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  • WP Engine to Kinsta Bulk Migration Tips

    Last month I moved 100 WordPress sites from WP Engine to Kinsta. The following are some things I learned and recommendations for doing bulk migrations from WP Engine to Kinsta.…

  • All of the Small Things Kinsta Gets Right

    First off I’m a power user. I personally use both Kinsta and WP Engine for hosting my customer’s sites. They are both fantastic companies and have their own pros and…

  • Automatic Git Deploy with Kinsta via SSH

    Kinsta is my preferred WordPress host provider. This year I’ve switched all my new customers to Kinsta. Coming from WP Engine, one feature I miss is a per site git URL…

  • A Week with Windows 10 and Linux Subsystem for WordPress Development

    It’s been 10 years since I switched to Apple, coming from Windows. Having native access to unix tools via the terminal was what initially attracted me to the world of Mac.…

  • Speeding up Extracting a Site from Multisite

    Last year I wrote about Extracting a Site from Multisite. The real tedious part is manually moving themes, plugins and uploads relating to a particular subsite over to a standard…

  • Concurrent Site Monitor in Bash

    Something that’s important for every website is a site monitor, and a great tool for getting started is Jetpack Monitor. It’s free and sends out an email notification whenever downtime…

  • Removing Sensitive Data from Git Repos

    If you’ve ever worked with git for a WordPress project, you may at some point accidentally added private keys and other sensitive data into the repo. It’s easy to do…

  • Writing Personalized Scheduled Emails with WordPress

    There are many options for sending out email newsletters. Recently, I was reviewing various options for sending out my CaptainCore updates. At first I was tempted to just grab entries from…

  • Working with WP Engine’s Legacy Staging

    WP Engine is one of the main web hosts I use for Anchor Hosting. They recently announced new staging and development environments which will eventually make the existing staging site feature…

  • Argument List Too Long with WP-CLI

    When using command line applications, like WP-CLI, you may run into a scenario where you’re attempting to pass too much information via arguments. That will result in an error like…