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Author: Austin Ginder

Removing Legacy ms-files.php from Multisite

I created the following script to automate removing ms-files.php from a legacy WordPress multisite hosted with Kinsta. It was a large network with hundreds…

Open Revenue with Calculate ARR

I meant what I said in “Open Source All Of The Things 📖”. Today I’m excited, maybe a little scared, to announce I’m making…

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 with Google Cloud VM Instance

Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 is pretty amazing. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out. It’s a DNS lookup service which is fast, free…

Is it a Good Idea To Sell WordPress Maintenance Services in 2019?

WordPress has some rough edges and requires routine maintenance in order to run smoothly. This is very comparable to your car 🚗 requiring regular…

Multisite Optimizations and Jetpack Wrangling

Performance issues on a WordPress multisite installation can be a challenge to solve. Over the last few weeks I’ve been making various performance improvements…

Traveling While Running a Business

I spent most of the summer away from home traveling with my family. I wouldn’t call it a vacation, however it did include a…

Safely Remove WP Offload Media from Legacy Multisite

WP Offload Media from Delicious Brains is a fantastic product. It allows you to offload WordPress’ media library to Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, or…

Open Source All Of The Things 📖

There are 2 types of businesses: those that are open and those that are closed. Specifically, this is about how much a business shares…

Bulk User Removal for WordPress Sites

Recently a web agency asked if I could remove a list of WordPress accounts, if found, from all of their websites. They gave me…

Digging into Local by Flywheel’s Virtual Machine

I’m a big fan of Laravel’s Valet for local WordPress development. However after wasting a day attempting to fix a bug with Valet I…