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…
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 – Markdown and WordPress Embeds Part 4 – Authenticated Rest…
I regularly migrate WordPress sites. As such I’m always looking for the quickest and simplest way to handle the migration. Recently I’ve been handling all of my migrations directly between servers using SSH. This will be a rough overview of…
For most people, switching a WordPress site from http to https is possible with just a few clicks. That’s a big thanks Let’s Encrypt, which is being widely adopted by many popular web hosting companies. That said, there can be a…
Most WordPress-specific host providers will have some sort of hosting dashboard to manage website redirections. These pages allow you to directly configure the web server rules (Apache and/or NGINX). WP Engine and Kinsta make this fairly straightforward to use as…
Advanced Custom Fields relationships are pretty amazing. You can easily manage relationships between virtually anything. The official ACF docs on querying relationship fields is a fantastic walkthrough showing how to handle the front-end display of basic relationships. It works by using…
I recently discovered wp_schedule_single_event which, as it sounds, allows you to schedule a one time event. This helped solved an issue I was running into while attempting to get Mailgun and Constellix talking to each other. Automating Mailgun setup with delayed DNS verify…
Awhile back I built a process management system within WordPress. You can read about that here: Recently someone asked me how I built it, so I figured it’s time for a follow-up post. 16 months later and I still use…