Rather than using a separate plugin or paid service, I used macOS’s Automator application to create a folder action that converts popular image and video file types to AVIF and WebM, respectively. This way, regardless of the media format, I can drop it into a predetermined folder on my Mac…
I started my web journey with Dot5Hosting back in the mid 2000s and ultimately transition to Bluehost shared hosting on September 18, 2008. After growing issues with performance and uptime, I switched to Siteground on June 13, 2015 at the recommendation of many users across the WordPress ecosystem.
Over my 15 years in web development and social media, I’ve seen healthcare colleagues venture into blogging but quickly decide to quit. They had little regard for search engine optimization (SEO), visual design, security, or performance. More egregiously, they posted content that violated patient privacy. Although many of these points…
After RK.md went to an all dark-mode interface, I received some feedback from users saying they preferred the “light mode” version. To accommodate this, I kept some elements in the header and footer as “dark mode” but have the body of the website automatically display in light or dark depending…
Here’s a list of the WordPress plugins I use for RK.MD. I try to keep it simple! This post was last updated 11/18/2025. Drop me a comment with the plugins you use and/or recommend!
Ten years ago on this day, I registered my current domain name, rk.md, through the country code top-level domain for Moldova. At that time, this site was running WordPress 2.7 using the original TinyMCE visual editor. I had no idea what it would become throughout my medical training.
This is a momentous day for web developers and the Internet at large – PHP 7 has been released! 🙂
In my pursuit for optimization without utilizing resource-hungry plugins, I’ve compiled the following PHP snippets to run as cron jobs on my Bluehost account.
As part of renovating this site, I wanted to cut down on the resource-heavy social media share links at the end of each post. I’ve modified some of the CSS created by Chris Ferdinandi to replace the aforementioned links with simple color-based links to various social platforms. Furthermore, I tapped…
Thanks to the Disqus Recent Comments Widget, WordPress users can easily display recent Disqus comments through sidebar widgets; however, for dynamic sites with significant activity, Disqus API requests can prove to be cumbersome. What if you exceed the allotted requests per hour? How slow will fetching recent comments make page…