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  • Introducing Quicksaves with Rollbacks

    Announcement

    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…

  • Learning Vue.js as a WordPress Developer Part 1 – Getting Started

    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…

  • The Best Migrations Happen Between Servers

    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…

  • Resolving Common Errors when Switching to HTTPS

    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…

  • Easily Manage Redirections within WordPress

    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…

  • Querying ACF Relationship Fields using REGEXP

    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…

  • One Time Scheduled WordPress Jobs

    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…

  • Building a Process Management System within WordPress

    Awhile back I built a process management system within WordPress. You can read about that here: https://anchor.host/using-wordpress-to-document-manage-business-processes/. Recently someone asked me how I built it, so I figured it’s time for…

  • Removing Query Strings from Static Resources

    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…

  • Avoiding HTTP double redirects with WP Engine

    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…