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Bulk Renaming Meta Fields
Most of the time when working with meta fields I’ll use Advanced Custom Fields. One place where I don’t use ACF is within CaptainCore…
Image Optimization for Web Servers
When it comes to image optimization, my go to WordPress plugin is WP Smush Pro. That said there are times I want to do…
Moving 500+ sites to Kinsta
Over the past 6 months I’ve worked with Kinsta to move over 500+ sites from WP Engine. This will be my official review and…
ACF Custom Fields Stored in Custom Table
Within CaptainCore, my WordPress management toolkit, I have a custom post type named captcore_website which stores site details via many ACF custom fields. The…
Extracting Stats from a Fathom Instance
Back in October of 2018 Fathom, the open source web analytics project, added support to track multiple websites per instance. Since then I’ve been…
WordPress as an Experimental Rclone HTTP Remote
Whenever I migrate WordPress sites I prefer that to be handled by a command line script. Well that’s not always possible often due to…
Bulk Processing WP Engine Usage Stats
WP Engine provides a downloadable CSV usage stats per site. This is great for seeing individual site activity however it’s not very useful for…
Removing Timthumb from a Custom Theme
Timthumb was a very popular php script for dynamically generating thumbnail images. That said it’s outdated and has performance issues when used with a…
WP Engine to Pantheon Migration
Recently I helped a customer move their site from WP Engine to Pantheon. Pantheon’s platform is quite different then WP Engine. During the process…
Reset WordPress to Default
A common customer request I get is to reset a WordPress staging site back to its default state. I’ve done this manually quite a…