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  • Automating WP Engine’s User Portal with Ruby Script

    There is a Ruby gem called Mechanize which is a powerful library for automating web interactions. While playing around with it over the course of a weekend I ended up making the…

  • Bulk Domain Record Lookups with Bash

    Looking up domain records is a common daily task. Most of the time I use a website called MX Toolbox. That works great for single lookup. On occasion I need…

  • Injecting a custom mu-plugin for FTP deployments on WP Engine

    Sometimes FTP is your only option In a world where we have such amazing tools like WP-CLI it’s hard to imagine why you’d want to attempt scripting over FTP. WP Engine doesn’t allow SSH…

  • Manipulating Gravity Forms exports

    Gravity Forms is my go to form plugin for WordPress. Recently a client asked to change the address state field to use state codes (example: PA) rather then full states…

  • Protecting static files with PHP script and WP Engine

    There are many membership plugins for WordPress. A number of my customers run MemberPress which is a powerful and flexible membership plugin. I recently ran into a situation where images…

  • Syncing Large Data with Rclone

    Ever once in a while I find myself in a situation where I need to move a large amount of data between a cloud storage provider and my local computer. Like moving…

  • 5 Ways to Sink a Potentially Great Website

    The following was content for a presentation I did for Churchill Creative at their team meetup.  5 Ways to Sink a Potentially Great Website Make your menus as complicated as you can Overload your site…

  • Tracing Emails To Their Source Website

    Every now and again I get a real email but no idea who it’s for. It’s actually more common then I’d like to admit. The only thing identifiable is that…

  • Disconnecting from Jetpack via API

    Jetpack is one of those plugins I require on all of my sites. It’s a beast of a plugin with many modules. The two modules I always use are Stats…

  • Story About Bad Backups

    Backups are typically only considered when you need them. That’s generally not the best time to find out if the backup is any good. Any good backup system also involves some…