Posts from “Mar 2016”

Now this was a head-scratcher: the BackupBuddy settings on 5 of my client websites simply reset for no apparent reason. And that means the websites were not being automatically backed up. Not good.

After chatting with iThemes Support (the people who make BackupBuddy), I learned that connectivity issues between the website and database can fool BackupBuddy into thinking there are no settings causing the plugin to revert to defaults. Connectivity issues could be due to DDoS attacks or a problem with the hardware. iThemes said they are aware of this issue and have built in more checks but as is life they can’t account for every single scenario.

Fortunately I caught the problem during a routine maintenance check on a client’s website. BackupBuddy now comes with a way to export the plugin settings so it’s a good idea to save a copy just in case.

File this one under “Silly Workarounds that work”. This is an ever-so-slight variation of CSS-Trick’s method.

There was some text that needed to be placed over an image. The problem was that while the text-color was fixed, the image colour wasn’t so there was a chance that you could have poor contrast between the text and the image.

The quick CSS workaround I used was to use text-shadow to add an outline (or stroke) like so:

.text-to-outline {
  text-shadow: 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000, 0 0 2px #000;
}

Hey, don’t judge me because it works. Play around with the value of the blur radius (set to 2px in the example) and the number of text-shadows applied.