OceanWP v4.0 loses Google Fonts

Check this! All my OceanWP websites lost their default font and fell back to something Roman, so everything looked ugly! Basically all websites using OceanWP did no longer load their Google fonts after the update to version 4.0.

Solution: I had to manually enable the fonts again! How?
Go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer > Typography > Google Font Settings and enable Google Fonts – hit “publish” and done!

Looks like someone at OceanWP forgot to check backwards compatibility…

Have a nice day!

KB5043145 update breaks USB

DO NOT INSTALL THAT UPDATE!
(updated 12/10/2024 see at bottom of article)

At least on two of my computers, it completely disabled the USB ports, leaving me without mouse, keyboard, bluetooth and any way of giving any input to the computer to do anything.
Luckily I had Google Remote Desktop installed previously so I could take over the screen and fix the issue.

Not everyone, but others do have the same issue, see:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-insider-program/major-problem-with-version-23h2-for-x64-based-systems-kb5043145/m-p/4256541
I also posted my issue here:
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kb5043145-windows-11-cumulative-update-preview-build-22621-4249-22h2-and-22631-4249-23h2-sept-26.28865/

So what happened:

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OceanWP Header background image black

Did you try to control this with a function?
And did it stop working recently and is now only showing a blacked out area?
Did you use the hook ocean_page_header_background_image and the function as posted in the OceanWP docs?

Well… Just change your script to give back the image ID instead of the URL:

if ( is_singular( 'post' ) ) {
  // $bg_img = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/img/my-image.jpg';
  $bg_img = 1394;
}

You’re welcome.
Have a nice day!

PS.
Also posted to support hoping maybe OceanWP can fix this, so we can use the image filename/URL again?

Accessing an old router

Would be a waste to toss an old wifi router that still works…
However it could be a problem to access the admin page because the HTML presenting it is so old that it just won’t show up in a modern browser. It just will not render correctly, tabs empty, buttons and links don’t show.
So, google to the rescue and land here.

My issue was with a Sitecom WL153 but the solution presented simply worked.

“My solution was to download and use an old version of Firefox Portable – no installation required and can run as an unprivileged user. I would suggest you search around for which versions of the browsers will work with your devices.”

For me the 2013 version of Firefox 25 worked like a charm…
Problem solved!

Have a nice day!

Teamviewer Connect greyed-out and disabled

What a week… sometimes things just keep going wrong for no reason. Today it was Teamviewer not giving me the option to connect to a remote PC to simply view their desktop and help the person with an issue they were facing. The option ‘Connect’ was just greyed out, not being able to enter an ID. Even the box on the top ‘insert partner ID’ did allow me to enter a number, but expecting that number to be added to the list, the ‘Connect’ option there did not do anything either.

The “Ready to connect (secure connection)” you see at the bottom of the window is also a little misleading there, because it does not want to connect at all!
So… what is the solution?

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