Category Archives: Internet

Where Can I Get a Pulse Oximeter?

Beauty & Personal Care, Health, Internet, Shopping, Technology,

where can I buy a pulse oximeterIn the last year, with the coronavirus pandemic becoming more and more widespread, many items have become essential in the home in the battle to keep ourselves safe and healthy. One such item, which has been highlighted in the press recently is a pulse oximeter. If you are wondering where can I get a pulse oximeter? then there are a few options. Continue reading Where Can I Get a Pulse Oximeter? →

Making a Facebook ‘Post to Page’ Public

Internet, Social Networks & Online Communities, Technology

Facebook have changed the way that business pages work and it is often very difficult to find posts that are made to pages and to make them public so that anyone who likes your page can see them.

I have found this problem with a Facebook Page that I manage recently and did find one way of solving the problem of making the post public on a page.

You also used to be able to change a setting that would show posts by other people in your timeline but this is no longer possible. Continue reading Making a Facebook ‘Post to Page’ Public →

How to Connect the HP 2600 Printer to Wifi

Computers & Electronics, Internet, Technology

So I recently purchased an HP 2620 (one of the 2600 series) all in one printer – it was pretty cheap and had a good deal whereby if you don’t use much ink you can get it free with HP Instant Ink.

Anyway, I wanted to set this up and connect to a Chromebook which was a task in itself. In order to do this I first needed to connect the printer to the Wifi network. In theory this should have been very easy by pressing the Wifi button on the printer and then pressing the WPS button on the Wifi router. Continue reading How to Connect the HP 2600 Printer to Wifi →

WordPress Plugin for Managing a Rota

Internet, Technology, ,

I recently had the situation where I wanted to install a plugin on one of my WordPress sites that would enable a number of people to volunteer to man an art exhibition for various shifts on a rota basis.

I searched around for a rota plugin but the only one I found had only been updated 8 years ago so that was not something I was happy with using.

There were a bunch of plugins that came up for managing employee shifts etc but it took me a while to find a plugin that seemed to do what I wanted it to.

In the end I found a great plugin for a simple rota system which is called Sign-up Sheets and you can create an entry for each shift and for each date and also add how many spots there are available for that rota spot.

An except from the sign up view front end

To show the rota on the front end you need to add the code [sign_up_sheet] to a page you have created (this was not immediately obvious!) and that will show you all the available slots for the dates and times you have created.

Another good thing is that when someone signs up for a slot they get sent an email confirming that slot so that they know what they have signed up for.

I have only used this so far for the one exhibition and it seems that I will need to delete any old data if I want a new rota to be the only thing to show on the website but that is fine, once the date is gone then I won’t need it to show any more.

There is also a pro version of the plugin with extra functionality which I have not tried but will do if I need it.

I just wanted to share the info about this plugin being useful for rotas as it did not come up initially in my searches.