Austin Ginder

Austin Ginder

Rendering HTML Output with WP-CLI

Have you ever had an issue with an individual WordPress page or post that required the use of a staging site? I’ve previously explored troubleshooting directly on the production site with WP Freighter and WP Shipyard. Today, we’ll look at…

Auditing WordPress code with WP-CLI and AI

Two week ago, Google released their newest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental. This caught my eye for two reasons (🧠 + 💵). First, it’s the most advanced coding model I’ve seen. Second, it’s currently free to use! I don’t…

Unlimited storage for WordPress with B2 and Rclone

I know there are plugins for offloading WordPress uploads to bucket storage like WP Offload Media or Infinite Uploads. However, I recently wondered if anyone tried using Rclone and Nginx rules. This weekend I decided to play around with that…

Meet Disembark

Over the summer I created Disembark, which is a super simple way to generate a WordPress backup. There are plenty of existing tools for making a WordPress backup like ManageWP, WP Umbrella, Solid Backups, and so on. So why did…

Common Compatibility Fixes for Elementor 3.26

Elementor 3.26 was a big update and dropped support for outdated and deprecated code. This resulted in several compatibility issues relating to 3rd party addons made for Elementor. This is one of those rare updates, in which you need to…

Converting WordPress Uploads to WebP

There are plenty of options when it comes to optimizing your images. With Kinsta, a single click from their built in CDN and all images will be served out using the most optimization version. Jetpack plugin has a similar feature…

It’s Always A Good Time To Fork

With the recent WordPress conflict between Automattic and WP Engine, there’s an increased talk about forking WordPress. To that I say, it’s always a good time to fork. Whenever you fork something one of the following will happen: I’m not…

Recovering Images from WordPress’ Downscaled Images

Many years ago WordPress introduce a new method for handling large images. If an image larger then 2560px wide is uploaded then WordPress would generate a scaled down version. These scaled images help keep users from accidentally linking to truly…

Checking for Large Autoloaded Data with WP-CLI

WordPress databases comes with an options table, and entries in this table can be marked for autoload. Autoloading means the row of data will be included with each request to WordPress. If the amount of data being autoloaded becomes excessive…