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  • Using Caddy for WordPress Local Development on Linux

    There are no shortage of options for managing WordPress sites locally. I really like the simplicity of both Local and DevKinsta and highly recommend them for the average user. For…

  • Revamped Billing Portal, New Agency Plan and Usage Pricing 💰

    I’m excited to share a few billing enhancements to Anchor Hosting. First off, if you’re an existing customer then check out the new billing section within https://anchor.host/account. It’s completely revamped…

  • Leaning Into The Direction That You Want To Go

    Thoughts

    This post marks 5 years of my weekly blog postings documenting my journey with WordPress and business. Everything I’ve done has been 100% bootstrapped. I’ve never taken any investment money…

  • Free Custom Domain Email Forwards

    If you want a custom domain email address, I typically will recommend that you use a reputable email provider like G Suite or Fastmail. However if you’re just starting getting…

  • WordPress Backups with Rclone and Restic

    Here at Anchor Hosting, I run incremental nightly backups for all customers, which are then stored on a B2 bucket. Incremental backups are lightweight and very cost effective. These backups…

  • Rclone Mount as a SFTP Client

    Transmit is my SFTP client of choice on MacOS. It’s been a year since I’ve transitioned away from MacOS and I’ve finally settled on a suitable cross platform replacement. Ironically…

  • Hijacking BNFW for Email Subscriptions

    A while back I wrote about using BNFW for email subscriptions. BNFW is my preferred way to send out WordPress blog posts as emails. It’s a clean and simple approach…

  • Renaming a Paid WordPress Plugin

    Last week I launched my summer side project, Stackable, and then a day later I completely rebranded to WP Freighter. You can read here on why I ended up changes…

  • Local WordPress Development on Linux

    I recently switched to a Linux laptop and have been pleasantly surprised with how well my development tools have continued to work. Linux might not be for everyone, however I…

  • Scanning for Website Errors with Lighthouse CLI

    WordPress is preparing to finally upgrade the bundled version of jQuery. The first step was completed as of WordPress 5.5 which was to remove jQuery migrate. That bumps the minimal…