Austin Ginder

  • Cleanup with WP-CLI and Regex

    Recently one of my customer’s WordPress sites was filled with random hidden span tags containing a single word: “Save.” The source is a mystery, however I suspect it came from…

  • Disabling Emails on WordPress Staging Sites

    Using a staging site is great for troubleshooting, however you don’t typically want your staging site sending out email notifications. Luckily there is an easy solution to this problem by…

  • Keeping Paid Themes & Plugins Updated

    WordPress makes is fairly straightforward to update your themes and plugins. Tools like ManageWP make it easy to update everything for all of your WordPress sites. That said, keeping your…

  • WooCommerce Keyless Activation System for Extensions

    The main WooCommerce plugin is free but WooCommerce is more than just a single plugin it’s an entire ecosystem unto itself. Recently WooCommerce changed how they handle their paid extensions.…

  • WP Engine and Email Notifications

    Having your website send emails successfully is more difficult than it should be. Earlier this year WP Engine moved all of my dedicated servers over to Google’s infrastructure. Google’s has…

  • Talk from WordCamp Lancaster 2017

    In March I gave my first WordCamp talk at WordCamp Lancaster called “Staying Sane While Maintaining Hundreds of WordPress Sites”. It was a great experience and I will plan on…

  • Remote commands over SSH from WordPress (Using phpseclib)

    I commonly want WordPress to run code, like a bash script, directly on the command line. In PHP there is a set of functions which is commonly disabled for security…

  • Backup Offloaded Amazon S3 Uploads

    If you’re using WP Offload S3 to free up local storage then you’ll also need to backup your Amazon S3 uploads. Rather than running two separate backups, one for the website…

  • Resolving SFTP Errors After Server Migrations

    Have you ever connected to a web server over SFTP? If so then it’s likely you’ll see one of these errors at some point: remote host identification has changed , host keys changed,…

  • Triggering WordPress AJAX Callback from PHP

    WordPress makes it easy to run PHP code from Javascript. This is extremely useful for running custom code without reloading the page. The following part I’m using to send backup…