I started searching online for a solution and there seemed to be solutions for loads of older versions, but nothing about the current 3.0.3 plugin. After successfully getting the plugin to run on various other copies of wordpress on the same server I started to look at the config of the problematic blog. The only thing that differs on this site, compared to my others, is the level of security I have set. I quickly discovered that the All In One security plugin (also known as WP security) was stopping the Cloudflare settings page from loading. Simply disabling the WP All In One Security plugin allowed me to load the cloudflare wordpress plugin and get around the blank grey settings screen.

I can now configure wordpress without any issues to use Cloudflare. Once I set all of the API settings in the cloudflare plugin I reactivated the WP All In One security plugin and had it reinsert all of my .htaccess rules. surprisingly, the Cloudlfare plugin now plays nicely with the WP All In One Security plugin and I can get on with my day.

If you are having issues with a blank settings page using the cloudflare plugin with wordpress, have a look at your security plugins & disable one at a time until you are able to enter your API credentials. Then re-enable and hopefully you can carry on with your blogging.

Hope this works for you. Please do let me know if it does.

This hissing & buzzing of the external iMac speakers was driving me mad. A few years ago I remember a fix called Antipop which was a small Daemon which would play a system narration consisting of no actual sound, but enough to keep the sound driver from sleeping.

Antipop has not been updated for years & didn’t seem to work with El Capitan & Sierra, so I decided to make a quick fix using the same kind of empty narration speech and Sierra Launch Control. This fix will persist after sleeping the system & also after a reboot. On my system it has eradicated the annoying pop of the driver going to sleep & also stopped the speakers buzzing by maintaining power through the aux cable and my externally powered & amplified speakers.

1. Open Terminal and use nano to create our plist file for launchctl using the following terminal command:

   sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.antipop.plist
   

2. Paste the following text into terminal (nano) using ctrl + v

   <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd“>
   <plist version=”1.0”>
   <dict>
   <key>Label</key>
   <string>com.antipop</string>
   <key>KeepAlive</key>
   <false/>
   <key>RunAtLoad</key>
   <true/>
   <key>ProgramArguments</key>
   <array>
   <string>/bin/bash</string>
   <string>-c</string>
   <string>while true; do say ‘ ‘; sleep 10; done</string>
   </array>
   </dict>
   </plist>

3. Press ctrl + o to save the file and hit enter to confirm.
4. Exit nano with ctrl + x
5. To start the plist and set it as a persistent service use the following command in terminal

   sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.antipop.plist

Those few simple steps will give you a pop around 10 seconds after running the last terminal command, after that you should find that your external speakers no longer pop & because the driver won’t go to sleep you wont get the buzzing & hissing on your external monitor speakers.

I hope this helps, please do let me know how you get on. This was put together using research from around the internet & by looking into how antipop used to work.

If you want to revert the changes you made, simply unload the plist from launchctl using the following command in terminal:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.antipop.plist