This happens all too often. I wake up to find random WordPress email notifications coming to me which should not be coming to me. After some fancy detective work to located which WordPress sent the notification, I then proceed to /wp-admin/ and update…
When juggling WordPress sites between host providers and marketing agencies, it’s possible to misplace access to the Google Analytics profile. Rather then start fresh and losing historical tracking data, it’s possible to take over the an existing Google Analytics with…
It’s common practice, that if you don’t pay your web hosting services then your website will be suspended. I’m going go over the technicals of how I handle website suspensions for my customers. The majority of unpaid customers aren’t aware…
With the recent GDPR requirements, small business website owners have been left to review their business practices in order to make sure they remain compliant. Kinsta did great job at going over a lot of the practicals here: While going…
I recently switched over to Backblaze B2 to store my website backups, and it’s been a great experience. Each B2 bucket has its own lifecycle rules which determines how long to keep previous file versions. My backup B2 bucket is configured…
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 first contribution back to the WP-CLI project which makes me…
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 format /2017/12/12/identifying-bottleneck-plugins/ to the post name format This was not…
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 to use. In fact, only two of them work as…
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 something critical, it’s also useable for other situations where you…
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 similar to a daily backup it solves a completely different…