Erik L. Arneson is a freelance writer and software developer with WordPress experience. He is located in Portland, Oregon. Jekyll 2026-06-18T15:03:10+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/feeds/debugging.xml Erik L. Arneson Erik L. Arneson 2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/2025/11/new-wordpress-services <p>Your WordPress site is either making you money or costing you opportunities. I’m opening up my calendar for quick-turn projects—and offering <strong>free site audits to new clients.</strong></p> <p><strong>With 10+ years building WordPress sites,</strong> I’ve seen the same problems tank small business budgets: slow load times, security vulnerabilities, broken plugins, and sites that just stop working.</p> <!--more--> <h2 id="what-im-offering">What I’m Offering</h2> <p>See the full list on my <a href="/wordpress/">WordPress services page</a>. Here is a quick rundown:</p> <ul> <li>Quick-turnaround emergency WordPress rescue</li> <li>Site speed optimization</li> <li>Security hardening</li> <li>Plugin customization</li> </ul> <p>I am also available for <strong>monthly WordPress support retainers.</strong></p> <h2 id="first-time-client-special">First-Time Client Special</h2> <p><strong>Free 30-minute WordPress site audit (normally $75)</strong></p> <h3 id="what-youll-get">What you’ll get:</h3> <ul> <li>Speed analysis with specific fixes</li> <li>Security vulnerability check</li> <li>Plugin bloat assessment</li> <li>Prioritized action plan</li> </ul> <p><strong>No obligation.</strong> Just honest feedback on what’s holding your site back.</p> <h2 id="between-the-lines">Between the lines</h2> <p>I’m based in Portland, but work with businesses anywhere. Projects are priced for value and speed—not hourly rates that incentivize me to work slowly.</p> <p>The bottom line: <strong>If your WordPress site is slow, insecure, or broken, you’re losing money every day.</strong> Let’s fix it this week, not next quarter.</p> <h2 id="what-next">What next?</h2> <p>Contact me on my <a href="/wordpress/">WordPress services page</a>, or using the form below.</p> <!-- modify this form HTML and place wherever you want your form --> <form action="https://formspree.io/f/xjvzwrkp" method="POST"> <label> Your email: <input type="email" name="email" /> </label> <br /> <label> Your message:<br /> <textarea name="message" rows="20" style="width:90%"></textarea> </label> <!-- your other form fields go here --> <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6LcDtPsSAAAAALF66lY2GqToLSZShqoxLMGsBMFf"></div> <button type="submit" class="btn">Send</button> </form> <p><strong>Questions?</strong> Feel free to DM me on LinkedIn.</p> Erik L. Arneson 2015-02-11T19:15:26+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/2015/02/test-internet-explorer-without-booting-windows <p>Internet Explorer (IE) has been frustrating me. I want to use stronger words than that, but it would be unprofessional. <!--more--></p> <p>I recently launched the <a href="http://arnesonium.com/2015/01/philalethes-e-bulletin-online-reader/" title="Philalethes E-Bulletin Online Reader"><em>Philalethes E-Bulletin</em> Online Reader</a>, which uses EPUB.js and an implementation of XPath that, for some strange reason, isn’t available in IE. I found a few solutions which would work, but all of them require testing in IE. Of course.</p> <p>This seems like it wouldn’t be a problem, except that I run Linux all the time. All of my work happens on the Linux side of things, so booting into Windows just to run IE for one tiny bug fix is an inconvenience and a chore. <!--more--></p> <p>A friend of mine pointed me to <a href="https://www.modern.ie/" title="modern.IE: Virtual Machines for running Internet Explorer" target="_blank">modern.IE</a>. Microsoft has graciously released virtual machines usable under MacOS and Linux for running IE and testing. Be warned, however, that the license only lasts 90 days.</p> <p>I downloaded the 3.5GB virtual machine image and loaded it up in VirtualBox. This might be unusual, but I don’t do a lot of work with virtual machines on my development box. I was immediately greeted with this: [caption id=”attachment_269” align=”aligncenter” width=”530”]<img src="http://arnesonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screenshot-from-2015-02-11-094245.png" alt="Don&#039;t worry, the loading time was a lie. It only took 5 minutes." width="530" height="423" class="size-full wp-image-269" /> Don’t worry, the loading time was a lie. It only took 5 minutes.[/caption]</p> <p>This solution is not the best for my setup. My computer is getting long in the tooth, so VirtualBox runs neither quickly nor smoothly. However, in this situation, I only needed to test a few lines of code, so it worked.</p> <p>In my next blog post, which should be coming out shortly, I’ll talk about how I got the <em>Philalethes E-Bulletin</em> Online Reader working for IE.</p>