WooCommerce Subscriptions is great way to handle recurring subscriptions on WordPress. You can create a WooCommerce Subscription product out of the box, which allows your customers to purchase a subscription with automatic payments. If you want more control you can use WooCommerce like an invoicing system by manually creating subscriptions on the backend and…
Last November I switched my hosting renewals over to WooCommerce Subscription. I previously used Xero to handle all of my subscriptions via a repeat invoice, however it wasn’t really intended to handle my type of business. Also I just wanted to get my hands inside of WooCommerce for learning purposes. WooCommerce makes it really easy…
There is a new WordPress editor currently under development called Gutenburg. Once ready, it will replace how you edit pages and write posts within WordPress. It’s ironic because just last week I explained how I personally don’t use the WordPress editor and instead use WordPress.com to write my blog posts via Jetpack. Now for…
One year ago I made a commitment to post weekly on Anchor’s blog documenting my Adventures with WordPress & Business. I’ve been successful with no weeks missed! With that completed, I thought today would be good to write about the actual writing itself with WordPress. Using WordPress.com instead of the backend of WordPress Typically when…
For most people, image optimization doesn’t need to be all that complicated. If you want to take optimization beyond serving optimized images with Jetpack Photon then read on. Optimizing and downsizing all images with WP Smush Pro So most images don’t actually need optimized as they are never viewed or referenced by your website.…
WP Engine has a built-in staging site which is awesome, however sometimes troubleshooting requires more direct access. For those times, I like to take a WP Engine backup snapshot and restore locally on my Macbook Pro. For local development I manually configure my stack (apache, mysql, php, etc) following this blog post by Grav. One…
There are many benefits in converting your MySQL storage engine from MyISAM to InnoDB. Kinsta has a great write up on the topic: While you can do this manually per table, it’s not very practical if you have lots of tables to convert. The following commands will batch convert all MyISAM tables to InnoDB…
It’s recommend that you use a CDN with Kinsta. This is due to the fact that they charge overage fees on data transferred. Currently Kinsta doesn’t have a built-in CDN option however they have stated that they are working on a solution. Until then I recommend using KeyCDN with Kinsta. Setting up KeyCDN with Kinsta…
Moving WordPress sites between host providers is a fairly straightforward process. You generate a backup, import the backup, and reconfigure DNS to the new provider. With that said, doing it manually can take up a lot of time as there are lots of small steps in-between. The following is a collection of my own…
I use both WP Engine and Kinsta for hosting WordPress websites. Both companies provide excellent managed WordPress hosting. Now that I’ve been using Kinsta regularly for over 8 months I thought it would be a good time to do a comparison to WP Engine with whom I’ve been using for over 3 years. WP Engine…