This blog runs on WordPress and uses the Parole 2018 theme. This is the Parole 2015 theme basically, with some changes by me. I chose the 2018 year intentionally so there’s no impression given that this is a modern theme. I wanted something simple/ “outdated”. Old is Gold.
The blog is hosted as a set of static pages on xmit.
From Dec 2022 to July 2026 the blog used to on Cloudways, hosted at DigitalOcean. Before that, for it used to be hosted at ASO. I now run the WordPress instance locally on my Mac in a Docker container; then using Simply Static free version to export it as a zip which I push to xmit.
It uses the following plugins:
- Urvanov Syntax Highlighter for all the code highlights.
Duo Authenticator coz push notifications rock!- Google XML Sitemaps to generate XML sitemaps for search engines.
- Schema plugin to add some SEO friendly schema.
- Google Fonts for WordPress plugin to add and easily manage Google Fonts on the blog (I splurged for the Pro version too in fact).
The following plugins are not used since the move to xmit as they are not needed/ applicable any more.
- UpdraftPlus to backup my blog to Dropbox.
- Archive Chart to show a nice graph of my posting frequency on the About Blog page.
- Redirection to handle some 301 redirects.
- Limit Login Attempts to limit the number of incorrect login attempts from a particular IP.
- Breeze for WordPress caching (Previously I was using WP Super Cache but switched to Breeze as it is designed for Cloudways)
- Use Google Libraries which loads many of the JavaScript libraries used by WordPress from Google’s servers rather than this server. Again, improves performance as chances are a Google server is closer to you than this blog’s server.
- Bunny CDN as a CDN.
This page was last updated on 12th July 2026.