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  • A Week with Windows 10 and Linux Subsystem for WordPress Development

    It’s been 10 years since I switched to Apple, coming from Windows. Having native access to unix tools via the terminal was what initially attracted me to the world of Mac.…

  • Speeding up Extracting a Site from Multisite

    Last year I wrote about Extracting a Site from Multisite. The real tedious part is manually moving themes, plugins and uploads relating to a particular subsite over to a standard…

  • Concurrent Site Monitor in Bash

    Something that’s important for every website is a site monitor, and a great tool for getting started is Jetpack Monitor. It’s free and sends out an email notification whenever downtime…

  • Removing Sensitive Data from Git Repos

    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…

  • Writing Personalized Scheduled Emails with WordPress

    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…

  • Working with WP Engine’s Legacy Staging

    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…

  • Argument List Too Long with WP-CLI

    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…

  • My First Custom Table with WordPress

    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…

  • Magic Login Links for WordPress

    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…

  • Advantages & Disadvantages using SSH for WordPress Management

    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…