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  • Force Update Admin Email within WordPress Backend

    This happens all too often. I wake up to find random WordPress email notifications coming to me which should not be coming to me. After some fancy detective work to located…

  • Taking Over an Existing Google Analytics Profile

    When juggling WordPress sites between host providers and marketing agencies, it’s possible to misplace access to the Google Analytics profile. Rather then start fresh and losing historical tracking data, it’s…

  • Suspending Unpaid Hosting Customers

    It’s common practice, that if you don’t pay your web hosting services then your website will be suspended. I’m going go over the technicals of how I handle website suspensions…

  • Collecting Less Tracking Info

    With the recent GDPR requirements, small business website owners have been left to review their business practices in order to make sure they remain compliant. Kinsta did great job at…

  • Backblaze B2 as a Time Machine Backup

    I recently switched over to Backblaze B2 to store my website backups, and it’s been a great experience. Each B2 bucket has its own lifecycle rules which determines how long to…

  • Export certain posts with WP-CLI

    Did you know it’s possible to export certain posts using WP-CLI? I didn’t, but a big thanks to Daniel Bachhuber for pointing me in the right direction. That led to my…

  • Safely Remove Dates from WordPress Permalinks

    I’m not sure if this is a growing trend, but I recently decided to drop the dates from my blog post URLs. Previously I was using the day and name…

  • Exploring Fathom Analytics

    In terms of web analytics, Google Analytics dominates. I’ve tried some of the open source alternatives (see below from wiki) however I haven’t been very impressed. Most of them are difficult…

  • WordPress Maintenance Mode over SSH

    WordPress has a built in maintenance mode. You’ve most likely seen it at some point while updating WordPress, themes or plugins. While meant to protect WordPress from itself while doing…

  • 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…