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Lightning Fast WordPress Themes ⚡
When building WordPress websites for customers, I feel the best approach is to do a custom designed and developed theme using something like Underscores…
Configuring Vanity Nameservers
I’ve been using a premium DNS provider since 2014 and only recently switched to use vanity nameservers. This will be a walk through showing…
Consolidating Mailgun Accounts
On March 1st 2020, Mailgun will be phasing out their free tier. I’m a happy paying Mailgun customer. How is this going to affect…
Custom Development Without Child Theming Or Custom Plugins
Let’s say you want to use a simple WordPress theme like Blocksy, yet you want to add a bit of custom functionality. What are…
WordPress Routing Hacks for Single Page Applications
If you’ve ever attempted to bundle a Javascript single page application (SPA) inside of WordPress, you’ll likely run into the issue of routing. The…
Debugging Slow DNS Rollouts
Ever launch a new website and run into DNS delays? Ever curious what’s happening under the hood? Let’s take a closer look and DNS…
Downloading Backups From Previous Host Provider
Given the following scenario, you’ve just launched a new WordPress site by pointing DNS to the new server and you need to grab a…
Dynamically Load WordPress Database
The file wp-config.php defines configuration before WordPress is fully loaded, and includes things like database credentials and unique authentication keys. Did you know these…
Manually Merging Posts Between WordPress Sites
My recommendation has always been to avoid workflows that involve deploying staging to/from production. That’s because merging WordPress websites is really hard if not…
Digging into Mailgun’s API with PHP
Mailgun is a popular transactional email service which I use on many WordPress websites. They have an official WordPress plugin and documentation for developers.…