Austin Ginder

  • Keyless Activation With Easy Digital Downloads

    Paid WordPress plugins typically require an active license in order to receive plugin updates. While I understand the need for plugin authors to utilize license keys, I really dislike dealing…

  • Quickly Resolve Plugin Conflicts with WP Freighter

    I’m currently building WP Freighter which is a WordPress plugin that enables lightning fast ⚡ duplicate copies of your WordPress site. There are many potential use cases for WP Freighter,…

  • Building a WordPress Plugin

    I recently decided to build a WordPress plugin. It’s called WP Freighter, a lightning fast way to create a duplicate copies of your WordPress site. I’ve built WordPress plugins for…

  • WP Freighter Uses a WordPress Multitenancy Architecture

    Two weekends ago I decided to start building WP Freighter as a WordPress plugin. This gives an interface to stacking multiple WordPress sites on a single WordPress instance as explained…

  • HTTPS domain redirects with Netlify

    Have you ever configured a domain redirect to a specific page on a website? If so then you most likely had mess with an SSL in order to get the…

  • Powering WordPress with Gmail

    Improving email deliverability from WordPress is best handled with a 3rd party service like Mailgun. That said, setting up Mailgun requires technical knowledge. You need to add new DNS verification…

  • Email Triggers for Simple History

    Getting notified when critical plugins are updated is something I sometimes get asked about after a bad plugin update takes place. While there are many ways this can be accomplished,…

  • Local Lightning and Upgrading to WSL2

    If you’re a web developer and using Windows, then WSL2 is an exciting upgrade. It’s Microsoft’s completely new Windows subsystem for Linux and comes with some pretty fantastic performance improvements.…

  • Experimental Stackable WordPress Mode

    WordPress can be configured as a standalone site or a multisite network. Ever since I wrote about Dynamically Load WordPress Database, I kept wondering if that method could be used…

  • Extracting Compressed Files from the Command Line

    Spend enough time on the command line and your bound to memorize a few common commands like zip -r backup.zip wp-content/ and unzip backup.zip. Compressing files and extracting them is…