HTML5 Market Share

As I was updating this website to incorporate HTML5, I pondered how many visitors this upgrade would accommodate. After conducting a brief investigation, I uncovered some intriguing statistics.

HTML5 is the latest version of the markup language used to create web pages and web applications. It was released in 2014, and since then, it has been rapidly adopted by developers and businesses worldwide. The market share of HTML5 has been growing steadily, and it has become the preferred technology for web development.

According to the latest statistics from W3Techs, as of February 2023, HTML5 is used by 91.3% of all websites that use markup languages, making it the most widely used markup language on the web. This is a significant increase from its market share of 29.1% in 2011, the year it was introduced.

HTML5 has replaced its predecessor, HTML4, which had limited functionality and was not able to support the modern web applications that users have come to expect. HTML5, on the other hand, has a range of new features and functionalities that enable developers to create more interactive and dynamic web pages and applications.

The adoption of HTML5 has been driven by the need to support the growing number of mobile devices and browsers that are used to access the web. HTML5 is designed to be mobile-friendly and responsive, which means that web pages created using HTML5 can be accessed on any device, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops, without the need for additional code or plugins.

In conclusion, if you are updating your website to support HTML5, you can be assured that it will be compatible with the vast majority of web users. With HTML5’s market share of 91.3%, it is the most widely used markup language on the web and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

How to Add Facebook Like Button in WordPress

Adding a Facebook Like button to your WordPress website will allow your visitors to like and share your content on Facebook. You can add this Facebook Like button with this plugin or manually modify your template. In this article, we will show you how to do it by adding it to your WordPress template manually.

Step 1: Open the Facebook Like button configuration page

Step 2: Scroll down to “Like Button Configurator” to configure your Facebook Like button layout and size. You can leave the “URL to Like” box empty. The URL will be dynamically generated when a user click like

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How to access localhost from mobile device

When you are designing your mobile compatible website on your local environment, you may want to test your website on your mobile device. This is to make sure it works on mobile devices before you deploy it to a live or production environment.

Many time, you just have to enter the IP address of your machine into your mobile browser and it works. But sometimes, you may have to configure your Windows Firewall, or Apache Server to make it work.

The following instruction will make sure you can access to your localhost on Windows from your mobile devices.

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ERROR: The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)

After you installed phpMyAdmin, you logged into your phpMyAdmin for the first time and see the following error at the bottom:

The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)

To correct this error, you need to add a blowfish secret to the phpMyAdmin’s config file

Step 1: Open phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

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How to change the WordPress default media folder

By default, your WordPress upload folder is located at wp-content/uploads. Every time, you upload an image, your image will be uploaded to wp-content/uploads. You can change this default location by modifying your wp-config.php file:

Find:

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Add the following code before the above line:

define('UPLOADS', 'yourNewImagesPath');

Now, every time you upload an image within your WordPress admin dashboard, your image will be saved at your new location.

How to add free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt to WordPress on AWS

Adding SSL certificates to your website is now important. This will enable your visitors to communicate with your website securely. Since Google now consider SSL as one of its ranking factors, this implementation will help improve your SEO ranking.

The following instruction is for WordPress site on AWS that was deployed using Bitnami stack.

Step 1: Login to your AWS server using a SSH client

Step 2: Install Git

sudo apt-get install git

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How to Re-direct http to https

After you installed an SSL certificate for your domain, you may want to re-direct your visitors from http:// to https://. This will help your webpage load securely. Now, google search ranking also supports https://, this will also help your SEO.

You can modify your .htaccess file and add the following code to the beginning of your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Your .htaccess file needs to be in the root folder of your website to make it works.

How to Install Apache 2.4.37 + PHP 7.3 + MYSQL 8.0.13 on Windows

If you are a PHP/MySQL developer, it is very important to be able to work on your application locally in your own environment, since you can make changes and update to your application quickly and effectively. The instruction below will help you to setup your environment with the latest version of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. For any reasons, you are still using the older versions, you can follow the old setup of Apache, PHP, and MySQL here.

Since I put together that instruction 4 years ago, it no longer works with the newer version of PHP 7.3 and MySQL 8.0.13. So here is the updated instruction:

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WordPress SEO permalink structure

For SEO purposes, the best permalink structure is the one that is simple and clean. For WordPress, either one of the following is best:

 /%postname%/

Or

/%category%/%postname%/

Here at www.clipsify.com, we use the first one because each post may have multiple categories.

Some Useful Ubuntu/Linux commands

Delete all files and folders in that directory

rm -rf FolerName

CHMOD Code:

644:file readable by anyone and writable by the owner only.
755:readable/executable by everyone and writable by the owner only.
777: Full access by anyone
-R option is to apply to files and folders within it.
```
chmod -R 755 directory-name
```