Austin Ginder

  • Easily Avoidable Website Outages

    Site monitors are a good way to detect major issues with websites. Over the years I’ve begun to notice a few common reasons why websites go offline. You might be…

  • Moving a VPS from Digital Ocean to Google Cloud

    WordPress websites need to managed by someone who can keep after things 24/7 if you wish sleep well at night. That’s why for hosting WordPress websites I rely on managed…

  • Phone Support Hacks from Google Voice to Twilio ☎️

    I have a confession: I really don’t like using my phone for business. If you are a customer of Anchor Hosting, I do my best to hide this fact. Don’t…

  • Find and Replace Hardcoded File References

    Generally finding and replacing old URLs can easily be accomplished using WP-CLI’s search-replace command. However that only makes changes to the database. Hard-coded file references may still exist. This can…

  • Fathom’s Internal API

    I’m a big fan of Fathom Analytics. It’s the perfect alternative to Google Analytics and something I’ve been using since early 2018. One thing Fathom lacks is an official API…

  • WP-CLI Database Backups with Emojis

    My preferred way to backup a WordPress site is directly on the web server using SSH. The database backup part is performed with WP-CLI like so: This will output a…

  • WordCamp Lancaster 2019

    This year I spoke at WordCamp Lancaster, the annual one day WordPress conference here in my home town. I gave a talk in the beginner track titled The Lean Mean…

  • Learning Vue.js as a WordPress Developer Part 3 – Markdown and WordPress Embeds

    This post is part of a series called “Learning Vue.js as a WordPress Developer” Part 1 – Getting Started Part 2 – Structured PHP, Rest API and Axios Part 3…

  • Getting Started with WooCommerce Subscriptions for Hosting Services

    There are many ways to collect recurring subscription fees from customers. Today I’m going to cover how I use WooCommerce Subscriptions here at Anchor Hosting and why I think it’s…

  • Overriding Recovery Emails in WordPress 5.2

    WordPress 5.2 introduced recovery mode which allows site owners to access their WordPress backend in situations which previously crashed the website and required a developer. This is an amazing new…