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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.…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Switching to Linux

Less than a year ago I switched from a MacBook Pro to Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3. The Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL) was a big…

WordPress 5.5 Custom Code Compatibility Fixes

With WordPress 5.5 begins step #1 of a 3 phased approach for updating jQuery to the latest version. This is long over due. As…

Why I Pay 6 Figures to Kinsta 💰

I’m pretty open when it comes to running my business. Anchor Hosting resells other managed WordPress host providers, primarily Kinsta, and bundles in routine…