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We got a good deal on some Acer monitors for the whole office so that everyone could have two monitors. Shortly after they got installed we would run into issues where only one monitor would come on. These were put into the Display Ports. The monitor would show “No Signal” even with the blue power light glowing.

This was the best fix for us.

• Unplug the power cord from the “no signal” monitor
• Restart the computer
• Make sure the monitor is powered back up before the computer starts back up..

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We have a small internal website we use which was built in WordPress using the Gantry Hydrogen template. We got the notification to upgrade to 5.5.2 and we did. Gantry has been very reliable to just update. This time however, it wrote over custom home page with the formatted layout that comes with Hydrogen.

We had to reinstall the site from a backup. We have a couple of Joomla sites running Gantry, but haven’t upgrade yet.

We got an inquiry for procuring equipment for ElevanceHealthUS.com for a Michael Hodgins. When we put the domain in the browser we were directed to a Elevancehealth.com web page. The “US” at the end of the domain was dropped. We did a “whois” search on the domain and discovered the domain without the “US” went to the company in Illinois. This was correct. When we searched the other the domain was registered in Iceland.

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We were ready to ditch Joomla! when we needed to show “Featured” articles on the home page with intro text and intro image, but then link to the full article. What the default mode is show the article in the same spot as the blurb. This did not work for our layout. This is a “no-brainer” in WordPress, so we were disappointed with Joomla! for not having be easy.

We got is working and it was easy. It did take some “Joomla! Smarts” to figure it out, but as often with Joomla you will need a “hidden” menu. It is hard to link to anything in Joomla if there isn’t a menu item. We do like this because you need content for the page, you need the page, and then you can link to it. Which really does make sense, because there is no point of putting a link to something when there really isn’t content.

Here is what we did:

• Created two “categories” for the articles called simply “Posts” and “Pages“.
• The home page link was set to “Featured Articles”.
• Created a “hidden” menu which is a menu that just resides in the backend just to be able to create the right URL.
• Made a new menu item and set it to “Category Blog” and the category was “Posts“.

That was it, and the site was working the way we wanted it to.

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Working on an existing DIVI site we needed to change a few things in the custom footer area; however, the page builder would just spin. We cleared the cache in DIVI and the on the server, but nothing worked. A search on the web got us our answer.

The solution was “Permalinks“. We had to set them back to “plain“. We cleared out the cache in DIVI and on the server. We set the permalinks back to “Post”. After that the builder was working!

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We get these from time to time, but we have never written about it. We just want to do IT work and fix stuff, so we find these annoying and just want to put a warning. They often come from “State” agencies who need equipment. Often the information is slightly skewed. In the last case we noticed the email address had an extra letter “d” to the domain. Here is what their emails look like. We highlighted the things that tipped us off.

We get these about 4 or 5 times a year, and sometimes waste our sales teams time running it down.

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