A common feature of managed WordPress hosts is an easy one click deploy to a staging environment. These deployment features are well used. On occasion I’ll have my own customers reach out because they want to clone an existing websites but keep the current production and staging environments as-is. That’s easy, right? I’ll start…
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I really enjoy making things. At the beginning of summer, I accidentally made a new CLI while talking with Google Gemini. I initially used Google Gemini to improve a few bash scripts I wrote 8 years ago. The results were pretty great. Then I had the…
AI is here to stay, and the ways that developers make applications are forever changing. There is no return to human-only coding. Moving forward, I’m convinced that the vast majority of code will be generated and not written. This transition is happening sooner than most people think. Developers, your workflow is about to change…
Have you ever had an issue with an individual WordPress page or post that required the use of a staging site? I’ve previously explored troubleshooting directly on the production site with WP Freighter and WP Shipyard. Today, we’ll look at a new way of troubleshooting plugin issues using WP-CLI. Render Command is a WordPress…
Two week ago, Google released their newest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental. This caught my eye for two reasons (🧠 + 💵). First, it’s the most advanced coding model I’ve seen. Second, it’s currently free to use! I don’t know what Google is thinking by releasing an advanced coding model for free. I…
I know there are plugins for offloading WordPress uploads to bucket storage like WP Offload Media or Infinite Uploads. However, I recently wondered if anyone tried using Rclone and Nginx rules. This weekend I decided to play around with that idea. It seems too simple. Maybe I’m missing something? I’m not an expert when…
If you post something on X about a new WordPress fork – or even a hint of a fork – you’ll likely have your feed explode with feedback. Most of that attention is due to recent unpopular decisions from WordPress leadership, and not a desire to make something that can truly help WordPress. What…
Over the summer I created Disembark, which is a super simple way to generate a WordPress backup. There are plenty of existing tools for making a WordPress backup like ManageWP, WP Umbrella, Solid Backups, and so on. So why did I make my own? Well… to make backups easier. Most backup tools require upfront…
Elementor 3.26 was a big update and dropped support for outdated and deprecated code. This resulted in several compatibility issues relating to 3rd party addons made for Elementor. This is one of those rare updates, in which you need to be sure all of your other Elementor addons are fully up to date before…
There are plenty of options when it comes to optimizing your images. With Kinsta, a single click from their built in CDN and all images will be served out using the most optimization version. Jetpack plugin has a similar feature called Site Accelerator which utilizes WordPress.com’s CDN. What if you want options to do…