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Another Computer is using the printer

Another Computer is using the printer

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Solution: Resetting Print Spooler ServiceThe spooler service is a software program which is responsible for managing all print jobs being sent to the computer printer. The print spooler service is usually visible to users and they can also cancel a print job which is being processed. It also allows them to manage jobs which are currently on the waitlist. We can try restarting this service and check if this solves the problem. Press Windows + R to launch the Run application. Type…

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WAMP upgrades

WAMP upgrades

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To easily upgrade your WAMP installation, go to the WAMPServer Backup Repo and download the Wampserver update x.x.x (whatever the latest version of WAMPServer is) from the second section of the page titles Wampserver Updates. That will upgrade the WAMPServer code, and nothing else. All code/databases will remain just as they were before.

Inconsistent Admin 404 Errors

Inconsistent Admin 404 Errors

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There is something that can happen when you are logged into your admin area but not experienced by other users and that is when your posts start to return a 404 Error at regular intervals. Most people have experienced this issue when both viewing and editing a post but always when logged in as the admin user. You know the post exists, right! You created it after-all, it was listed along with all of your other posts so why is…

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Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute

Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute

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“Say what now??? Briefly?? It’s been like 10 minutes!!!” If you’re reading this then you probably haven’t experienced this issue before and your WordPress site is unavailable… and it’s been a lot longer than a minute. This type of error is not common and tends to appears after a plug-in update has attempted to complete. Thankfully it rarely becomes an issue even when an update fails but when it does it can leave your locked out without a key! Luckily…

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Add Code to WordPress Header Without a Plugin

Add Code to WordPress Header Without a Plugin

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At Learning Glue we talk a lot about the advantages of using a child theme for your self hosted WordPress site, and we consider that approach to be best practice for any WordPress site. As we hope you know, one of the most important advantages of using a child theme is that you can update your theme without worrying about losing styles, scripts or other custom configurations. With that in mind, we will assume your site is using a child…

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Custom Style Jetpack Social Media Icons

Custom Style Jetpack Social Media Icons

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If you ever want to want to change how the social media icons from the Jetpack widget look on your web pages simply add the following code to your styles sheet and replace the comments “Insert your custom styles here” with your own styles. /*Style jetpack social icons*/.jetpack_widget_social_icons ul li {/*Insert your custom styles here*/} Best practice is to use a child theme and this code should be added to your child theme style sheet. For more on child themes…

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When InDesign pushes short words to the next line

When InDesign pushes short words to the next line

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By default InDesign uses a muti-line composer (called Adobe Paragraph Composer) which tries to be helpful by looking at your paragraphs and balancing out the quantity of words per line. The result is usually good but sometimes you can end up with large spaces at the end of seemingly random lines. If this is a not working for you a easy fix it to select the misbehaving paragraph and choose the Adobe Single-line Composer option in the justification section of your paragraph style.

Posts randomly returning 404 Errors

Posts randomly returning 404 Errors

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This is very frustrating but a fairly common issue with WordPress especially when you are logged in as the Admin and working in the admin area of your site. There are  number of reasons why this may be happening. Let’s work through these and how to fix them. Permalinks This issue can happen if your .htaccess file was somehow deleted or edited with incorrect data. To fix this you  need to do update your permalinks settings: Go to Settings »…

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Forcing HTTPS with .htaccess

Forcing HTTPS with .htaccess

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Often it can be beneficial to force your website visitors access your site using an SSL-encrypted connection (https) rather than the standard http connection. These reasons could be for security or to ensure that your site is meeting the recently updated Google ranking rules where your ranking will be negatively affected by user not assessing you site via https. whatever your need, the following guide will should you how to ensure that all of your visitors are forced to use…

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