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Author: Austin Ginder

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…

The Lean Mean Maintenance Machine 💪

One thing every WordPress site has in common is the need for maintenance. You, as WordPress site owners, are responsible for some level of…

Make Reselling WordPress Hosting Awesome 🌟

I don’t know about you but the idea of reselling web hosting is generally negative 👎. And for good reason. There are plenty of…

Early Recommendations for Block Library Plugins

With WordPress 5.0 comes the new block editor 🧱. This opens up an entirely new ecosystem of plugins all around adding blocks to the…

Selective Snapshot Downloads

One thing that I really like from WP Engine is their selective download options from backup snapshots. Every night they make a backup snapshot…

Getting Started with Axios and WordPress

When working with modern Javascript like Vue.JS, a common thing is sending and receiving data via ajax. While this could be handled with jQuery,…

Smarter Site Monitor in Bash

For the last number of months I’ve been using my own site monitor. It’s been great and terrible all at the same time. It’s…

Bulk Renaming Meta Fields

Most of the time when working with meta fields I’ll use Advanced Custom Fields. One place where I don’t use ACF is within CaptainCore…

Image Optimization for Web Servers

When it comes to image optimization, my go to WordPress plugin is WP Smush Pro. That said there are times I want to do…

Moving 500+ sites to Kinsta

Over the past 6 months I’ve worked with Kinsta to move over 500+ sites from WP Engine. This will be my official review and…