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  • Export certain posts with WP-CLI

    Did you know it’s possible to export certain posts using WP-CLI? I didn’t, but a big thanks to Daniel Bachhuber for pointing me in the right direction. That led to my…

  • Safely Remove Dates from WordPress Permalinks

    I’m not sure if this is a growing trend, but I recently decided to drop the dates from my blog post URLs. Previously I was using the day and name…

  • Exploring Fathom Analytics

    In terms of web analytics, Google Analytics dominates. I’ve tried some of the open source alternatives (see below from wiki) however I haven’t been very impressed. Most of them are difficult…

  • WordPress Maintenance Mode over SSH

    WordPress has a built in maintenance mode. You’ve most likely seen it at some point while updating WordPress, themes or plugins. While meant to protect WordPress from itself while doing…

  • Introducing Quicksaves with Rollbacks

    Announcement

    Today I’m announcing Quicksaves, which is a hosting feature I recently built. They’re essentially a daily WordPress snapshot containing only themes, plugins and version numbers. While this might seem very…