My first Tedx Talk: From Pain to Purpose – My TEDx Journey

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August 30, 2025 – A date etched in my life for more than one reason. Exactly 11 years ago , I got engaged. And on that very same date this year, I received a life-changing opportunity: my first TEDx talk , hosted at GGI under the inspiring theme “Chase the Impossible.” Standing on that red dot, I felt a mix of emotions — excitement , nervousness , and the quiet ache of loss , having lost my wife, whose memories remain deeply rooted in my heart. In my talk, I shared a story born in the midst of COVID-19 — a time when Ms. Renu and I were both navigating personal grief in different ways. It was during this difficult phase that Mr. Chaitanya brought us together — blending Renu’s deep nutritional expertise with my technical background . That collaboration gave birth to a vision: A platform that could reduce the time it takes to create personalized diets , enabling dieticians to focus more on care, empathy, and connection — and patients to avoid long queues and delays. What began in ...

Resolved: php version in .htaccess is getting overridden in Wordpress

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 Are you making any websites on WordPress? WordPress is a great content management system and is a choice for millions of developers.

While it is super easy to get started on WordPress, sometimes the developers or content creators face issues that are hard to diagnose and easy to resolve.

One such issue is if your hosting supports multiple versions then the php version may get overridden in case you are not taking care of the following small thing.

Anything that is written between the following directives in .htaccess file will be overridden by wordpress.


# Begin Wordpress
// Do not put anything custom here. This section will be overridden by Wordpress
# End Wordpress

And how do you specify the version that you want to use for your wordpress? Here is what you should do

e.g using php 7.4

	
  		# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
		# Set the “ea-php74” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
		
  			AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php74 .php .php7 .phtml
		
		# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

e.g using php 8.1

	
      # php – BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
      # Set the “ea-php81” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
      
          AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php81___lsphp .php .php8 .phtml
      
      # php – END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit