Austin Ginder

If you’ve ever worked with git for a WordPress project, you may at some point accidentally added private keys and other sensitive data into the repo. It’s easy to do especially when your working on a project that you’re not…

There are many options for sending out email newsletters. Recently, I was reviewing various options for sending out my CaptainCore updates. At first I was tempted to just grab entries from my Gravity Forms and send out a regular email with…

WP Engine is one of the main web hosts I use for Anchor Hosting. They recently announced new staging and development environments which will eventually make the existing staging site feature obsolete. In fact they now call staging “Legacy Staging”. During…

When using command line applications, like WP-CLI, you may run into a scenario where you’re attempting to pass too much information via arguments. That will result in an error like zsh: argument list too long: wp or /usr/local/bin/wp: Argument list too…

A few months back I announced a new feature called Quicksaves. Each Quicksave contains a fair amount of website data which I’ve been storing in a WordPress custom post type and some custom fields with Advanced Custom Fields. Right from the…

Most WordPress management systems include a one-click login button for accessing the various WordPress sites. This makes it really convenient when bouncing between different WordPress sites as no passwords are required. I’ve wanted this super convenient login setup for my…

My own WordPress management toolkit is built on top of SSH. That’s very different than other alternative WordPress management systems. To talk more on how I ended up making the decision to build on SSH let’s dig into some advantages and disadvantages…

There are lots of great tools available for managing multiple WordPress sites. I currently use ManageWP which is an amazing tool. Since the beginning of this year I’ve been working on my own WordPress management toolkit call CaptainCore. Development on CaptainCore has been…

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…