easily and fairly. FV Player VAST allows for mid-roll VAST ads based on watch time.

Video of the Week: Chasing Shackleton

In 2017, adventurer and ecologist Tim Jarvis recreated Ernest Shackleton's journey by boat from Antarctic to South Georgia Island.

How important is the difference between DxO DeepPrime and DeepPrime XD

The difference is not huge. The claims for image improvement are overblown as are the claims about false detail and imaginary textures.

Adventures in Autoplay and Sticky Video UX

Both visitor and publisher benefit from simple, intuitive rules. For a visitor to feel comfortable, it's essential that site behaviour is predictable.

How to troubleshoot a WordPress membership website

The goal of these steps is to solve issues fast and ensure that troubleshooting causes as little pain as possible to the publisher.

Newest hosting option: PeerTube

FV Player supports a wide variety of hosting and other video-related services. The newest addition is PeerTube

Short film contest – $100K in cash prizes

Nanlite insists all the films must be new, so it won't be other festival retreads and films from 2021. The competition is open until 31 May.

DNSmadeasy.com miscounting queries, charging thousands in dubious overages

Check your DNSmadeeasy overage charges carefully. "Our counting system is broken" is not an excuse many judges would accept.

How to Show Recently Watched Videos with Elementor

FV Player can be used to show videos which the user has started watching right in your Elementor theme.

Two ways Prompt to Continue Watching can improve your video site

Both LMS and video-on-demand sites benefit from an are-you-still-watching system, but with very different duration.

Lunar Monitor Control for M1 Macs

Lunar is powerful and ambitious software. No one else has taken on Apple's crippling of monitor controls in quite the same head-on way.

Privatising Journaling: Ray Dalio’s big mistake in Principles: Your Guided Journal

Ray Dalio, famous investor turned non-fiction writer and historian of investment (Dalio’s descriptions of the decades through which he traded will be invaluable source of insight into the market of that half century in as little as fifty years when there will no longer be any living witnesses. He’s decided to share his system for […]