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 API Part 5 – Decoupled Page Template My frontend development skills are getting dated.…
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 what that looks like and why I enjoy it so much. Step 1: Make…
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 few roadblocks when switching to https. Here are few recommendations when switching to HTTPS…
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 shown here. While there are times adding redirections directly to the web server are…
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 the meta_query to make a like comparisons. That unfortunately doesn’t work for complex (many to many) ACF…
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 While working to create an automated integration with Mailgun, I ran into a situation…
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 it everyday There are very few tools which make it into my daily workflow,…
Out of the box WordPress adds query strings to CSS and JavaScript files. This means that a stylesheet which typically looks like style.css is changed to style.css?ver=4.9.2. The version automatically updates with each WordPress release and helps with cache busting. WordPress developers can also easily change versions to something custom, like today’s date, when adding…
With HTTPS becoming a standard, redirecting your old http url typically works by selecting a checkbox. With WP Engine, select “Secure all URLs” within the SSL settings. Recently I discovered that a lot of these http urls were double redirecting. To explain let’s take a look at my personal site austinginder.com. Using CURL reveals the double…
One of the drawbacks of WP Engine’s implementations of SSH is the time it takes to create the SSH tunnel. While this has gotten significantly better it’s still slow enough that you really should avoid creating lots of individual connections. While that’s fine for running single long commands, you’ll need to get creative if you…